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                                                        The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.                             
                                                     
                        A characteristic of the variety of gas loads whereby individual maximum demands usually occur at different times. Therefore, the maximum coincident load of a group of individual loads is less than the sum of the individual maximum loads. Diversity among customers' loads results in a diversity among the loads of distribution mains and regulators as well as between entire systems. Compare LOAD DIVERSITY.    
    
    						Industry:Energy    
									The customer who purchases gas for consumption and not for resale purposes. See CONSUMER, GAS.    
    
    						Industry:Energy    
									The rate at which gas is delivered to or by a system, part of a system, or a piece of equipment, expressed in cubic feet or therms or multiples thereof, for a designated period of time called the demand interval. Compare LOAD.    
    
    						Industry:Energy    
									The rate design step that allocates the demand and commodity costs of the various functions to the customer classes. See COST OF SERVICE.    
    
    						Industry:Energy