- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
- Number of blossaries: 1
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Real time monitoring of natural gas quantities, and characteristics, as it passes through a specific location.
Industry:Energy
A valve built to pass a fluid in one direction but to close automatically when the fluid tries to flow in the opposite direction.
Industry:Energy
The fractional change in length (sometimes volume, specified) of a material for a unit change in temperature.
Industry:Energy
The separation of the various components of gas sales, storage, transmission, delivery and etc. into an ala carte menu of services from which a customer may choose only those desired.
Industry:Energy
A Continuing Property Record Unit is the minimum division of plant selected to be continuously associated with its cost in the plant records.
Industry:Energy
A measure of the need for air conditioning (cooling) based on temperature and humidity. Although cooling degree days are published for many weather stations, a specific procedure has not been generally accepted.
Industry:Energy
A special valve used in refrigerating systems through which the liquid refrigerant (under high pressure) is allowed to escape into a lower pressure and thus expand into a gas.
Industry:Energy
An investment made in an existing building or facility. May be equipment replacements, equipment add-ons, or shell and equipment improvements.
Industry:Energy
Geographic areas of the company's operations established for the purpose of accumulating certain costs to facilitate a fair distribution of such costs among all customer classes. Common cost zones for a long line pipeline are supply zones and market zones.
Industry:Energy
Recently available 12 consecutive months of actual experience. Not always the most recent 12 months. In a rate proceeding, 12 months of actual operations ending no more than 4 months before the date a rate change application is filed. In reference to the EQUITABLE SHARING MECHANISM, a representative base period must reflect a representative level of purchases by a pipeline's firm customers during a period preceding the onset of changed conditions which resulted in reduced purchases and growth of the take-or-pay problem. See EQUITABLE SHARING MECHANISM, DEFICIENCY PERIOD, PURCHASE DEFICIENCY METHODOLOGY and TEST PERIOD.
Industry:Energy
