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Administrative and general expenses are a sub-category of expenses incurred in the normal day-to-day operations of a business. Utility...
Administrative ratemaking is an alternative to cost-of-service ratemaking in which a government agency determines rates rather than...
An aggregator is an entity that combines end-use customers or distributed energy assets into groups for the purpose of participating in...
Allowance for funds used during construction, commonly called AFUDC, is a regulatory method of compensating a utility for the financing...
Amortization is the process of reducing or paying off a financial obligation with regular payments. An example is making equal monthly...
A method to convert biomass to gas is the natural process of anaerobic digestion/decomposition in a device called an anaerobic digester....
An aquifer is an underground body of rock, sand, or gravel that holds groundwater. In some areas natural aquifers have been converted to...
Some oil wells also produce natural gas along with the oil. The produced gas is called associated-dissolved gas, or more simply,...
Automated meter reading or AMR (also sometimes called automatic meter reading) combines the electronic capabilities of newer solid-state...
Backhaul is a contractual transaction where natural gas is moved on a pipeline in the opposite direction of flow. For example, on a...
A balance sheet is a financial snapshot of the value of the assets owned by a company and the liabilities owed by a company at a point in...
Users of natural gas are rarely able to forecast exactly how much gas they will need on a given day. Production rates go up and down,...
A balancing account is an accounting mechanism used by regulated utilities to keep track of the difference between projected expenses and...
Basis is a term used in energy trading to describe the difference between two methods of setting prices. Examples of basis include:...
In natural gas wholesale trading markets, bid week is the last five business days immediately preceding the first of each month. Although...
A biofuel is a renewable energy source made from organic matter or waste. Because biofuels can be carbon neutral, or even carbon...
A blowdown is the purposeful venting of natural gas to the atmosphere during well operations and/or during pipeline operations or...
A British thermal unit, or Btu, is a common measurement of energy and is often used to express the amount of energy contained in a...
The service that gas and electric end users receive is actually two services: commodity (which is the natural gas or electron flow) as...
The burner tip is the point in the natural gas delivery system where the gas is consumed. Often it is generically used to indicate once...
