- Industry: Energy
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A program in which the utility company offers a lower rate in return for having permission to turn off the air conditioner or water heater for short periods of time by remote control. This control allows the utility to reduce peak demand.
Industry:Energy
The end-use category that handles boiler fuel. Fuel in boilers is transformed into another useful energy source, steam or hot water, which is in turn used in other end uses, such as process or space heating or electricity generation. Manufacturers find measuring quantities of steam as it passes through to various end uses especially difficult because variations in both temperature and pressure affect energy content. Thus,the MECS (an EIA survey) does not present end-use estimates of steam or hot water and shows only the amount of the fuel used in the boiler to produce those secondary energy sources.
Industry:Energy
A small groove scribed into the surface of a solar photovoltaic cell which is filled with metal for contacts.
Industry:Energy
The relationship of power supplied to the time of occurrence. Illustrates the varying magnitude of the load during the period covered.
Industry:Energy
A utility cost that may not be meaning fully identified with any particular DSM program category. Indirect costs could be attributable to one of several accounting cost categories (i.e., Administrative, Marketing, Monitoringevaluation, Utility-Earned Incentives, Other). Accounting costs that are known DSM program costs should not be reported under Indirect Utility Cost; those costs should be reported as Direct Utility Costsunder the appropriate DSM program category.
Industry:Energy
One-millionth of a meter. It can also be expressed as 10-6 meter.
Industry:Energy
The difference between the peak of coincident and noncoincident demands of two or more individual loads.
Industry:Energy
The Federal Reserve Boardcalculates this index by compiling indices of physical output from avariety of agencies and trade groups, weighting each index by the Census' value added, and adding it to the cost of materials. When physical measures are not available, the Federal Reserve Board uses the number of production workers or amount of electricity consumed as thebasis for the index. To convert industrial production into dollars, multiply by the "real value added" estimate used by the Federal ReserveBoard.
Industry:Energy
A household cooking appliance consisting of a compartment designed to cook or heat food by means of microwave energy. It may also have a browning coil and convection heating as additional features.
Industry:Energy
The ratio of the average load to peak load during a specified time interval.
Industry:Energy
