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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
A device that converts a heat, chemical or mechanical energy into electricity.
Industry:Energy
Cogenerators use the waste heat created by one process, for example during manufacturing, to produce steam which is used, in turn, to spin a turbine and generate electricity. Cogenerators may also be QFs.
Industry:Energy
One-thousand volts (1,000). Distribution lines in residential areas usually are 12 kv (12,000 volts).
Industry:Energy
A heating system in which electric resistance is used to produce heat which radiates to nearby surfaces. There is no fan component to a radiant heating system.
Industry:Energy
One thousand (1,000) watts. A unit of measure of the amount of electricity needed to operate given equipment. On a hot summer afternoon a typical home, with central air conditioning and other equipment in use, might have a demand of four kW each hour.
Industry:Energy
A device that produces heat through electric resistance. For example, an electric current is run through a wire coil with a relatively high electric resistance, thereby converting the electric energy into heat which can be transferred to the space by fans.
Industry:Energy
Gas given off by coke ovens. Coke oven gas is interchangeable with goal gas.
Industry:Energy
The most commonly-used unit of measure telling the amount of electricity consumed over time. It means one kilowatt of electricity supplied for one hour. In 1989, a typical California household consumes 534 kWh in an average month.
Industry:Energy
Any person or state agency with a monopoly franchise (including any municipality), which sells electric energy to end-use customers; this term includes the Tennessee valley Authority, but does not include other Federal power marketing agency (from EPAct).
Industry:Energy
