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A condition that occurs when insufficient transmission capacity is available to implement all of the desired transactions simultaneously.
Industry:Energy
A condition that occurs when insufficient transfer capacity is available to implement all of the preferred schedules for electricity transmission simultaneously.
Industry:Energy
The sum of the continuous ratings or the capacities for a system, part of a system, or a customer's electric power consuming apparatus.
Industry:Energy
The physical connection (e.g.,transmission lines, transformers, switch gear, etc.) between two electric systems permitting the transfer of electric energy in one or both directions.
Industry:Energy
The direct process end use in which electricity is used to cause a chemical transformation. Major uses of electrochemical process occur in the aluminum industry in which alumina is reduced to molten aluminum metal and oxygen, and in the alkalies and chlorine industry, in which brine is separated into caustic soda, chlorine, and hydrogen.
Industry:Energy
A program in which autility company furnishes home weatherization services free or at reduced cost or provides free or low cost devices for saving energy,such as energy efficient light bulbs, flow restrictors, weather stripping, and water heater insulation.
Industry:Energy
Anthropogenic releases of gases to the atmosphere. In the context of global climate change, they consist of radiatively important greenhouse gases (e.g., the release of carbondioxide during fuel combustion).
Industry:Energy
An energy-consuming subsector of the industrial sector that consists of all facilities and equipment used to perform land preparation and construct, renovate, alter, install, maintain, or repair major infrastructure or individual systems therein. Infrastructure includes buildings; industrial plants; and other major structures, such as tanks, towers, monuments, roadways, tunnels, bridges, dams, pipelines, and transmission lines.
Industry:Energy
A unique value for scaling emissions to activity data in terms of a standard rate of emissions per unit of activity (e.g., pounds of carbon dioxide emitted per Btu of fossil fuel consumed).
Industry:Energy
The money directly spent by consumers to purchase energy. Expenditures equal the amount of energy used by the consumer multiplied by the price per unit paid by the consumer.
Industry:Energy