- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
a blend of 85 percent methanol and 15 percent unleaded regular gasoline, used as a motor fuel.
Industry:Energy
One thousand cubic feet or natural gas, having an energy value of one million Btu. A typical home might use six MCF in a month.
Industry:Energy
a liquid formed by catalytically combining carbon monoxide (CO) with hydrogen (H2) in a 1:2 ratio, under high temperature and pressure. Commercially it is typically made by steam reforming natural gas. Also formed in the destructive distillation of wood.
Industry:Energy
A clean- burning oxygenate with high octane and low volatility added to unleaded gasoline to reduce carbon monoxide emissions.
Industry:Energy
vehicles that are powered by compressed or liquefied natural gas.
Industry:Energy
A Notice of Proposed Rule-making. A designation used by the FERC for some of its dockets.
Industry:Energy
Oxides of nitrogen that are a chief component of air pollution that can be produced by the burning of fossil fuels. Also called nitrogen oxides.
Industry:Energy
Northwest Regional Transmission Association. A subregional transmission group within the Western Regional Transmission Association.
Industry:Energy
An independent federal agency that ensures that strict standards of public health and safety, environmental quality and national security are adhered to by individuals and organizations possessing and using radioactive materials. The NRC is the agency that is mandated with licensing and regulating nuclear power plants in the United States. It was formally established in 1975 after its predecessor, the Atomic Energy Commission, was abolished.
Industry:Energy
A non-utility generator. A generation facility owned and operated by an entity who is not defined as a utility in that jurisdictional area.
Industry:Energy
