- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
The process by which a municipal entity assumes responsibility for supplying utility service to its constituents. In supplying electricity, the municipality may generate and distribute the power or purchase wholesale power from other generators and distribute it.
Industry:Energy
the national association of regulatory utility commissioners. An advisory council composed of governmental agencies of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers. "The chief objective is to serve the consumer interest by seeking to improve the quality and effectiveness of public regulation in America."
Industry:Energy
The National Association of Utility Consumer Advocates. NASUCA includes members from 38 states and the District of Columbia. It was formed "to exchange information and take positions on issues affecting utility rates before federal agencies, Congress and the courts.
Industry:Energy
Hydrocarbon gas found in the earth, composed of methane, ethane, butane, propane and other gases.
Industry:Energy
vehicles that are powered by compressed or liquefied natural gas.
Industry:Energy
A mixture of liquids extracted from natural gas and suitable for blending with ordinary oil-derived gasoline.
Industry:Energy
A situation where one firm can produce a given level of output at a lower total cost than can any combination of multiple firms. Natural monopolies occur in industries which exhibit decreasing average long-run costs due to size (economies of scale). According to economic theory, a public monopoly governed by regulation is justified when an industry exhibits natural monopoly characteristics.
Industry:Energy
The National Conference of State Legislatures. A national advisory council which provides services to state legislatures "by bringing together information from all states to forge workable answers to complex policy questions."
Industry:Energy
An uncharged particle found in the nucleus of every atom except that of hydrogen.
Industry:Energy
A unit of force. The amount of force it takes to accelerate one kilogram at one meter per second per second.
Industry:Energy
