- 行业: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Defines the type of customer. The common classes of service applied to ultimate consumers, and considerably more completely described in the A.G.A. publication "Definitions of a Gas Customer and Classes of Service for Industry Reporting Purposes", are: 1.Residential Service: Covers service to customers for domestic purposes (single, multifamily, or mobile homes, etc.). In residential service, the number of housing units within a structure determines the customer classification. 2.Commercial Service: Covers service to customers engaged in wholesale or retail trade, agriculture, communications, finance, fisheries, forestry, government, insurance, real estate, transportation, etc., and to customers not directly involved in other classes of service. 3.Industrial Service: Covers service to customers engaged primarily in a process which either involves the extraction of raw materials from the earth or a change of raw unfinished materials into another form or product.
Industry:Energy
The amount of heat which is liberated per unit time per cubic foot of combustion space.
Industry:Energy
The period of time during which the flow is averaged in determining demand, such as 60-minute or 30-minute.
Industry:Energy
These are payments for gas made to producers when the transmission company is unable to meet its contractual obligations to buy gas at a specified time. After the transmission companies' facilities are completed, the gas previously paid for is obtained from the producer over the period of the contracts as the producers' capacities permit.
Industry:Energy
A formula for calculating gas flow in large diameter pipelines, particularly at relatively high pressures and velocities. Compare WEYMOUTH FORMULA.
Industry:Energy
A point at which the load of a given area is assumed to be concentrated.
Industry:Energy
A. Gross Additions - Expenditures for construction (including Allowance for Funds Used During Construction) and/or utility plant purchased and acquired. b. Net Additions - Gross additions less retirements and adjustments of utility plant. It is the net change in utility plant between two dates.
Industry:Energy
Degradation of atmospheric quality due to heat, particulate, or other products from industrial plants, power plants, refineries, or vehicular engines.
Industry:Energy
Moving a rig from the location of a lost or completed hole preparatory to starting a new one. In skidding the rig, the move is accomplished with little or no dismantling of equipment.
Industry:Energy
