Distributed generation by utility

Period

2024

One row is

programme (net metering or not) x utility x state x balancing authority x customer class x technology class, at the report year

Built from source rows of

utility x state x balancing authority x customer class x technology class x report year

Evidence and method

reported · directUtility-reported net-metered distributed capacity/customers/energy sold to utility; no locations; excluded from the EIA-860 plant inventory (>= 1 MW). 'total' and 'all_storage' rows and virtual_pv sub-classes are rollups and are never summed.

Origin

U.S. EIA Form 861 net metering schedule (utility x state x BA x customer class x technology class x year) ↗Source notice and licenceLicence: CC-BY-4.0

Built from source rows of

utility x state x balancing authority x customer class x technology class x report year

Evidence and method

reported · directUtility-reported distributed capacity not under net metering; EIA renamed the schedule in 2016 to prevent double counting with net metering. Overlap with EIA-860 units >= 1 MW is possible and is disclosed, not resolved.

Origin

U.S. EIA Form 861 non-net-metering distributed generation schedule (utility x state x BA x customer class x technology class x year) ↗Source notice and licenceLicence: CC-BY-4.0

Edition in this release

PUDL v2026.9.0 (embedded 2026.8.1.dev50) · core_eia861__yearly_net_metering_customer_fuel_class · retrieved 2026-09-29PUDL v2026.9.0 (embedded 2026.8.1.dev50) · core_eia861__yearly_non_net_metering_customer_fuel_class · retrieved 2026-09-29

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• Listed without a reported value · capacityRows with no value for this measure; published as null, never zero
  3,170 rows
• Listed without a reported value · storage energyRows with no value for this measure; published as null, never zero
  777 rows
• Listed without a reported value · customersRows with no value for this measure; published as null, never zero
  2,196 rows
• Listed without a reported value · sold to utilityRows with no value for this measure; published as null, never zero
  2,490 rows
• Not applicable · storage energyRows where is_storage is false and that carry no value; the measure does not apply to them
  3,432 rows
• Not applicable · customers, sold to utilityRows where program = 'net_metering' is false and that carry no value; the measure does not apply to them
  1,440 rows
• Short-form filers not identifiable in the sourceRows from Form EIA-861S respondents. The net-metering source flags short-form rows true in report year 2019 only and leaves the flag blank elsewhere, and the non-net-metering source has no flag; the table keeps it as the sources have it, so it cannot count them for the comparison year.
  Not computedthe sources leave short_form blank on every row outside report year 2019
• No row in the sourceUtilities with no row here. A utility with no distributed generation leaves the schedules blank, and EIA's unitemized rows (utility 99999) name no utility, so the table cannot tell a utility with none from one that did not report.
  Not computedthe sources do not list the utilities behind their unitemized rows

Publisher

Form EIA-861 is EIA's Annual Electric Power Industry Report, a census of all United States electric utilities. Its page lists releases of two kinds: early release data and final data.www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/ ↗

Delay

On the checked date EIA's page gave a release date of August 4, 2026 for early release data and listed the next release as October 2026 for final data; its file list marked 2025 as early release and 2024 as final data, updated December 3, 2025.www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/ ↗

This atlas

The atlas reads EIA-861 through PUDL, which Catalyst Cooperative publishes as quarterly versioned releases. Each atlas release pins one PUDL version, named under edition; the table changes only when that pin moves. No timed refresh.docs.catalyst.coop/pudl/en/v2026.9.0/data_access.html ↗

• keys.distributed_unique{"distinct":4288,"rows":4288}
  Passed
• distributed.rollup_consistency[{"leaf_sum_mw":178.012,"source_total_row_mw":178.055,"state":"ID"},{"leaf_sum_mw":80.781,"source_total_row_mw":81.054,"state":"MT"},{"leaf_sum_mw":457.769,"source_total_row_mw":457.997,"state":"OR"},{"leaf_sum_mw":494.874,"source_total_row_mw":497.186,"state":"WA"}]
  Passed

No corrections apply to this dataset in this release. Earlier editions: not available (earlier releases did not retain per-dataset edition comparisons).