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California Energy Commission
Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
refers to practice by utilities of allotting funds invested in utility Research Development Demonstration and Commercialization and other programs from rate-payers, as opposed to allocating these costs to shareholders.
Industry:Energy
Coal, natural gas, wood or other fuel that is used in the form in which it is found in nature, without chemical processing.
Industry:Energy
A device in which a controlled nuclear chain reaction can be maintained, producing heat energy.
Industry:Energy
The competitive generation market controlled and coordinated by the ISO for arranging real-time imbalance energy.
Industry:Energy
The instantaneous pricing of electricity based on the cost of the electricity available for use at the time the electricity is demanded by the customer.
Industry:Energy
Lubricating oil that is processed to be used over again.
Industry:Energy
The sensible cooling of air that has been previously heated by HVAC systems serving the same building. (See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2-5302)
Industry:Energy
Reused heat or energy that otherwise would be lost. For example, a combined cycle power plant recaptures some of its own waste heat and reuses it to make extra electric power.
Industry:Energy
(Thermal efficiency) Ia water heater, a measure of the percentage of heat from the combustion of gas which is transferred to the water as measured under specified test conditions. California Code of Regulations, Section 2- 1602(e)(7).
Industry:Energy
means any person who owns, operates, or controls the operations of one or more refineries.
Industry:Energy