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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
A unit of work or energy equal to the amount of work done when the point of application of force of 1 newton is displaced 1 metre in the direction of the force. It takes 1,055 joules to equal a British thermal unit. It takes about 1 million joules to make a pot of coffee.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of the radiation absorbed by a surface to the total energy falling on that surface described as a percentage.
Industry:Energy
Power capacity or energy that a utility is required by contract to supply outside of its own service area and not covered by general rate schedules.
Industry:Energy
Cogeneration means the sequential use of energy for the production of electrical and useful thermal energy. The sequence can be thermal use followed by power production or the reverse, subject to the following standards: (a) At least 5 percent of the cogeneration project's total annual energy output shall be in the form of useful thermal energy. (b) Where useful thermal energy follows power production, the useful annual power output plus one-half the useful annual thermal energy output equals not less than 42.5 percent of any natural gas and oil energy input.
Industry:Energy
Certain colorless, low-sulfur oil products that burn without producing much smoke.
Industry:Energy
A charge paid by all market participants withdrawing energy from the ISO controlled grid. The access charge will recover the portion of a utility's transmission revenue requirement not recovered through the variable usage charge.
Industry:Energy
Voltage levels higher than those normally used on transmission lines. Generally EHV is considered to be 345,000 volts or higher.
Industry:Energy
Cogenerators use the waste heat created by one process, for example during manufacturing, to produce steam which is used, in turn, to spin a turbine and generate electricity. Cogenerators may also be QFs.
Industry:Energy
One-thousand volts (1,000). Distribution lines in residential areas usually are 12 kv (12,000 volts).
Industry:Energy
Solar radiation used by special equipment to provide space heating, hot water or electricity.
Industry:Energy
