- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
any stationary or floating electrical generating facility using any source of thermal energy, with a generating capacity of 50 megawatts or more, and any facilities appurtenant thereto. Exploratory, development, and production wells, resource transmission lines, and other related facilities used in connection with a geothermal exploratory project or a geothermal field development project are not appurtenant facilities for the purposes of this division. Thermal powerplant does not include any wind, hydroelectric, or solar photovoltaic electrical generating facility.
Industry:Energy
Injection of steam to increase the amount of petroleum that may be recovered from a well.
Industry:Energy
A study of the transformation of energy into other manifested forms and of their practical applications. The three laws of thermodynamics are: 1.Law of Conservation of Energy - energy may be transformed in an isolated system, but its total is constant; 2.Heat cannot be changed directly into work at constant temperature by a cyclic process; 3.Heat capacity and entropy of every crystalline solid becomes zero at absolute zero (0 degrees Kelvin)
Industry:Energy
An automatic control device designed to be responsive to temperature and typically used to maintain set temperatures by cycling the HVAC system.
Industry:Energy
A device, containing a clock mechanism, which can automatically change the inside temperature maintained by the HVAC system according to a preset schedule. The heating or cooling requirements can be reduced when a building is unoccupied or when occupants are asleep. (See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2- 5352(h))
Industry:Energy
Energy obtained by using the motion of the tides to run water turbines that drive electric generators.
Industry:Energy
The pricing of electricity based on the estimated cost of electricity during a particular time block. Time-of-use rates are usually divided into three or four time blocks per twenty-four hour period (on-peak, mid-peak, off-peak and sometimes super off-peak) and by seasons of the year (summer and winter). Real-time pricing differs from TOU rates in that it is based on actual (as opposed to forecasted) prices which may fluctuate many times a day and are weather-sensitive, rather than varying with a fixed schedule.
Industry:Energy
A measuring device that records the times during which a customer uses various amounts of electricity. This type of meter is used for customers who pay time-of-use rates.
Industry:Energy
Electricity prices that vary depending on the time periods in which the energy is consumed. In a time-of- use rate structure, higher prices are charged during utility peak-load times. Such rates can provide an incentive for consumers to curb power use during peak times.
Industry:Energy
