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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Industry: Energy
Number of terms: 18450
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Receipts into transportation, storage, and/or distribution facilities within a state under gas purchase contracts or agreements whether or not billing or payment occurred during the report year.
Industry:Energy
A hydroelectric project constructed only to generate electricity.
Industry:Energy
The use of sub-surface facilities for storing gas that has been transferred from its original location. The facilities are usually hollowed-out salt domes, geological reservoirs (depleted oil or gas fields) or water-bearing sands topped by an impermeable cap rock (aquifer).
Industry:Energy
A regulatory mandate to allow others to use a utility's transmission and distribution facilities to move bulk power from one point to another on a non discriminatory basis for a cost-based fee.
Industry:Energy
Power purchased or available for purchase from a source outside the system.
Industry:Energy
A transmission line with one electric circuit. For three-phase supply, a single circuit requires at least three conductors, one per phase.
Industry:Energy
Interstate company reservoir capacities are those certificated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Independent producer and intrastate company reservoir capacities are reported as developed capacity.
Industry:Energy
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Order No. 888 requires public utilities to provide non-discriminatory transmission service over their transmission facilities to third parties to move bulk power from one point to another on a nondiscriminatory basis for a cost-based fee. Order 890 expanded Open Access to cover the methodology for calculating available transmission transfer capability; improvements that opened a coordinated transmission planning processes; standardization of energy and generation imbalance charges; and other reforms regarding the designation and undesignation of transmission network resources.
Industry:Energy
A clause in a rate schedule that provides for adjustments to the bill when energy from another electric system is acquired and its cost varies from a specified unit base amount.
Industry:Energy
A chemical sedimentary rock deposited by precipitation from mineral waters, especially siliceous sinter and calcareous sinter.
Industry:Energy