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The net capability of main generating units that is unavailable for load for emergency reasons.
Industry:Energy
A price chart pattern that looks like a flag-pole with a rectangular 'flag' hanging off it. It is often seen as a sign that the trend is likely to continue after a brief consolidation.
Industry:Energy
The part of a generating unit usually consisting of a series of curved vanes or blades on a central spindle, which is spun by the force of water, steam or hot gas to drive an electricity generator.
Industry:Energy
When prices trade at similar levels over a period of time, the chart becomes cluttered with business at these levels and is referred to as 'congested'. Congestion areas are often seen as providing support/resistance. They are the levels at which, rather than breaking into new ground, prices tend to bog down and become trapped.
Industry:Energy
Facility that moves gas through transmission lines or into storage by creating pressure differentials. Most stations use some of the gas moving through the line as fuel.
Industry:Energy
An option which has no intrinsic value. A put option is out-of-the-money when its strike price is below the value of the underlying futures contract. A call option is out-of-the money when its strike price is above that of an the underlying futures contract.
Industry:Energy
Nuclear reactors may be divided into two main types, fast and thermal.
A fast reactor is a reactor in which the fission chain reaction is sustained with high-energy or high-speed (ie fast) neutrons. It is capable of converting unused fertile uranium-238 into fissile plutonium, a process known as breeding on fast breeder reactors
A thermal reactor is a reactor in which the fission chain reaction is sustained with moderated (slow or "thermal") neutrons. There are four main types in use: light water reactors, which account for over 90% of those in operation; CANDU pressurized heavy water reactors; gas-cooled reactors (GCR, and ACR); and the RBMK light water graphite reactor.
Industry:Energy
Usually held in conjunction with the COP (Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC).
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