- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 9078
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
An entity responsible for planning, scheduling, accounting, billing, and settlement for energy deliveries from the aggregator's portfolio of sellers and/or buyers. Aggregators seek to bring together customers or generators so they can buy or sell power in bulk, making a profit on the transaction.
Industry:Energy
Unwanted natural gas that is disposed of by burning as it is released from an oil field.
Industry:Energy
A material with a permeance of one perm or less which provides resistance to the transmission of water vapor. (See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2-5302)
Industry:Energy
The process of supplying or removing air by natural or mechanical means to or from any space. Such air may or may not have been conditioned or treated.
Industry:Energy
An entity that owns transmission facilities or has firm contractual right to use transmission facilities.
Industry:Energy
The step of the California Energy Contingency Plan to determine the existence and scope of an energy shortage and report to Energy Commission executives, the Governor and the Legislature where required under the plan.
Industry:Energy
A utility that relies on its neighboring utilities to transmit to it the power it buys from its suppliers. A utility without its own generation sources, dependent on another utility's transmission system to get its purchased power supplies.
Industry:Energy
An arrangement whereby the same company owns all the different aspects of making, selling, and delivering a product or service. In the electric industry, it refers to the historically common arrangement whereby a utility would own its own generating plants,transmission system, and distribution lines to provide all aspects of electric service.
Industry:Energy
The time rate of heat flow per unit area under steady conditions from the air (or other fluid) on the warm side of a barrier to the air (or fluid) on the cool side, per unit temperature difference between the two sides.
Industry:Energy
