Michigan's net metering program is being recognized as one of the nation's best.
The program allows customers with wind turbines and other power generators to feed electricity back to the grid.
The Network for New Energy Choices gave Michigan's net metering program an 'A' for 2010, a big improvement over the 'F' it received in 2008.
The program allows customers to generate their own electricity, and then sell excess power back to their utility.
"You are not incurring cost, you are in fact making a little money on that," said Judy Palnau with the Michigan Public Service Commission.
According to Palnau, a variety of technologies can feed power back to the grid.
"We're talking mostly now about wind, or perhaps solar," she said. "When that person produces an excess of electricity, in other words they're meeting all their own needs and yet they're producing more, that extra then will go back on the grid and at that point, the utility, in a sense, is buying back that power from the customers."
Any power a consumer provides to a utility shows up as a credit on the customer's next monthly bill.
The legislature created Michigan's current net metering program in 2008.
On the Web:
Michigan's Net Metering Program- http://www.michigan.gov/mpsc/0,1607,7-159-16393_38274---,00.html