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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
The total amount of electricity being used at a given point in time by all consumers in a utility's service territory.
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any person engaged in, or authorized to engage in, distributing or transporting natural gas, including, but not limited to, any such person who is subject to the regulation of the Public Utilities Commission.
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a vehicle originally designed to operate on gasoline that has been modified or altered to run on an alternative fuel.
Industry:Energy
A measure of the amount of light available from a light source equivalent to the light emitted by one candle.
Industry:Energy
Non-organic, non-flammable substance left over after combustible material has been completely burned.
Industry:Energy
The process where biomass fuel is reacted with sub- stoichiometric quantities of air and oxygen usually under high pressure and temperature along with moisture to produce gas which contains hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, water and carbon dioxide. The gas can be burned directly in a boiler, or scrubbed and combusted in an engine-generator to produce electricity. The three types of gasification technologies available for biomass fuels are the fixed bed updraft, fixed bed downdraft and fluidized bed gasifiers. Gasification is also the production of synthetic gas from coal.
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Any technology that changes the potential energy in a fuel into a different from of energy such as heat or motion. The term also is used to mean an apparatus that changes the quantity or quality of electrical energy.
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An electrical control device designed to vary the electrical consumption of a lighting system in order to maintain a specified illumination level.
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Acronym for American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air- Conditioning Engineers.
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