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The electric utility sector consists of privately and publicly owned establishments that generate, transmit, distribute, or sell electricity primarily for use by the public and that meet the defintion of an electric utility.Non utility power producers are not included in the electric sector.
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The operating right to explore for and develop petroleum fields in consideration for a share of production inkind (equity oil).
Industry:Energy
A form of energy characterized by the presence and motion of elementary charged particles generated by friction, induction, or chemical change.
Industry:Energy
The rate at which energy is delivered to loads and scheduling points by generation, transmission, and distribution facilities.
Industry:Energy
Metal wires, cables, and bus-bar used for carrying electric current. Conductors may be solid or stranded, that is,built up by a assembly of smaller solid conductors.
Industry:Energy
The physical connection (e.g.,transmission lines, transformers, switch gear, etc.) between two electric systems permitting the transfer of electric energy in one or both directions.
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The direct process end use in which electricity is used to cause a chemical transformation. Major uses of electrochemical process occur in the aluminum industry in which alumina is reduced to molten aluminum metal and oxygen, and in the alkalies and chlorine industry, in which brine is separated into caustic soda, chlorine, and hydrogen.
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Anthropogenic releases of gases to the atmosphere. In the context of global climate change, they consist of radiatively important greenhouse gases (e.g., the release of carbondioxide during fuel combustion).
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A unique value for scaling emissions to activity data in terms of a standard rate of emissions per unit of activity (e.g., pounds of carbon dioxide emitted per Btu of fossil fuel consumed).
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