- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
also known as gross-polluting or super- emitting vehicles, i.e., vehicles that emit far in excess of the emission standards by which the vehicle was certified when it was new.
Industry:Energy
An engine in which fuel is burned inside the engine. A car's gasoline engine or rotary engine is an example of a internal combustion engine. It differs from engines having an external furnace, such as a steam engine.
Industry:Energy
A system which uses either direct evaporative cooling, or a secondary evaporatively cooled water loop and cooling coil to satisfy cooling loads, even if additional mechanical cooling is required.
Industry:Energy
Black or brown rock, formed under pressure from organic fossils in prehistoric times, that is mined and burned to produce heat energy.
Industry:Energy
Electricity supplied under agreements that allow the supplier to curtail or stop service at times.
Industry:Energy
Electricity purchased by one utility from another to take the place of electricity that would have cost more to produce on the utility's own system.
Industry:Energy
A transmission line that links two or more regional electric power systems.
Industry:Energy
The interacting system of biological community and its nonliving environment.
Industry:Energy
