Energy trade

Energy trade

Research, market data and analysis for energy trade.

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Independent power producers (IPP)

Energy; Energy trade

Unregulated power generators which, unlike utilities, have no franchised retail service territories. Even a plant built by an investor-owned utility to serve its native retail load is not an IPP. ...

Combined cycle

Energy; Energy trade

The combination of one or more gas turbine and steam turbines in an electric generation plant. An electric generating technology in which electricity is produced from otherwise lost waste heat ...

The point where a short moving average crosses a longer-moving average. These are often taken as buy or sell signals. When the shorter MA crosses the longer from below and both are turning upwards, ...

Nameplate capacity

Energy; Energy trade

The full-load continuous rating of a generator or other electric power production equipment under specific conditions as designated by the manufacturer. Installed generator nameplate rating is ...

Gann theory

Energy; Energy trade

An eclectic blend of fact and fantasy, the works of WD Gann caught on in the City in the late 1980s. Their chief virtue seems to be that they are understood by no-one, and so almost anyone can claim ...

Solvent extraction-electrowinning

Energy; Energy trade

A metallurgical technique, so far applied only to copper ores, in which metal is dissolved from the rock by organic solvents and recovered from solution by electrolysis.

Avoided cost

Energy; Energy trade

The cost to produce or procure electric power that an electricity utility does not incur because it purchases this increment of power from a qualifying facility. It may include a capacity payment ...