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California Energy Commission
Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
Lay up is another term for cold storage and describes the status of equipment (such as a power plant) that has been placed in storage ("mothballed") for latter use.
Industry:Energy
Available refrigerating capacity of an air conditioner for removing sensible heat and latent heat from the space to be conditioned.
Industry:Energy
A unit of illumination equal to the direct illumination on a surface that is everywhere one meter from a uniform point source of one candle; a unit of illumination that is equal to one lumen per square meter. Also see footcandle.
Industry:Energy
A unit of measure that indicates how heavy the air conditioning needs are under certain weather conditions.
Industry:Energy
The rate at which heat must be extracted from a space in order to maintain the desired temperature within the space.
Industry:Energy
A value used in cooling load calculations for the effective temperature difference (delta T) across a wall or ceiling, which accounts for the effect of radiant heat as well as the temperature difference.
Industry:Energy
A device for evaporatively cooling water by contact with air.
Industry:Energy
This is the commonly used term for a rural electric cooperative. Rural electric cooperatives generate and purchase wholesale power, arrange for the transmission of that power, and then distribute the power to serve the demand of rural customers. Co-ops typically become involved in ancillary services such as energy conservation, load management and other demand-side management programs in order to serve their customers at least cost.
Industry:Energy
The most common unit of measurement of natural gas volume. It equals the amount of gas required to fill a volume of one cubic foot under stated conditions of temperature, pressure and water vapor. One cubic foot of natural gas has an energy content of approximately 1,000 Btus. One hundred (100) cubic feet equals one therm (100 ft3 = 1 therm).
Industry:Energy
An assembly of equipment for air treatment consisting of a means for ventilation, air circulation, air cleaning, and heat transfer (either heating or cooling). The unit usually consists of an evaporator or cooling coil, and an electrically-driven compressor and condenser combination.
Industry:Energy