- Industry: Energy
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California’s primary energy policy and planning agency
A unit of illuminance on a surface that is one foot from a uniform point source of light of one candle and is equal to one lumen per square foot.
Industry:Energy
Enclosed space that is either directly conditioned space or indirectly conditioned space. (See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2-5302)
Industry:Energy
A nuclear power unit that uses ordinary water to cool its core. The LWR may be a boiling water reactor or a pressurized water reactor.
Industry:Energy
A central furnace equipped with a fan or blower that provides the primary means for circulation of air.
Industry:Energy
An enclosed space that is provided with heating equipment that has a capacity exceeding 10 Btus/(hr-ft2), or with cooling equipment that has a capacity exceeding 10 Btus/(hr-ft2). An exception is if the heating and cooling equipment is designed and thermostatically controlled to maintain a process environment temperature less than 65 degrees Fahrenheit or greater than 85 degrees Fahrenheit for the whole space the equipment serves. (See California Code of Regulations, Title 24, Section 2- 5302)
Industry:Energy
Brownish black coal having qualities in between those of bituminous coal and peat. The texture of the original wood often is visible in lignite.
Industry:Energy
(AC) Flow of electricity that constantly changes direction between positive and negative sides. Almost all power produced by electric utilities in the United States moves in current that shifts direction at a rate of 60 times per second.
Industry:Energy
Oil, coal, natural gas or their by-products. Fuel that was formed in the earth in prehistoric times from remains of living-cell organisms.
Industry:Energy
Enclosed space that: (1) has a greater area weighted heat transfer coefficient (u-value) between it and directly conditioned spaces than between it and the outdoors or unconditioned space; (2) has air transferred from directly conditioned space moving through it at a rate exceeding three air changes per hour.
Industry:Energy
