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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
A complete lighting unit consisting of a lamp or lamps together with the parts designed to distribute the light, to position and protect the lamps and to connect the lamps to the power supply. California Code of Regulations, Section 2- 1602(h)).
Industry:Energy
Available refrigerating capacity of an air conditioner for removing sensible heat and latent heat from the space to be conditioned.
Industry:Energy
A unit of illumination equal to the direct illumination on a surface that is everywhere one metre from a uniform point source of one candle; a unit of illumination that is equal to one lumen per square meter. Also see footcandle.
Industry:Energy
A unit of measure that indicates how heavy the air conditioning needs are under certain weather conditions.
Industry:Energy
The rate at which heat must be extracted from a space in order to maintain the desired temperature within the space.
Industry:Energy
A value used in cooling load calculations for the effective temperature difference (delta T) across a wall or ceiling, which accounts for the effect of radiant heat as well as the temperature difference.
Industry:Energy
This is the commonly used term for a rural electric cooperative. Rural electric cooperatives generate and purchase wholesale power, arrange for the transmission of that power, and then distribute the power to serve the demand of rural customers. Co-ops typically become involved in ancillary services such as energy conservation, load management and other demand-side management programmes in order to serve their customers at least cost.
Industry:Energy
A joint venture organised by consumers to make electric utility service available in their area.
Industry:Energy
A measure of volume, 4 by 4 by 8 feet, used to define amounts of stacked wood available for use as fuel. Burned, a cord of wood produces about 5 million calories of energy.
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