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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
A distributed generation system involves small amounts of generation located on a utility's distribution system for the purpose of meeting local (substation level) peak loads and/or displacing the need to build additional (or upgrade) local distribution lines.
Industry:Energy
(1) (Regulatory) The amount of money that an electric utility would need to spend for the next increment of electric generation to produce or purchase elsewhere the power that it instead buys from a co-generator or small-power producer. Federal law establishes broad guidelines for determining how much a qualifying facility (QF) gets paid for power sold to the utility. (2) The cost the utility would incur but for the existence of an independent generator or other energy service option. Avoided cost rates have been used as the power purchase price utilities offer independent suppliers (see Qualifying Facilities).
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One thousand megawatts (1,000 MW) or, one million kilowatts (1,000,000 kW) or one billion watts (1,000,000,000 watts) of electricity. One gigawatt is enough to supply the electric demand of about one million average California homes.
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The delivery of electricity to the retail customer's home or business through low voltage distribution lines.
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The angular distance between true south and the point on the horizon directly below the sun. Typically used as an input for opaque surfaces and windows in computer programmes for calculating the energy performance of buildings.
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One million kilowatt-hours of electric power. California's electric utilities generated a total of about 302,072 gigawatt-hours in 2007.
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The substations, transformers and lines that convey electricity from high-power transmission lines to ultimate consumers. See GRID.
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A Scheduling Coordinator's schedule is balanced when generation, adjusted for transmission losses, equals demand.
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The regulated electric utility entity that constructs and maintains the distribution wires connecting the transmission grid to the final customer. The Disco can also perform other services such as aggregating customers, purchasing power supply and transmission services for customers, billing customers and reimbursing suppliers, and offering other regulated or non-regulated energy services to retail customers. The "wires" and "customer service" functions provided by a distribution utility could be split so that two totally separate entities are used to supply these two types of distribution services.
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A device that provides starting voltage and limits the current during normal operation in electrical discharge lamps (such as fluorescent lamps).
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