- 업종: 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.
A marketer that is owned either by a distribution or transmission company, or by a corporation that also owns a distribution or transmission company.
Industry:Energy
A shut-off valve located on the inlet side of the meter. It may be integral with the meter bar.
Industry:Energy
An incentive in the form of a rebate or cash payment that is used to induce customers to participate in a DSM program.
Industry:Energy
Gas which is not required to be delivered or not required to be taken under the terms of a gas purchase contract.
Industry:Energy
Provisions in a rate schedule (jurisdictional) or contract (nonjurisdictional) requiring customers to purchase minimum annual volumes of gas or, under certain circumstances, pay the fixed cost portion of the commodity rate on any volumes which fall below the minimum volume level. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has stated in Atlantic Seaboard the three factors needed to justify a minimum bill: (1) protecting the pipeline against the risk of not recovering the fixed costs in the commodity component; (2) protecting full requirements customers from bearing a disproportionate share of the fixed costs resulting from swings off the system by partial requirements customers; and (3) protecting customers from take-or-pay liabilities that the pipeline might otherwise bear.
Industry:Energy
The estimated tensile hoop stress in the wall of the pipe along the circumferential direction that when applied continuously will cause failure of the pipe, at 100,000 hours (11.43 years). This strength value is usually obtained by extrapolation of log-log regression equations or plots.
Industry:Energy
The relationship of absolute outlet pressure at a compressor to absolute inlet pressure.
Industry:Energy
A company which obtains at least 90% of its gas operating revenues from sales for resale and/or transportation of gas for others and/or main line sales to industrial customers and classifies at least 90% of its mains (other than service pipe) as field and gathering, storage, and/or transmission.
Industry:Energy
A marketing company that has corporate ties to an interstate pipeline, an intrastate pipeline, or a local distribution company.
Industry:Energy
