upload
U.S. Department of Energy
Industry: Government
Number of terms: 22108
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
A description of how well people in a lighted space can see to do visual tasks and how visually comfortable they feel in that space.
Industry:Energy
A deposition process whereby heat is used to break molecules into elemental sources that are then spray deposited on a substrate.
Industry:Energy
A curve that indicates the number of hours per year that specific wind speeds occur.
Industry:Energy
A curve that displays load values on the horizontal axis in descending order of magnitude against the percent of time (on the vertical axis) that the load values are exceeded.
Industry:Energy
A curve on a chart showing power (kW) supplied (on the horizontal axis) plotted against time of occurrence (on the vertical axis) to illustrate the variance in a load in a specified time period.
Industry:Energy
A curve illustrating the variation or spectral irradiance with wavelength.
Industry:Energy
A current carrier, either an electron or a hole, that is in the minority in a specific layer of a semiconductor material; the diffusion of minority carriers under the action of the cell junction voltage is the current in a photovoltaic device.
Industry:Energy
A corporation, person, agency, authority or other legal entity that owns and/or operates facilities for the generation, transmission, distribution or sale of electricity primarily for use by the public. Also known as a power provider.
Industry:Energy
A cooling device that uses mechanical energy to produce chilled water.
Industry:Energy
A container that holds rock used as the thermal mass to store solar energy in a solar heating system.
Industry:Energy