- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
An element of low heat conductivity placed in such a way as to reduce or prevent the flow of heat. Some metal framed windows are designed with thermal breaks to improve their overall thermal performance.
Industry:Energy
A utility that relies on its neighboring utilities to transmit to it the power it buys from its suppliers. A utility without its own generation sources, dependent on another utility's transmission system to get its purchased power supplies.
Industry:Energy
A material used to store heat, thereby slowing the temperature variation within a space. Typical thermal mass materials include concrete, brick, masonry, tile and mortar, water, and rock or other materials with high heat capacity.
Industry:Energy
The time rate of heat flow per unit area under steady conditions from the air (or other fluid) on the warm side of a barrier to the air (or fluid) on the cool side, per unit temperature difference between the two sides.
Industry:Energy
any stationary or floating electrical generating facility using any source of thermal energy, with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or more, and any facilities appurtenant thereto. Exploratory, development, and production wells, resource transmission lines, and other related facilities used in connection with a geothermal exploratory project or a geothermal field development project are not appurtenant facilities for the purposes of this division. Thermal powerplant does not include any wind, hydroelectric, or solar photovoltaic electrical generating facility.
Industry:Energy
This is a regulated entity which owns, and may construct and maintain, wires used to transmit wholesale power. It may or may not handle the power dispatch and coordination functions. It is regulated to provide non-discriminatory connections,comparable service and cost recovery. According to EPAct, any electric utility, qualifying cogeneration facility, qualifying small power production facility, or Federal power marketing agency which owns or operates electric power transmission facilities which are used for the sale of electric energy at wholesale. (See also "Generation Dispatch & Control" and "PowerPool.")
Industry:Energy
Injection of steam to increase the amount of petroleum that may be recovered from a well.
Industry:Energy
A device that uses steam, heated gases, water flow or wind to cause spinning motion that activates electromagnetic forces and generates electricity.
Industry:Energy
A study of the transformation of energy into other manifested forms and of their practical applications. The three laws of thermodynamics are: 1.Law of Conservation of Energy - energy may be transformed in an isolated system, but its total is constant; 2.Heat cannot be changed directly into work at constant temperature by a cyclic process; 3.Heat capacity and entropy of every crystalline solid becomes zero at absolute zero (0 degrees Kelvin)
Industry:Energy
Transporting electricity over bulk-power lines at voltages greater than 800 kilovolts.
Industry:Energy
