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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Industry: Energy
Number of terms: 18450
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An energy-consuming sector that consists of all facilities and equipment used for producing, processing, or assembling goods. The industrial sector encompasses the following types of activity manufacturing (NAICS codes 31-33); agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (NAICS code 11); mining, including oil and gas extraction (NAICS code 21); and construction (NAICS code 23). Overall energy use in this sector is largely for process heat and cooling and powering machinery, with lesser amounts used for facility heating, air conditioning, and lighting. Fossil fuels are also used as raw material inputs to manufactured products. Note: This sector includes generators that produce electricity and/or useful thermal output primarily to support the above-mentioned industrial activities.
Industry:Energy
An end-use device or customer that receives power from the electric system. NERC definition
Industry:Energy
The ownership of the minerals beneath the earth's surface with the right to remove them. Mineral rights may be conveyed separately from surface rights.
Industry:Energy
The summation of the continuously varying instantaneous demand averaged over a specified interval of time. The information is usually determined by examining a demand meter.
Industry:Energy
The relationship of power supplied to the time of occurrence. Illustrates the varying magnitude of the load during the period covered.
Industry:Energy
The difference between the peak of coincident and noncoincident demands of two or more individual loads.
Industry:Energy
The amount of a quantity per unit floor space. This method adjusts either the amount of energy consumed or expenditures spent, for the effects of various building characteristics,such as size of the building, number of workers, or number of operating hours, to facilitate comparisons of energy across time, fuels, and buildings.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of the average load to peak load during a specified time interval.
Industry:Energy
Total consumption of a particular fuel(s) divided by the total floor space of buildings that use the fuel(s) divided by total annual hours of operation.
Industry:Energy
Energy transfers that cross Balancing Authority boundaries.
Industry:Energy