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Unregulated power generators which, unlike utilities, have no franchised retail service territories. Even a plant built by an investor-owned utility to serve its native retail load is not an IPP. It’s still a utility plant. Also, utilities that form affiliates and build outside of their territories can be IPPs.
Industry:Energy
A metallurgical technique, so far applied only to copper ores, in which metal is dissolved from the rock by organic solvents and recovered from solution by electrolysis.
Industry:Energy
The cost to produce or procure electric power that an electricity utility does not incur because it purchases this increment of power from a qualifying facility. It may include a capacity payment and/or an energy payment component.
Industry:Energy
The full-load continuous rating of a generator or other electric power production equipment under specific conditions as designated by the manufacturer. Installed generator nameplate rating is usually indicated on a nameplate physically attached to the generator.
Industry:Energy
An eclectic blend of fact and fantasy, the works of WD Gann caught on in the City in the late 1980s. Their chief virtue seems to be that they are understood by no-one, and so almost anyone can claim to be an expert in them without recourse.
Industry:Energy
The UK's flexibility mechanism, also known as the flex, is operated by Transco (British Gas) to make sure the amount of gas in the pipeline remains more or less constant at all times. If the system goes out of balance, Transco uses the flex to balance the system by buying and selling gas based on bids and offers submitted by shippers.
Industry:Energy
An electrical energy unit of measure equal to 1 watt of power supplied to, or taken from, an electric circuit steadily for 1 hour.
Industry:Energy
A price established at the close of a trading day used to calculate the settlement of futures contracts.
Industry:Energy
Outright, non-market-related price requested by a seller of crude oil or products. Effectively, the list price.
Industry:Energy
A power source that is continuously or cyclically renewed by nature. Solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal and biomass electricity generation are example of renewable energy sources.
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