- 行业: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
That portion of a utility's plant which is devoted to the operations of the company. Excludes plant: purchased or sold, in process of reclassification, leased to others, held for future use, under construction, and acquisition adjustments and adjustment accounts, and without deduction of Accumulated Provision for Depreciation and Amortization.
Industry:Energy
The maximum hoop stress permitted by code for the design of a piping system. See HOOP STRESS.
Industry:Energy
A customer billing procedure in a distribution company where bills are rendered every month, but metres are read every other month. An estimate is made of the volume of gas used in months when metres are not read.
Industry:Energy
A metre in which the case is made of tinned sheet metal, with joints sealed with tin solder.
Industry:Energy
A study of subsurface geological conditions of structure or material through the interpretation of measurement variations in density, magnetics, elasticity, electrical conductivity, temperature, and/or radioactivity.
Industry:Energy
An upfold or arch in rock strata in which the beds or layers dip in opposite directions from the crest, permitting possible entrapment of oil and gas.
Industry:Energy
Ignition by an energy source which is continuously maintained through the time the burner is in service, whether the main burner is firing or not.
Industry:Energy
Resources obtained through the implementation of DSM that may be used as an alternative to traditional supply-side resources.
Industry:Energy
Short-term promissory notes issued and sold by utilities and other companies usually through dealers in such paper.
Industry:Energy
The grilled opening into a room by which the amount of warm air from a furnace or cold air from a cooling coil can be directed or controlled; it includes a damper assembly. See GRILLE.
Industry:Energy
