- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
The area of actual framing in an envelope assembly divided by the overall area of the envelope assembly. This percentage is used to calculate the overall U-value of an assembly.
Industry:Energy
The quantity of heat that will flow through one square foot of homogeneous material, one inch thick, in one hour, when there is a temperature difference of one degree Fahrenheit between its surfaces.
Industry:Energy
The surrounding atmosphere; encompassing on all sides; the environment surrounding a body but undisturbed or unaffected by it.
Industry:Energy
The number of cycles which an alternating current moves through in each second. Standard electric utility frequency in the United States is 60 cycles per second, or 60 Hertz.
Industry:Energy
A condition that occurs when insufficient transfer capacity is available to implement all of the preferred schedules simultaneously.
Industry:Energy
(1)The amount of electric power supplied to meet one or more end user's needs. (2) An end-use device or an end-use customer that consumes power. Load should not be confused with demand, which is the measure of power that a load receives or requires.
Industry:Energy
Surrounding temperature, such as the outdoor air temperature around a building.
Industry:Energy