- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
The capacity for doing work. Forms of energy include: thermal, mechanical, electrical and chemical. Energy may be transformed from one form into another.
Industry:Energy
A requirement in the Building Energy Efficiency Standards that a proposed building be designed to consume no more than a specified number of British thermal units (Btus) per year per square foot of conditioned floor area.
Industry:Energy
The amount of money owed by an electric customer for kilowatt-hours consumed.
Industry:Energy
The amount of energy consumed in the form in which it is acquired by the user. The term excludes electrical generation and distribution losses.
Industry:Energy
Using less energy/electricity to perform the same function. Programs designed to use electricity more efficiently: doing the same with less. For the purpose of this paper, energy efficiency is distinguished from DSM programs in that the latter are utility-sponsored and -financed, while the former is a broader term not limited to any particular sponsor or funding source. "Energy conservation" is a term which has also been used but it has the connotation of doing without in order to save energy rather than using less energy to do the some thing and so is not used as much today. Many people use these terms interchangeably.
Industry:Energy
A control system (often computerized) designed to regulate the energy consumption of a building by controlling the operation of energy consuming systems, such as the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), lighting and water heating systems.
Industry:Energy
The portion of total energy resources that is known and can be recovered with presently available technology at an affordable cost.
Industry:Energy
The state law that directs California electric utility companies to gather a state energy surcharge per kilowatt hour of electricity consumed by a customer. These funds are used for operation of the California Energy Commission. As of January 1, 2004, the surcharge is set at of three-tenths of one mil ($0.0003) per kilowatt-hour
Industry:Energy
