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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Industry: Energy
Number of terms: 18450
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An electric rate schedule based on billing demand that provides no charge for energy.
Industry:Energy
A coke plant whose coke production is used primarily by the producing company.
Industry:Energy
A medium-temperature solar thermal collector that typically consists of a metal frame, glazing, absorbers (usually metal), and insulation and that uses a pumped liquid as the heat-transfer medium predominant use is in water-heating applications.
Industry:Energy
A trade center for quoting prices on contracts for the delivery of a specified quantity of a commodity at a specified time and place in the future.
Industry:Energy
Any motor vehicle a company owns or leases that is in the normal operations of a company. Vehicles which areused in the normal operation of a company, but are owned by company employees are not fleet vehicles. If a company provides services in addition to providing natural gas, only those vehicles that are used by the natural gas provider portion of a company should be counted as fleet vehicles. Vehicles that are considered "off-road" (e.g., farm or construction vehicles) or demonstration vehicles are not to be counted as fleet vehicles. Fleet vehicles include gasoline/diesel powered vehicles and alternative-fuel vehicles.
Industry:Energy
A volumetric measure equal to 4 quarts (231 cubic inches) used to measure fuel oil. One barrel equals 42 gallons.
Industry:Energy
gas
A non-solid, non-liquid combustible energy source that includes natural gas, coke-oven gas, blast-furnace gas, and refinery gas.
Industry:Energy
The upper surface of the stratum underlying a coal seam. In coals that were formed in persistent swamp environments, the floor is typically a bed of clay, known as "underclay," representing the soil in which the trees or other coal-forming swamp vegetation was rooted.
Industry:Energy
A fast breeder reactor that is cooled by a gas (usually helium) under pressure.
Industry:Energy
A price specified in a market-price contract as the lowest purchase price of the uranium, even if the market price falls below the specified price. The floor price may be related to the seller's production costs.
Industry:Energy