- 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.
Maintenance or construction work requiring welding, burning, grinding, or drilling.
Industry:Energy
The act or process of distributing gas from the city gas or plant that portion of utility plant used for the purpose of delivering gas from the city gate or plant to the consumers, or to expenses relating to the operating and maintenance of distribution plant.
Industry:Energy
The minimum rate which an open-access transporter may charge for service. Section 284.7(d) (4) (ii) states that any minimum rate must be based on the average variable costs which are properly allocated to the service to which the rate applies.
Industry:Energy
The utilization of subsurface facilities for storing gas which has been transferred from its original location for the primary purposes of load balancing. The facilities are usually natural geological reservoirs such as depleted oil or gas fields or water-bearing sands sealed on the top by an impermeable cap rock. The facilities may be man-made or natural caverns.
Industry:Energy
A gas which is a product of combustion resulting when carbon unites with sufficient oxygen to produce complete combustion; a component of many natural gases.
Industry:Energy
A privilege to the stockholders of a corporation to purchase proportionate amounts of a new issue of securities at an established price, usually below the current market price; also, the negotiable certificate or warrant evidencing such privilege.
Industry:Energy
All solids, including cinders, ash, soot, or other partially incinerated matter, that are carried in a gas stream.
Industry:Energy
Electric generating stations operated by industrial establishments and railroads to supply all or part of their own power requirements.
Industry:Energy
Normally settlement rates are developed using actual cost experience of the base period, as adjusted in the test period, allocated to estimated annual sales volumes. The company is at risk for any variations in costs and sales volumes. On rare occasions a pipeline company may settle on the basis of actual costs and sales volumes for a defined period of time called the locked-in period. The company has less downside risk in this type of settlement.
Industry:Energy
