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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
A file maintained by the PX for use in bidding and bid evaluation protocol that contains information on generating units, loads, and other resources eligible to bid into the PX.
Industry:Energy
A broad term which refers to charges levied on power suppliers or their customers for the use of the transmission or distribution wires.
Industry:Energy
A measure of the amount of heat released by a gas burner with a constant orifice, equal to the gross calorific value of the gas in British thermal units per cubic foot at standard temperature and pressure divided by the square root of the specific gravity of the gas. The index is an indicator of the quality of the fuel gas
Industry:Energy
One-thousand kilowatts (1,000 kW) or one million (1,000,000) watts. One megawatt is enough electrical capacity to power 1,000 average California homes. (Assuming a loading factor of 0.5 and an average California home having a 2-kilowatt peak capacity.)
Industry:Energy
One-thousand kilowatt-hours, or an amount of electrical energy that would supply 1,370 typical homes in the Western U.S. for one month. (This is a rounding up to 8,760 kWh/year per home based on an average of 8,549 kWh used per household per year (U.S. DOE EIA, 1997 annual per capita electricity consumption figures)).
Industry:Energy
A device for measuring levels and volumes of a customers gas and electricity use.
Industry:Energy
