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A class of ownership found in the electric power industry where the utility is regulated and authorised to achieve an allowed rate of return.
Industry:Energy
A lending agency of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the REA makes self-liquidating loans to qualified borrowers to finance electric and telephone service to rural areas. The REA finances the construction and operation of generating plants, electric transmission and distribution lines, or systems for the furnishing of initial and continued adequate electric services to persons in rural areas not receiving central station service.
Industry:Energy
The difference between total movements into and total movements out of each PAD District by pipeline, tanker, and barge.
Industry:Energy
The period of time between a plant's initial fuel loading date and its date of first commercial operation (including the low-power testing period). Plants in the first operating cycle (the time from initial fuel loading to the first refueling), which lasts approximately 2 years, operate at an average capacity factor of about 40 percent.
Industry:Energy
An equity's earnings available for common stockholders calculated as a percentage of its common equity capital.
Industry:Energy
An installation used by trunk and gathering pipeline companies, crude oil producers, and terminal operators (except refineries) to store crude oil.
Industry:Energy
Components that are not associated with a particular fuel. These include, but are not limited to, control spiders, burnable poison rod assemblies, control rodelements, thimble plugs, fission chambers, primary and secondary neutron sources, and BWR (boiling water reactor) channels.
Industry:Energy
Reserves or resources for which tonnage and grade are computed partly from specific measurements, samples, or production data and partly from projection for a reasonable distance on the basis of geological evidence. The sites available are too widely or otherwise in appropriately spaced to permit the mineral bodies to be outlined completely or the grade established throughout.
Industry:Energy
The shippable product of a coal mine or preparation plant. Depending on customer specifications, salable coal may be run-of-mine, crushed-and-screened (sized) coal, or the clean coal yield from a preparation plant.
Industry:Energy
A circuit connecting two Balancing Authority Areas. Also, describes circuits within an individual electrical system.
Industry:Energy
