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Estimated U.S. Net Metering Customers by State and Customer Class                                        
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Table 64. Estimated U.S. Net Metering Customers by State and Customer Class, 2004 and 2005
State Electric Industry Participants 2005ª 2005 2004
Residential Non-Residential Total Total
  Alabama 2 1 12 13 13
  Alaska          
  Arizona 5 145 7 152 43
  Arkansas 2 4 1 5 3
  California 18 16,134 1,293 17,427 13,506
  Colorado 10 132 13 145 87
  Connecticut 2 64 11 75 31
  Delaware 1 12 8 20  
  District of Columbia          
  Florida 5 21 8 29 30
  Georgia 1 1 0 1 2
  Hawaii 4 90 8 98 46
  Idaho 3 18 3 21 19
  Illinois 4 1 7 8 2
  Indiana 2 8 8 16 16
  Iowa 5 10 6 16 8
  Kansas 3 7 4 11 10
  Kentucky 3 1 2 3 2
  Louisiana          
  Maine 1 2 6 8  
  Maryland 5 8 1 9 9
  Massachusetts 4 226 20 246 170
  Michigan 2 5 2 7 5
  Minnesota 25 177 16 193 233
  Mississippi         1
  Missouri 3 3 2 5 2
  Montana 2 177 76 253 186
  Nebraska          
  Nevada 2 178 10 188 100
  New Hampshire 4 65 28 93 81
  New Jersey 2 550 54 604 307
  New Mexico 5 9 7 16 11
  New York 2 88 42 130 87
  North Carolina         1
  North Dakota 2 4 0 4 4
  Ohio 5 21 10 31 18
  Oklahoma 2 3 27 30 31
  Oregon 9 301 40 341 232
  Pennsylvania 4 106 28 134 89
  Rhode Island 2 62 19 81 25
  South Carolina          
  South Dakota          
  Tennessee         7
  Texas 7 152 11 163 16
  Utah 2 26 4 30 10
  Vermont 5 149 15 164 67
  Virginia 9 26 2 28 19
  Washington 11 73 23 96 73
  West Virginia 1 0 1 1 1
  Wisconsin 9 176 64 240 212
  Wyoming 5 8 3 11 11
Total 188 19,244 1,902 21,146 15,826
a Includes entities with net metering programs in more than one state.
Note: Non-residential may include some customers for whom no customer class is specified. Blank cells indicate no data was reported for the state or the number of customers in a class was zero. Totals may not equal the sum of the components due to independent rounding.
Source: Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861, "Annual Electric Power Industry Report."