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A chemical process that converts coal into clean-burning liquid hydrocarbons, such as synthetic crude oil and methanol.
Industry:Energy
Steam or hot water from an outsidesource used as an energy source in a building The steam or hot water is produced in a central plant and piped into the building. The district heat may be purchased from a utility or provided by a physical plant ina separate building that is part of the same facility (for example, a hospital complex or university).
Industry:Energy
Coal mining productivity is calculated by dividing total coal production by the total direct labor hours worked by all mine employees.
Industry:Energy
The electric utility system's load is madeup of many individual loads that make demands upon the system usually at different times of the day. The individual loads within the customer classes follow similar usage patterns, but these classes of service place different demands upon the facilities and the system grid. Theservice requirements of one electrical system can differ from another by time-of-day usage, facility usage, and/or demands placed upon the system grid.
Industry:Energy
The process of sizing and cleaning coal to meet market specifications by removing impurities such as rock, sulfur, etc. It may include crushing, screening, or mechanical cleaning.
Industry:Energy
An exchange of capacity or energy, or both, between systems whose peak loads occur at different times.
Industry:Energy
A classification of coal fields defined in the Bituminous Coal Act of 1937. The districts were originally established to aid in formulating minimum prices of bituminous and subbituminous coal and lignite. Because much statistical information was compiled in terms of these districts, their use for statistical purposes has continued since the abandonment of that legislation in 1943. District 24 was added for the anthracite-producing district in Pennslyvania.
Industry:Energy
The stripping off of one utility function from the others by selling (spinning-off) or in some other way changing the ownership of the assets related to that function. Stripping off is most commonly associated with spinning-off generation assets so they are no longer owned by the shareholders that own the transmission and distribution assets.
Industry:Energy
The sum of sales, mine consumption, issues to miners, and issues to coke, briquetting, and other ancillary plants at mines. Production data include quantities extracted from surface and underground mines, and normally exclude wastes removed at mines or associated reparation plants.
Industry:Energy
A formal record of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proceeding. These records are available for inspection and copying by the public. Each individual case proceeding is identified by an assigned number.
Industry:Energy
