- 行业: 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.
A rate schedule which is applicable to a specific customer class of service.
Industry:Energy
An allocation method which allocates demand and/or commodity costs to customer classes by seasonal usage.
Industry:Energy
For gases: The ratio of the specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at constant volume. This ratio is important in thermodynamic equations, and is given the symbol k where k=cp/cv. The ratio k lies between 1.2 and 1.4 for most gases.
Industry:Energy
The costs directly related to serving the customer, regardless of sales volume such as metre reading, billing, and fixed charges for the minimum investment required to serve a customer.
Industry:Energy
The quantity of heat transmitted per hour through one square foot of a building section (wall, roof, window, etc.) for each degree Fahrenheit of temperature difference between the air on the warm side and the air on the cold side of the building section.
Industry:Energy
Volume of air delivered to a burner that will produce the maximum thermal efficiency under specific operating conditions.
Industry:Energy
A certificate issued by a Federal authority certifying that certain facilities are necessary in the interest of national defense, which permits accelerated amortisation of the cost of the facilities or a certain specified percentage thereof, for income tax purposes, over a 60-month period.
Industry:Energy
A heat exchanger which removes heat from vapour causing it to condense into a liquid.
Industry:Energy
A rate schedule which provides different, but increasing, unit charges for various blocks of increasing demand or energy.
Industry:Energy
