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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Industry: Energy
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This Demand-Side Management category represents the amount of consumer load reduction atthe time of system peak due to utility programmes that reduce consumer load during many hours of the year. Examples include utility rebate and shared savings activities for the installation of energy efficient appliances, lighting and electrical machinery, and weatherization materials. In addition, this category includes all other Demand-Side Management activities, such as thermal storage, time-of-use rates, fuel substitution, measurement and evaluation, and any other utility-administered Demand-Side Management activity designed to reduce demand and/or electricity use.
Industry:Energy
Activities of removing "elutes" a material (uranium) adsorbed on ion exchange resin from the "eluant" solution.
Industry:Energy
A feature in the building designed to reduce the usage of energy.
Industry:Energy
The failure of an electric power system to generate or deliver electric power as normally intended, resulting in the cut-off or curtailment of service.
Industry:Energy
A programme in which autility company furnishes home weatherization services free or at reduced cost or provides free or low cost devices for saving energy,such as energy efficient light bulbs, flow restrictors, weather stripping, and water heater insulation.
Industry:Energy
The use of electric generators only during interruptions of normal power supply.
Industry:Energy
Electric energy provided for a limited duration, intended only for use during emergency conditions.
Industry:Energy
An area that meets the requirements of a metropolitan statistical area, has a population of one million or more, and consists of two or more component parts that are recognised as primary metropolitan statistical areas.
Industry:Energy
Anthropogenic releases of gases to the atmosphere. In the context of global climate change, they consist of radiatively important greenhouse gases (e.g., the release of carbondioxide during fuel combustion).
Industry:Energy
An energy-consuming subsector of the industrial sector that consists of all facilities and equipment used to perform land preparation and construct, renovate, alter, install, maintain, or repair major infrastructure or individual systems therein. Infrastructure includes buildings; industrial plants; and other major structures, such as tanks, towers, monuments, roadways, tunnels, bridges, dams, pipelines, and transmission lines.
Industry:Energy