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American Gas Association
Industria: 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 concept taken from the Clean Air Act designed to preserve air quality from degradation by requiring that emissions from new facilities, temporary facilities, and even existing facilities in some instances be controlled to the extent possible using the best available technology.
Industry:Energy
A material that is a gas at ambient conditions but can be liquefied at below-ambient temperatures. This includes all of the ambient temperature gases.
Industry:Energy
A small meter station off of a transmission line usually to serve one customer.
Industry:Energy
An instrument for determining the relative humidity of air or other gases. Compare PSYCHROMETER.
Industry:Energy
Generally a location at which gas changes ownership, from one party to another, neither of which is the ultimate consumer. It should be noted, however, that the gas may change from one system to another at this point without changing ownership. Also referred to as city gate station, town border station, or delivery point.
Industry:Energy
Rate making principle regarding the timing and inclusion of plant in the rate base.
Industry:Energy
See SURVIVORS.
Industry:Energy
The facility life permitted by the tax law for use in determining the tax depreciation deduction.
Industry:Energy
The resultant force that resists change in the size or shape of a body acted on by external or internal forces. "Stress" is often used as being synonymous with unit stress which is the stress per unit area (psi).
Industry:Energy
A concept under which the electricity required by a given facility is produced on-site by natural gas and possible alternate standby fueled engines or turbines with the recovery of the equipment's heat of rejection for space conditioning and/or process uses.
Industry:Energy