- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
The sum to be paid by a large electricity consumer for its peak usage level.
Industry:Energy
The services other than scheduled energy that are required to maintain system reliability and meet WSCC/NERC operating criteria. Such services include spinning, non-spinning, and replacement reserves, voltage control, and black start capability.
Industry:Energy
Synthetic gas used for heating or cooling. It has less energy content than pipeline-quality gas.
Industry:Energy
The methods used to manage energy demand including energy efficiency, load management, fuel substitution and load building. See LOAD MANAGEMENT.
Industry:Energy
The angle that the sun's rays make with a line perpendicular to a surface. The angle of incidence determines the percentage of direct sunshine intercepted by a surface.
Industry:Energy
Planning, implementation, and evaluation of utility-sponsored programs to influence the amount or timing of customers' energy use.
Industry:Energy
Process of obtaining energy from animal wastes. This is a type of biomass energy.
Industry:Energy
The means for obtaining usable, fissionable material from spent reactor fuel.
Industry:Energy
The application and integration of a new product or service into an existing or new system. Most commonly, demonstration involves the construction and operation of a new electric technology interconnected with the electric utility system to demonstrate how it interacts with the system. This includes the impacts the technology may have on the system and the impacts that the larger utility system might have on the functioning of the technology.
Industry:Energy
