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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
The delivery of electricity to the retail customer's home or business through low voltage distribution lines.
Industry:Energy
The angular distance between true south and the point on the horizon directly below the sun. Typically used as an input for opaque surfaces and windows in computer programs for calculating the energy performance of buildings.
Industry:Energy
One million kilowatt-hours of electric power. California's electric utilities generated a total of about 302,072 gigawatt-hours in 2007.
Industry:Energy
The substations, transformers and lines that convey electricity from high-power transmission lines to ultimate consumers. See GRID.
Industry:Energy
A Scheduling Coordinator's schedule is balanced when generation, adjusted for transmission losses, equals demand.
Industry:Energy
The regulated electric utility entity that constructs and maintains the distribution wires connecting the transmission grid to the final customer. The Disco can also perform other services such as aggregating customers, purchasing power supply and transmission services for customers, billing customers and reimbursing suppliers, and offering other regulated or non-regulated energy services to retail customers. The "wires" and "customer service" functions provided by a distribution utility could be split so that two totally separate entities are used to supply these two types of distribution services.
Industry:Energy
A device that provides starting voltage and limits the current during normal operation in electrical discharge lamps (such as fluorescent lamps).
Industry:Energy
Gradual changing of global climates due to buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere. Carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels has reached levels greater than what can be absorbed by green plants and the seas.
Industry:Energy
The stripping off of one utility function from the others by selling (spinning-off) or in some other way changing the ownership of the assets related to that function. Most commonly associated with spinning-off generation assets so they are no longer owned by the shareholders that own the transmission and distribution assets. (See also "Disaggregation.")
Industry:Energy
In the petroleum industry, a barrel is 42 U.S. gallons. One barrel of oil has an energy content of 6 million British thermal units. It takes one barrel of oil to make enough gasoline to drive an average car from Los Angeles to San Francisco and back (at 18 miles per gallon over the 700-mile round trip).
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