- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
An Independent Power Producer (IPP) generates power that is purchased by an electric utility at wholesale prices. The utility then resells this power to end-use customers. Although IPPs generate power, they are not franchised utilities, government agencies or QFs. IPPs usually do not own transmission lines to transmit the power that they generate.
Industry:Energy
The amount of energy consumed in the form in which it is acquired by the user. The term excludes electrical generation and distribution losses.
Industry:Energy
A secondary market for capacity that is contracted by a customer which is not using all of its capacity.
Industry:Energy
Power and heat derived from sources native to California. These include geothermal, hydro, biomass, solar and wind energy. The term usually is understood to include cogeneration facilities.
Industry:Energy
Using less energy/electricity to perform the same function. Programs designed to use electricity more efficiently: doing the same with less. For the purpose of this paper, energy efficiency is distinguished from DSM programs in that the latter are utility-sponsored and -financed, while the former is a broader term not limited to any particular sponsor or funding source. "Energy conservation" is a term which has also been used but it has the connotation of doing without in order to save energy rather than using less energy to do the some thing and so is not used as much today. Many people use these terms interchangeably.
Industry:Energy
A customer who does not have realistic alternatives to buying power from the local utility, even if that customer had the legal right to buy from competitors.
Industry:Energy
A colorless, odorless, non-poisonous gas that is a normal part of the air. Carbon dioxide, also called CO2, is exhaled by humans and animals and is absorbed by green growing things and by the sea.
Industry:Energy
A control system (often computerized) designed to regulate the energy consumption of a building by controlling the operation of energy consuming systems, such as the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), lighting and water heating systems.
Industry:Energy
