- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
Natural gas that can be developed for commercial use, and which is found mixed with oil in naturally occurring underground formations.
Industry:Energy
An entity that purchases electrical energy or services from the Power Exchange (PX) or through a bilateral contract on behalf of end-use customers.
Industry:Energy
The real-time change in generation output or demand requested by the ISO to maintain reliability of the ISO-controlled grid. Sources of imbalance energy include regulation, spinning and non-spinning reserves, replacement reserve, and energy from other generating units that are able to respond to the ISO's request for more or less energy.
Industry:Energy
A distributed generation system involves small amounts of generation located on a utility's distribution system for the purpose of meeting local (substation level) peak loads and/or displacing the need to build additional (or upgrade) local distribution lines.
Industry:Energy
A provision included in some power sale contracts that lets the supplier stop delivery when the power is needed to meet certain other obligations.
Industry:Energy
Power capacity or energy obtained by one utility from others under purchase or exchange agreement.
Industry:Energy
The delivery of electricity to the retail customer's home or business through low voltage distribution lines.
Industry:Energy
(energy calorie: small "c" as opposed to food Calorie: capital "C") Any of several approximately equal values of heat, each measured as the quantity of heat require to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius from a standard initial temperature, esp. from 3.98 degrees Celsius. 14.5 degrees Celsius, or 19.5 degrees Celsius, at 1 atmosphere pressure. A calorie is the unit of heat equal to 4.184 joules.
Industry:Energy
A body of water confined by a dam, dike, floodgate or other artificial barrier.
Industry:Energy
