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Coincident peak demand is the demand of a customer or group of customers at the time of the electric or gas system’s peak demand. The...
Combined heat and power, or CHP, is the concurrent production of useful thermal energy (heating and/or cooling) and electricity or...
A highly efficient way to use gas to generate electricity is to combine a gas combustion turbine with a steam turbine in a power plant...
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Gas and electric utility rate structures and regulatory rules typically classify commercial customers as a unique class. Commercial...
A commodity is a product that is mass produced and unspecialized, and as such it is easily interchangeable with a similar product from...
Consumers or other parties who believe that a utility or other regulated energy company has failed to follow the law or applicable...
Under complete retail competition, the utility has been completely removed from the supply function and is simply a transporter of...
Concentrated solar power (CSP) technology uses the energy in sunlight in a very different manner. It concentrates sunlight to create...
There are several uses for the term conductor within the electric industry. From a scientific standpoint, a conductor is any material...
Transmission congestion occurs when there is insufficient transmission capacity to simultaneously accommodate all requests for...
Construction work in progress, commonly called CWIP, is a balance sheet account in which all costs associated with the construction of...
A contingency is an unexpected failure or outage of a system component such as generator, transmission line, circuit breaker, or other...
The first step in the utility ratemaking process is a determination of the utility’s authorized rate of return, also known as its cost of...
The current in a circuit is the rate at which electrons are flowing through it. If you consider a water piping analogy, the rate at which...
A current transformer (CT) is used to reduce the current or voltage of an electric circuit so that the electric flow can be...
A curtailment is an event where energy services are temporarily unavailable. The term most commonly refers to an end-use customer’s gas...
A customer charge (also called a service charge or facility charge) is a fixed monthly charge that is applied to each utility account....
Traditionally, end users of gas or electricity have been categorized according to the rate class they were placed in by their local...
Day-ahead energy refers to electricity scheduled in the day prior to the actual day of flow. The day ahead is the common point at which...
Investor-owned utilities and other publicly traded companies typically finance their capital needs with a combination of debt and equity....
