- Industry: Energy
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A powerful greenhouse gas, also once known as ‘laughing gas’ due to its euphoric effect when inhaled.
Industry:Energy
The competitive sale of gas to residential or small commercial customers, allowing those customers a choice of supplier other than the local distribution company. In Europe and the UK the term is domestic competition; in North America it's retail competition.
Industry:Energy
The chartering of a tanker or other freight vessel for a period of time rather than for a specific voyage.
Industry:Energy
A device that generates direct current to electricity by means of an electrochemical process.
Industry:Energy
A material that becomes a perfect conductor of electricity when chilled. Developments beginning in 1986 have raised the threshold temperature to levels which, in the near future, may provide wires capable of conducting large electric currents without line.
Industry:Energy
Gas sold to customers with a provision that permits curtailment or cessation of service at the discretion of the supplier.
Industry:Energy
A fall in an electricity rate when an increase in consumption cuts the cost to a utility of providing service.
Industry:Energy
An agreement that provides the general terms and conditions for the purchase, sale, or exchange of electricity but does not list specific contract details or obligate either party to perform.
Industry:Energy
A measure of the ignition quality of a diesel fuel calculated from a formula involving the gravity of the fuel and its aniline point.
Industry:Energy
