- 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.
A two step process to take functionalized costs and (1) determine whether they are fixed or variable and then (2) determine whether the fixed costs will be recovered through the demand rate or the commodity rate.
Industry:Energy
Certain costs which in the aggregate do not vary in amount regardless of the quantity of gas sold or transported. See VARIABLE COSTS.
Industry:Energy
A meter which measures automatically a proportional part of the volume flowing past a metering point.
Industry:Energy
In a pipeline, the decomposition or destruction of the pipe wall by stray electrical currents. The chemical decomposition of a substance when electricity is passed through it in solution or in the molten state. When the process is applied to water or hydrogen, a potential energy source is formed.
Industry:Energy
The sum of the static pressure and the pressure due to the velocity motion.
Industry:Energy
A number expressing the percent of the specified constituent in a mixture to the total quantity of the mixture, as pounds of salt per pound of brine.
Industry:Energy
Certain parties have advanced the concept of the "Golden Rule" in pipeline rate cases. Under this concept, the pipeline as a merchant must be subject to all of the terms and conditions as other shippers on the pipeline's system. The pipeline, as a merchant, must contract with itself for transportation service and receive a priority for scheduling and curtailment under the same terms as other shippers. See COMPARABILITY OF SERVICE.
Industry:Energy
That state of matter which has neither independent shape nor volume. It expands to fill the entire container in which it is held. It is one of the three forms of matter, the other two being solid and liquid.
Industry:Energy
