- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
- Number of blossaries: 1
- Company Profile:
The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
(Definition taken from the FERC Uniform System of Accounts, effective April 1, 1986.) "Retirement Units" means those items of plant which, when retired, with or without replacement, are accounted for by crediting the book cost thereof to the plant account in which included. ("Definitions" Item 32.) Each utility shall use list of retirement units as is in use by it at the effective date hereof or as may be prescribed by the Commission, with the option, however, of using smaller units, provided the utility's practice in this respect is consistent.
Industry:Energy
A general term for a measure; also applied to the mechanism, composed of gears, dials, and dial face, that indicates the quantity of gas passing through a meter.
Industry:Energy
A process that brings about the retirement of plant prior to its physical degeneration by the development of new types of plant which are more economical, efficient, versatile and reliable.
Industry:Energy
Amounts paid to lessors as compensation for loss of income from non-production of producible reserves.
Industry:Energy
Entity which sells natural gas it has purchased from a producer or other seller.
Industry:Energy
One in which the flue gases do not flow through the oven compartment.
Industry:Energy
The components of a fuel that will burn. In natural gas, this is mostly methane.
Industry:Energy
The process of assigning each component of a company's cost of service to the functions the company performs (e.g., production, storage, transmission, distribution).
Industry:Energy
Total volume of gas within a reservoir which exerts a pressure from 0 pounds per square inch gauge pressure to the maximum or ultimate reservoir gauge pressure.
Industry:Energy
