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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Industri: Energy
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Assistance from the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance programme (LIHEAP). The purpose of LIHEAP is to assist eligible households to meet the costs of home energy, i.e., a source of heating or cooling residential buildings.
Industry:Energy
The wholesales, purchase, and interchange of electricity among electric utilities. Bulk power transactions are used by electric utilities for many different aspects of electric utility operations, from maintaining load to reducing costs.
Industry:Energy
The household received services free, or at a reduced cost, from the Federal, State, or local Government. Any of the following services could have been received: * Insulation in the attic, outside wall, or basement/crawlspace below the floor of the house * Insulation around the hot water heater * Repair of broken windows or doors to keep out the cold or hot weather * Weather stripping or caulking around any windows or doors to the outside * Storm doors or windows added * Repair of broken furnace * Furnace tune up and/or modifications * Other home energy-saving devices.
Industry:Energy
Wholesale sales of gasoline in individual transactions which exceed the size of a truckload.
Industry:Energy
Natural gas that occurs in crude oil reservoirs either as free gas (associated) or as gas in solution with crude oil (dissolved gas). Also see Natural gas.
Industry:Energy
A facility used primarily for the storage and/or marketing of petroleum products, which has a total bulk storage capacity of less than 50,000 barrels and receives its petroleum products by tank car or truck.
Industry:Energy
A facility used primarily for the storage and/or marketing of petroleum products, which has a total bulk storage capacity of 50,000 barrels or more and/or receives petroleum products by tanker, barge, or pipeline.
Industry:Energy
The refining process of separating crude oil components at atmospheric pressure by heating to temperatures of about 600 degrees to 750 degrees Fahrenheit (depending on the nature of the crude oil and desired products) and subsequent condensing of the fractions by cooling.
Industry:Energy
A means of operation whereby energy, transmission, and distribution services, as well as ancillary and retail services, are provided by one entity.
Industry:Energy
A surface mine in which the coal bed is removed by means of a large diameter drill. Usually operated only when the overburden becomes too thick for economical strip mining.
Industry:Energy