Electricity

Electricity

A database referring to the existence of a flow of electric charge.

Industry: Utilities

Add a new term

Contributors in Electricity

Become a Contributors

Electricity

Messenger

Electrical equipment; Electricity

A bare wire used to support power or communications cables suspended overhead.

An expression used by some manufactures to describe a category of medium voltage switchgear equipment where the circuit breakers are all enclosed in grounded, sheet-steel enclosures. Such enclosures ...

Metal enclosed (switchgear)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

An expression used by some manufacturers to describe a category of low voltage, 600 volt class switchgear equipment, where the circuit breakers are all enclosed in grounded, sheet-steel enclosures. ...

Metal halide lamp (MH)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

An HID light source in which the arc tube's primary internal element is Mercury vapour in combination with Halides (salts or iodides) of other metals such as Sodium or Scandium.

Metering (non-tariff)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

Values computed depending on the values of digital or analogue inputs during variable periods.

Metering (tariff)

Electrical equipment; Electricity

Energy values computed from digital and/or analogue inputs during variable periods and dedicated to energy measurement for billing purposes.

Mid point sectioning substation

Electrical equipment; Electricity

A substation located at the electrical interface of two sections of electrified railway. It contains provision for the coupling of the sections electrically in the event of loss of supply to one ...