- Industry: Energy
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A grade of coal made from compressed coal dust, with or without a binding agent such as asphalt.
Industry:Energy
A coal that has been crushed to a fine dust in a grinding mill. It is blown into the combustion zone of a furnace and burns very rapidly and efficiently.
Industry:Energy
A company primarily engaged in the sale and delivery of natural and/or supplemental gas directly to consumers through a system of mains.
Industry:Energy
Amount of foreign coal shipped to the United States, as reported in the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, "Monthly Report IM 145."
Industry:Energy
The electric utility system's load is madeup of many individual loads that make demands upon the system usually at different times of the day. The individual loads within the customer classes follow similar usage patterns, but these classes of service place different demands upon the facilities and the system grid. Theservice requirements of one electrical system can differ from another by time-of-day usage, facility usage, and/or demands placed upon the system grid.
Industry:Energy
An exchange of capacity or energy, or both, between systems whose peak loads occur at different times.
Industry:Energy
The stripping off of one utility function from the others by selling (spinning-off) or in some other way changing the ownership of the assets related to that function. Stripping off is most commonly associated with spinning-off generation assets so they are no longer owned by the shareholders that own the transmission and distribution assets.
Industry:Energy
The sum of sales, mine consumption, issues to miners, and issues to coke, briquetting, and other ancillary plants at mines. Production data include quantities extracted from surface and underground mines, and normally exclude wastes removed at mines or associated reparation plants.
Industry:Energy
A generator at the electric plant site that provides power for the operation of the electrical generating equipment itself, including related demands such as plant lighting, during periods when the electric plant is not operating and power is unavailable from the grid. A black start generator used to start main central station generators is considered to be an auxiliary generator.
Industry:Energy
