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Oil market jargon for residual fuel oils.
Industry:Energy
A situation in which the market is dominated by buyers, who ‘accumulate’ the commodity they are trading.
Industry:Energy
Crude oil swap, tied to published price assessments, which exchanges floating short-term risk for fixed risk.
Industry:Energy
Theory that market prices move randomly around a main trend, in other words, that the volatility is arbitrary.
Industry:Energy
A measure of energy equal to 1 watt second.
Industry:Energy
WTI crude is deemed to be traded at Cushing, Oklahoma. Traders typically refer to the NYMEX Light Sweet Crude futures contract as the WTI contract, although the contract allows delivery of other grades.
Industry:Energy
An amount of EUAs set aside under the EU ETS to allow for new CO2 emitting facilities.
Industry:Energy
A US federal agency created in 1977 to regulate, among other things, interstate wholesale gas and transportation of gas and electricity at "just and reasonable" rates. Located in Washington.
Industry:Energy
A powerful greenhouse gas used in high voltage electrical insulation, and in medical applications, among others.
Industry:Energy
Light load hours. The time of the day when an power system would experience its lightest load, usually in the middle of the night.
Industry:Energy