- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
The range of temperatures over which the majority of persons feel comfortable (neither too hot nor too cold).
Industry:Energy
The angular distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees of arc.
Industry:Energy
1) The height above sea level (altitude); 2) A geometrical projection, such as a building, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon.
Industry:Energy
Embedded costs of utility investments exceeding market prices are: i) costs incurred pursuant to a regulatory or contractual obligation; 2) costs that are reflected in cost-based rates; and 3) cost-based rates that exceed the price of alternatives in the marketplace. ECEMPS may become "stranded costs" where they exceed the amount that can be recovered through the asset's sale. Regulatory questions involve whether such costs should be recovered by utility shareholders and if so, how they should be recovered. "Transition costs" are stranded costs which are charged to utility customers through some type of fee or surcharge after the assets are sold or separated from the vertically-integrated utility. "Stranded assets" are assets which cannot be sold for some reason. The British nuclear plants are an example of stranded assets which no one would buy. (Also referred to as Transition Costs.)
Industry:Energy
Equipment designed to cool the core of a nuclear reactor in the event of a complete loss of the coolant.
Industry:Energy
The maximum amount of a pollutant legally permitted to be discharged from a single source.
Industry:Energy
The property of emitting radiation; possessed by all materials to a varying extent.
Industry:Energy
The emissivity of a material, expressed as a fraction. Emittance values range from 0.05 for brightly polished metals to 0.96 for flat black paint.
Industry:Energy
