- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
A service provided by a pipeline, or other owner of storage facilities, whereby storage customers may lease a portion of the facilities for the purposes of storing customer-owned gas. Contract storage service generally involves the injection of customer-owned gas into the facility during the off-peak period, the holding of the accumulated inventory for the customer, and the withdrawal of gas during the peak heating season.
Industry:Energy
An entity which manages and controls a facility and the gas moving through that facility. The operator performs the day to day operations, contract scheduling, communications, and routinely monitors, tests, and repairs facilities and/or measurement equipment. The operator is not necessarily the owner. A producer operator operates a well. A transportation operator operates a gathering system, pipeline or local distribution company. A plant operator operates a processing or extraction plant. A consumer operator operates an end user facility.
Industry:Energy
Gas supplies that are free to be sold to the highest bidder. They must be uncommitted, or committed under contract to a buyer for no longer than some short period (such as one year). They may be totally uncommitted to any buyer. In addition, they must be available to a pipeline's customers at delivered city-gate prices that are competitive enough to prevent the pipeline from exercising market power. In GAS INVENTORY CHARGE proceedings, the Commission has stated that there must be sufficient divertible gas supplies, as well as COMPARABILITY OF SERVICE, in order to find that the pipeline is operating in a competitive environment.
Industry:Energy
Process in which a utility issues a request for proposals to acquire DSM resources from energy service companies and customers, reviews proposals, and negotiates contracts with winning bidders for a specified amount of energy savings.
Industry:Energy
The recorded graph of the natural and induced electrical characteristics of rocks used as an indication of permeability and porosity and the possibility of contained fluids.
Industry:Energy
A combination of Actual Cost and Fair Value in rate base determination. See ACTUAL COST, FAIR VALUE.
Industry:Energy
A loosely defined petroleum fraction containing primarily aliphatic (linear) hydrocarbons with boiling points ranging from 125o to 240o C. It is thus intermediate between gasoline and kerosene, and contains components of both. Its principal uses are in solvents and paint thinners and as a raw material for the production of organic chemicals, but it has been used as a raw material for the production of synthetic natural gas.
Industry:Energy
A service which permits a sales customer the option, on any day, of using up to a set percentage of its daily contract demand for transportation, rather than sales service. In return for this ability to "swing", the customer is assessed a STANDBY CHARGE. Trans-portation under Standby Sales Service is generally provided under the terms of the pipeline's Firm Trans-portation rate schedule.
Industry:Energy
