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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
A unit of measure of absorbed radiation. Acronym for radiation absorbed dose. One rad equals 100 ergs of radiation energy per gramme of absorbing material.
Industry:Energy
Energy transferred by the exchange of electromagnetic waves from a hot or warm object to one that is cold or cooler. Direct contact with the object is not necessary for the heat transfer to occur.
Industry:Energy
The flow of energy across open space via electromagnetic waves such as light. Passage of heat from one object to another without warming the air space in between.
Industry:Energy
The steam-Rankine cycle employing steam turbines has been the mainstay of utility thermal electric power generation for many years. The cycle, as developed over the years uses superheat, reheat and regeneration. Modern steam Rankine systems operate at a cycle top temperature of about 1,073 degrees Celsius with efficiencies of about 40 percent.
Industry:Energy
Refers to practise by utilities of allotting funds invested in utility Research Development Demonstration and Commercialization and other programmes from rate-payers, as opposed to allocating these costs to shareholders.
Industry:Energy
Coal, natural gas, wood or other fuel that is used in the form in which it is found in nature, without chemical processing.
Industry:Energy
A device in which a controlled nuclear chain reaction can be maintained, producing heat energy.
Industry:Energy
The competitive generation market controlled and coordinated by the ISO for arranging real-time imbalance energy.
Industry:Energy
The instantaneous pricing of electricity based on the cost of the electricity available for use at the time the electricity is demanded by the customer.
Industry:Energy
