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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
Utilities will be allowed to generate electricity from those resources, identified by the CPUC, that are not subject to competition. These resources will be scheduled with the ISO on a must-take basis. Regulatory Must-Take Generation includes QF generating units under federal law, nuclear units and pre-existing power-purchase contracts that have minimum-take provisions.
Industry:Energy
The heating of air that has been previously cooled either by mechanical refrigeration or economizer cooling systems.
Industry:Energy
A standard measurement of a liquid's vapour pressure in pounds per square inch at 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It is an indication of the propensity of the liquid to evaporate.
Industry:Energy
Electric system reliability has two components-- adequacy and security. Adequacy is the ability of the electric system to supply the aggregate electrical demand and energy requirements of the customers at all times, taking into account scheduled and unscheduled outages of system facilities. Security is the ability of the electric system to withstand sudden disturbances such as electric short circuits or unanticipated loss of system facilities.
Industry:Energy
In return for payment, the ISO may call upon the owner of a generating unit to run the unit when required for grid reliability.
Industry:Energy
The ISO will allow utilities to generate power that is needed to ensure system reliability. This includes generation: Required to meet the reliability criteria for interconnected systems operation. Needed to meet load (demand) in constrained areas. Needed to provide voltage or security support of the ISO or of a local area.
Industry:Energy
Resources that constantly renew themselves or that are regarded as practically inexhaustible. These include solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and wood. Although particular geothermal formations can be depleted, the natural heat in the earth is a virtually inexhaustible reserve of potential energy. Renewable resources also include some experimental or less-developed sources such as tidal power, sea currents and ocean thermal gradients.
Industry:Energy
Renewable energy resources are naturally replenishable, but flow-limited. They are virtually inexhaustible in duration but limited in the amount of energy that is available per unit of time. Some (such as geothermal and biomass) may be stock-limited in that stocks are depleted by use, but on a time scale of decades, or perhaps centuries, they can probably be replenished. Renewable energy resources include: biomass, hydro, geothermal, solar and wind. In the future they could also include the use of ocean thermal, wave, and tidal action technologies. Utility renewable resource applications include bulk electricity generation, on-site electricity generation, distributed electricity generation, non-grid-connected generation, and demand-reduction (energy efficiency) technologies.
Industry:Energy
The design and implementation of regulatory practises to be applied to the remaining regulated entities after restructuring of the vertically-integrated electric utility. The remaining regulated entities would be those that continue to exhibit characteristics of a natural monopoly, where imperfections in the market prevent the realisation of more competitive results,and where, in light of other policy considerations, competitive results are unsatisfactory in one or more respects. Re-regulation could employ the same or different regulatory practises as those used before restructuring.
Industry:Energy
Research is the discovery of fundamental new knowledge. Development is the application of new knowledge to develop a potential new service or product. Basic power sector R&D is most commonly funded and conducted through the Department of Energy (DOE), its associated government laboratories, university laboratories,the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and private sector companies.
Industry:Energy
