- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
The portion of total energy resources that is known and can be recovered with presently available technology at an affordable cost.
Industry:Energy
Potential cancer-causing agents in the environment. They include among others: industrial chemical compounds found in food additives, pesticides and fertilizers, drugs, toy, household cleaners, toiletries and paints. Naturally occurring ultraviolet solar radiation is also a carcinogen.
Industry:Energy
Generally refers to the recharging and refuelling network necessary to successful development, production, commercialization and operation of alternative fuel vehicles, including fuel supply, public and private recharging and refuelling facilities, standard specifications for refuelling outlets, customer service, education and training, and building code regulations.
Industry:Energy
A refinery process that converts a high-boiling range fraction of petroleum (gas oil) to gasoline, olefin feed for alkylation, distillate, fuel oil and fuel gas by use of a catalyst and heat.
Industry:Energy
Forcing gas or water into an oil well to increase pressure and cause more oil to come to the surface. See THERMALLY ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY.
Industry:Energy
The state law that directs California electric utility companies to gather a state energy surcharge per kilowatt hour of electricity consumed by a customer. These funds are used for operation of the California Energy Commission. As of January 1, 2004, the surcharge is set at of three-tenths of one mil ($0.0003) per kilowatt-hour
Industry:Energy
Material used to make an air-tight seal by filling in cracks, such as those around windows and doors.
Industry:Energy
An experimental means of recovering hard-to-get petroleum by burning some of the oil in its natural underground reservoir. Also called FIREFLOODING.
Industry:Energy
Policy that considers the risk of dependence on fuel sources located in remote and unstable regions of the world and the benefits of domestic and diverse fuel sources.
Industry:Energy
