- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 18218
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
A method to determine the cost of common equity component of return using the bond yield plus a risk premium based on selected stock market yields to bond yields. Also called BOND YIELD RISK DIFFERENTIAL.
Industry:Energy
A tee is a customer's service piping with one leg closed and used for access to the service pipe in case of plugging with solids. Also, a tee used for making a hot tap on a main to supply a service.
Industry:Energy
As applied to gas, a given consumption of gas remaining fairly constant over a period of time, usually not temperature-sensitive.
Industry:Energy
In the cryogenic area, e.g. LNG, subcooling is the cooling of liquid to below its saturation temperature for the pressure under consideration. In practice, subcooling has the effect of reducing boil-off in LNG storage and transportation.
Industry:Energy
Term used in Part 284 of the Regulations to refer to a state agency which regulates intrastate pipelines and local distribution companies within such state. When used in reference to rates and charges, the term includes only those agencies which set rates and charges on a cost-of-service basis.
Industry:Energy
The legal principle that protects regulated customers from receiving retroactive rate hikes.
Industry:Energy
The term "straight fixed variable rate design" refers to a method of determining demand and commodity rates whereby all costs classified as fixed are assigned to the demand component.
Industry:Energy
A device for the final release of air/gas, or oxygen/gas mixtures, or air and gas separately into the combustion zone. Gas burners may be classed as atmospheric burners or blast (pressure) burners.
Industry:Energy
A method to determine the cost of common equity component of return using the cost of capital of other investments of similar risk.
Industry:Energy
