- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
This is a regulated entity which owns, and may construct and maintain, wires used to transmit wholesale power. It may or may not handle the power dispatch and coordination functions. It is regulated to provide non-discriminatory connections,comparable service and cost recovery. According to EPAct, any electric utility, qualifying cogeneration facility, qualifying small power production facility, or Federal power marketing agency which owns or operates electric power transmission facilities which are used for the sale of electric energy at wholesale. (See also "Generation Dispatch & Control" and "PowerPool.")
Industry:Energy
Injection of steam to increase the amount of petroleum that may be recovered from a well.
Industry:Energy
A device that uses steam, heated gases, water flow or wind to cause spinning motion that activates electromagnetic forces and generates electricity.
Industry:Energy
A study of the transformation of energy into other manifested forms and of their practical applications. The three laws of thermodynamics are: 1.Law of Conservation of Energy - energy may be transformed in an isolated system, but its total is constant; 2.Heat cannot be changed directly into work at constant temperature by a cyclic process; 3.Heat capacity and entropy of every crystalline solid becomes zero at absolute zero (0 degrees Kelvin)
Industry:Energy
Transporting electricity over bulk-power lines at voltages greater than 800 kilovolts.
Industry:Energy
An automatic control device designed to be responsive to temperature and typically used to maintain set temperatures by cycling the HVAC system.
Industry:Energy
Disaggregating electric utility service into its basic components and offering each component separately for sale with separate rates for each component. For example, generation, transmission and distribution could be unbundled and offered as discrete services.
Industry:Energy
A device, containing a clock mechanism, which can automatically change the inside temperature maintained by the HVAC system according to a preset schedule. The heating or cooling requirements can be reduced when a building is unoccupied or when occupants are asleep. (See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2- 5352(h))
Industry:Energy
A space that is neither directly nor indirectly conditioned space, which can be isolated from conditioned space by partitions and/or closeable doors. (See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2-5302)
Industry:Energy
Energy obtained by using the motion of the tides to run water turbines that drive electric generators.
Industry:Energy
