- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 9078
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
A system that heats a space using hot water which may be circulated through a convection or fan coil system or through a radiant baseboard or floor system.
Industry:Energy
Equipment designed to cool the core of a nuclear reactor in the event of a complete loss of the coolant.
Industry:Energy
A hydrocarbon gas found in the earth along with natural gas and oil. Butane turns into a liquid when put under pressure. It is sold as bottled gas. It is used to run heaters, stoves and motors, and to help make petrochemicals.
Industry:Energy
Underground reservoirs that produce either dry steam or a mixture of steam and water.
Industry:Energy
The maximum amount of a pollutant legally permitted to be discharged from a single source.
Industry:Energy
An agreement between utility and customer to import power when the customer's service would otherwise be interrupted.
Industry:Energy
The property of emitting radiation; possessed by all materials to a varying extent.
Industry:Energy
An entity that purchases electrical energy or services from the Power Exchange (PX) or through a bilateral contract on behalf of end-use customers.
Industry:Energy
The real-time change in generation output or demand requested by the ISO to maintain reliability of the ISO-controlled grid. Sources of imbalance energy include regulation, spinning and non-spinning reserves, replacement reserve, and energy from other generating units that are able to respond to the ISO's request for more or less energy.
Industry:Energy
