- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
A device that produces an electric reaction to visible radiant energy (light).
Industry:Energy
A process by which green plants change carbon dioxide into oxygen and organic materials. The energy for this process comes from sunlight.
Industry:Energy
A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus (including valves, compressor units, metering stations, regulator stations, etc.) for conveying a liquid or gas.
Industry:Energy
In the utility context, the cost to the utility of providing the next (marginal)kilowatt-hour of electricity, irrespective of sunk costs.
Industry:Energy
One-thousand kilowatts (1,000 kW) or one million (1,000,000) watts. One megawatt is enough electrical capacity to power 1,000 average California homes. (Assuming a loading factor of 0.5 and an average California home having a 2-kilowatt peak capacity.)
Industry:Energy
