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Industrie: Energy
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An expenditure or expense that does not vary with volume level of activity.
Industry:Energy
The equivalent of 24 hours offull power operation by a reactor. The number of full power days in aspecific cycle is the product of the reactor's capacity factor and thelength of the cycle.
Industry:Energy
Costs other than those associated with capital investment that do not vary with the operation, such as maintenance and payroll.
Industry:Energy
Operation of a unit at 100percent of its design capacity. Full-power operation precedes commercialoperation.
Industry:Energy
Gas disposed of by burning in flares usually at the production sites or at gas processing plants.
Industry:Energy
A wholesale consumer without other generating resources whose electric energy seller is the sole source of long-term firm power for the consumer's service area. The terms and conditions of sale are equivalent to the seller's obligations to its own retail service, if any.
Industry:Energy
See flared.
Industry:Energy
A vent from which gas or steam issue; a geyser or spring that emits gases.
Industry:Energy
An electric rate schedule consisting of two components, the first of which is a service charge and the second a price for the energy consumed.
Industry:Energy
The part of a boiler or warm-air space-heating plant in which combustion takes place.
Industry:Energy