- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
The application and integration of a new product or service into an existing or new system. Most commonly, demonstration involves the construction and operation of a new electric technology interconnected with the electric utility system to demonstrate how it interacts with the system. This includes the impacts the technology may have on the system and the impacts that the larger utility system might have on the functioning of the technology.
Industry:Energy
The zone at and adjacent to the earth's surface where all life exists; all living organisms of the earth.
Industry:Energy
A representation of the total heating output of a central air-conditioning heat pump in Btus during its normal usage period for heating, divided by the total electrical energy input in watt-hours during the same period, as determined using the test procedure specified in the California Code of Regulations, Title 20, Section 1603(c).
Industry:Energy
Soft coal containing large amounts of carbon. It has a luminous flame and produces a great deal of smoke.
Industry:Energy
The amount of heat produced by the complete combustion of a given amount of fuel.
Industry:Energy
The system's ability to carry the electric power for the time interval and period specified. Dependable capacity is determined by such factors as capability, operating power factor and portion of the load the station is to supply.
Industry:Energy
A power loss affecting many electricity consumers over a large geographical area for a significant period of time.
Industry:Energy
A type of hydrogen atom that may be used as fuel for fusion power plants. Also called DEUTERIUM, it is found in abundance in the seas.
Industry:Energy
1) electricity purchased from a public utility 2) energy obtained from burning coal, oil, natural gas or liquefied petroleum gases. (See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2-5302)
Industry:Energy
