- Industrie: Energy
- Number of terms: 9078
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- Company Profile:
California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
An entity, including a Scheduling Coordinator, who participates in the energy marketplace through the buying, selling, transmission, or distribution of energy or ancillary services into, out of, or through the ISO-controlled grid.
Industry:Energy
A system capable of cooling a house by exhausting a large volume of warm air when the outside air is cool.
Industry:Energy
The process of increasing the percentage of pure uranium above the levels found in naturally occurring uranium ore, so that it may be used as fuel.
Industry:Energy
A price set by the mutual decisions of many buyers and sellers in a competitive market.
Industry:Energy
A system whereby a distributor of power would have the option to buy its power from a variety of power producers, and the power producers would be able to compete to sell their power to a variety of distribution companies.
Industry:Energy
A regulated entity which exhibits the characteristics of a natural monopoly. For the purposes of electric industry restructuring, "utility" refers to the regulated, vertically-integrated electric company. "Transmission utility" refers to the regulated owner/operator of the transmission system only. "Distribution utility" refers to the regulated owner/operator of the distribution system which serves retail customers.
Industry:Energy
An agent for generation projects who markets power on behalf of the generator.The marketer may also arrange transmission, firming or other ancillary services as needed. Though a marketer may perform many of the same functions as a broker, the difference is that a marketer represents the generator while a broker acts as a middleman.
Industry:Energy
The purchase and sale of electricity from generators to resellers (who sell to retail customers) along with the ancillary services needed to maintain reliability and power quality at the transmission level.
Industry:Energy
A common term for gas that bubbles to the surface of the water in a marsh or swamp. It is colorless, odorless and can be explosive.
Industry:Energy
The transmission of electric energy sold, or to be sold, at wholesale in interstate commerce (from EPAct).
Industry:Energy
