- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
Amount of money necessary to own, operate and maintain a building over its useful life.
Industry:Energy
The floor area of enclosed conditioned spaces on all floors measured from the interior surfaces of exterior partitions for nonresidential buildings and from the exterior surfaces of exterior partitions for residential buildings. (See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2-5302)
Industry:Energy
Rates charged by a utility company for the low income, the disadvantaged and senior citizens. The rates provide a discount for minimum necessary utilities, such as electricity requirements of typically 300 to 400 kilowatt/hours per month.
Industry:Energy
Enclosed space that is either directly conditioned space or indirectly conditioned space. (See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2-5302)
Industry:Energy
A nuclear power unit that uses ordinary water to cool its core. The LWR may be a boiling water reactor or a pressurized water reactor.
Industry:Energy
An enclosed space that is provided with heating equipment that has a capacity exceeding 10 Btus/(hr-ft2), or with cooling equipment that has a capacity exceeding 10 Btus/(hr-ft2). An exception is if the heating and cooling equipment is designed and thermostatically controlled to maintain a process environment temperature less than 65 degrees Fahrenheit or greater than 85 degrees Fahrenheit for the whole space the equipment serves. (See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2- 5302)
Industry:Energy
Brownish black coal having qualities in between those of bituminous coal and peat. The texture of the original wood often is visible in lignite.
Industry:Energy
Enclosed space that: (1) has a greater area weighted heat transfer coefficient (u-value) between it and directly conditioned spaces than between it and the outdoors or unconditioned space; (2) has air transferred from directly conditioned space moving through it at a rate exceeding three air changes per hour.
Industry:Energy
The process of making synthetic liquid fuel from coal. The term also is used to mean a method for making large amounts of gasoline and heating oil from petroleum.
Industry:Energy
The quantity of heat, in Btu's, that will flow through one square foot of material in one hour, when there is a 1 degree F temperature difference between both surfaces. Conductance values are given for a specific thickness of material, not per inch thickness.
Industry:Energy
