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In some areas, local governments are responsible for providing electric or gas services rather than having the services provided by...
NYMEX, the acronym for the New York Mercantile Exchange, is the commodity futures exchange that originally provided the market for...
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Much of the new generation built around the world in recent years is fueled by natural gas. Gas-fired generation makes use of four...
When a customer is both a user of power from the grid and at times a net exporter of power back into the grid the metering equipment must...
Net metering is a regulatory policy that allows customers with certain types of distributed generation to net their electricity...
The term net zero describes processes or entities that either have no net greenhouse gas emissions (often called net zero carbon, net...
The distribution feeder design refers to how distribution feeder lines are laid out and interconnected to provide service to customers,...
The New York Independent System Operator, commonly called NYISO, is the organization responsible for managing New York’s electric grid...
Non-spinning reserve comprises units that are not required to be synchronized to the frequency of the system but can be available within...
As stated on the NERC website: “The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a not-for-profit international regulatory...
The North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) serves as an industry forum for the development and promotion of standards promoting a...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) was created as an independent agency by Congress in 1974 to ensure the safe use of...
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The use of nuclear energy for power generation became a commercial technology in the 1960s and grew rapidly in some countries around the...
A nuclear reactor initiates and controls a fission chain reaction to produce neutrons and/or energy. Nuclear fission is a process where...
Although nuclear steam turbine power plants use the same concept of heating water in a boiler to drive a steam turbine, the means by...
The ohm is the unit used as measure of the resistance to flow of electricity in a material. The scientific symbol for electrical...
Ohm's Law is the basic physical relationship that describes how electricity behaves. Typically this is presented as Volts = Amps x Ohms,...
Open access refers to regulatory rules that require owners of essential energy assets such as electric transmission and distribution...
Operating reserve describes the supply resource capacity that is available to the system operator within a short interval of time to...
PJM is a regional transmission organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of Delaware,...
