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Natural Gas Service Providers and
Their Consumers in Nebraska

2005

In 2005, the state had 566,649 natural gas consumers supplied by 21 companies.  Four of the companies were investor-owned, and 17 companies were consumer-owned.  Nearly 60 percent of Nebraska's customers were supplied by investor-owned companies, and 40 percent were supplied by consumer-owned companies.

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Nebraska's Natural Gas Consumer Count
by Company and by Sector

2005

Company Type of
Company
Consumers
Commercial Electric
Power
Industrial Residential Total
State of Nebraska 57,389 7 7,974 501,279 566,649
Alma Natural Gas Company, City of Consumer-Owned 98 NA NA 451 549
Aquila Inc. Investor-Owned 19,127 NA 290 170,951 190,368
Central City Gas Department Consumer-Owned 167 NA 3 1,090 1,260
Falls City, City of Consumer-Owned 244 1 17 1,911 2,173
Fremont Department of Utilities Consumer-Owned 1,181 1 29 9,494 10,705
Hastings Utilities Consumer-Owned 1,231 2 38 9,246 10,517
Kinder Morgan Inc. Investor-Owned 12,962 NA 7,255 73,468 93,685
Lyons, City of Consumer-Owned 63 NA NA 415 478
Metropolitan Utilities District of Omaha Consumer-Owned 16,134 1 90 185,129 201,354
MidAmerican Energy Company Investor-Owned 510 NA 12 3,954 4,476
Nebraska City Utilities Consumer-Owned 516 1 3 3,875 4,395
Northwestern Energy Investor-Owned 4,304 NA 227 36,766 41,297
Pender, Village of Consumer-Owned 112 NA NA 464 576
Ponca Public Utilities Consumer-Owned 53 NA NA 332 385
Scribner Utilities, City of Consumer-Owned 65 NA NA 338 403
Stromsburg, City of Consumer-Owned 80 NA 1 422 503
Stuart Gas Company Consumer-Owned 33 1 3 187 224
Superior, City of Consumer-Owned 165 NA 3 952 1,120
Trailblazer Pipeline Company Consumer-Owned NA NA 1 NA 1
Wahoo, City of Consumer-Owned 257 NA 1 1,424 1,682
Wisner Natural Gas System Consumer-Owned 87 NA 1 410 498

Sources: Form EIA-176, Annual Report of Natural and Supplemental Gas Supply and Disposition. Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC.  Nebraska Energy Office, Lincoln, NE.

Notes: The consumer count is for natural gas delivered directly to the type of consumer or for natural gas transported and delivered to the type of consumer for the account of others. NA = Not Applicable.

This table was completed on April 4, 2007.

Typically, there is one year between updates.