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Article: Vital Signs: NRECA's annual Summary of distribution cooperative data.(National Rural Electric Cooperative Association )
- Article from:
- Management Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Vital Signs, first produced in 1985, is an annual analysis of the data reported by rural electric systems from the end of the previous calendar year.
This year's data (2003) is based on 605 RUS borrowers and 174 CFC borrowers for a total of 779 rural electric distribution systems. All data is treated confidentially and no individual data is released or published. A more extensive graphical depiction of the trends shown can be found at: http://www.cooperative.com/library/coopfacts/data/vital.htm
AMERICA'S ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE NETWORK
During 2003 electric cooperatives posted an average customer growth rate of 2.2%
HIGH CONSUMER GROWTH ...