- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
Any person who produces natural gas in amounts determined by the commission as having a major effect on energy supplies.
Industry:Energy
A unit of measure of electric power at a point in time, as capacity or demand. One watt of power maintained over time is equal to one joule per second. Some Christmas tree lights use one watt. The Watt is named after Scottish inventor James Watt and is capitalised when shortened to w and used with other abbreviations, as in kWh.
Industry:Energy
Means any person who produces oil in amount determined by the commission as having a major effect on energy supplies.
Industry:Energy
One watt of power expended for one hour. One thousandth of a kilowatt-hour.
Industry:Energy
Specially designed strips, seals and gaskets installed around doors and windows to limit air leakage.
Industry:Energy
In the utility context, the cost to the utility of providing the next (marginal)kilowatt-hour of electricity, irrespective of sunk costs.
Industry:Energy
The temperature at which water, by evaporating into air, can bring the air to saturation at the same temperature. Wet-bulb temperature is measured by a wet-bulb psychrometer.
Industry:Energy
The price at which supply equals demand. The Day Ahead and Hour Ahead Markets.
Industry:Energy
The transmission of electricity by an entity that does not own or directly use the power it is transmitting. Wholesale wheeling is used to indicate bulk transactions in the wholesale market, whereas retail wheeling allows power producers direct access to retail customers. This term is often used colloquially as meaning transmission.
Industry:Energy
