Glossary
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- Definition: 2-M Probe Survey
- Definition: Accommodation Zone
- Definition: Acoustic Logs
- Definition: Acoustic Televiewer
- Definition: Active Seismic Techniques
- Definition: Active Sensors
- Definition: Adaptive Protection
- Definition: Adequacy
- Definition: Adjacent Balancing Authority
- Definition: Advanced Interrupting Switch
- Definition: Advanced Metering Infrastructure
- Definition: Advanced Metering Infrastructure (Ami) / Smart Meters
- Definition: Advanced Transmission Applications
- Definition: Adverse Reliability Impact
- Definition: Aerial Photography
- Definition: Aeromagnetic Survey
- Definition: Air Cooling
- Definition: Airborne Gravity Survey
- Definition: Algae
- Definition: Algae fuel
- Definition: Alternating current
- Definition: Alternative-fuel vehicle
- Definition: Alternator
- Definition: Altitude Correction Factor
- Definition: Alunite
- Definition: Ampere
- Definition: Analytical Modeling
- Definition: Ancillary Service
- Definition: Ancillary Services Revenue
- Definition: Angle of incidence
- Definition: Anode
- Definition: Anthracite coal
- Definition: Anti-Aliasing Filter
- Definition: Apex or Salient of Normal Fault
- Definition: Area Control Error
- Definition: Argillic-Advanced Argillic Alteration
- Definition: Arranged Interchange
- Definition: Artesian Well
- Definition: Audio-Magnetotellurics
- Definition: Automated Capacitors
- Definition: Automated Distribution Circuit Switches
- Definition: Automated Feeder And Line Switching
- Definition: Automated Islanding And Reconnection
- Definition: Automated Voltage And Var Control
- Definition: Automated Voltage Regulators
- Definition: Automatic Generation Control
- Definition: Available Transfer Capability
- Definition: Azimuth
- Definition: Backhaul Communications
- Definition: Balancing Authority
- Definition: Balancing Authority Area
- Definition: Base Load
- Definition: Battery
- Definition: Bes Emergency
- Definition: Biodiesel
- Definition: Bioenergy
- Definition: Biofuels
- Definition: Biomass
- Definition: Biomass Briquettes
- Definition: Biomass Cook Stove
- Definition: Biopower
- Definition: Biorefinery
- Definition: Bituminous coal
- Definition: Black Liquor
- Definition: Blackstart Capability Plan
- Definition: Blind Geothermal System
- Definition: Borehole CCTV
- Definition: Borehole Seismic Techniques
- Definition: Brayton cycle
- Definition: Briquettes
- Definition: British thermal unit
- Definition: Brophy Occurrence Models
- Definition: Bulk Electric System
- Definition: Burden
- Definition: CD-1: Intracratonic Basin
- Definition: CD-2: Orogenic Belt
- Definition: CD-3: Crystalline Rock - Basement
- Definition: CV-1: Magmatic Geothermal Play Type
- Definition: CV-1a: Magmatic - Extrusive
- Definition: CV-1b: Magmatic - Intrusive
- Definition: CV-2: Plutonic Geothermal Play Type
- Definition: CV-2a: Plutonic - Recent or Active Volcanism
- Definition: CV-2b: Plutonic - Inactive Volcanism
- Definition: CV-3: Extensional Domain
- Definition: Caldera Depression
- Definition: Caliper Log
- Definition: Capacity Benefit Margin
- Definition: Capacity Emergency
- Definition: Capacity Revenue
- Definition: Capacity factor
- Definition: Carbonate Deposition
- Definition: Cascading Outage
- Definition: Cathode
- Definition: Cellulosic ethanol
- Definition: Cement Bond Log
- Definition: Chemical Logging
- Definition: Chemical energy
- Definition: Cinder Cone
- Definition: Circuit Peak Load Management
- Definition: Clock Hour
- Definition: Co-Produced Geothermal System
- Definition: Coal
- Definition: Cogeneration
- Definition: Coke
- Definition: Combined heat and power
- Definition: Combustion
- Definition: Commercial Loans
- Definition: Commercial Scale Wind
- Definition: Community Wind
- Definition: Compliance Monitor
- Definition: Composition Analysis
- Definition: Compound and Elemental Analysis
- Definition: Concentrating solar power
- Definition: Conceptual Model
- Definition: Conduction-Dominated Geothermal Systems
- Definition: Confirmed Interchange
- Definition: Congestion Management Report
- Definition: Constrained Facility
- Definition: Contingency
- Definition: Contingency Reserve
- Definition: Contract Path
- Definition: Control Performance Standard
- Definition: Controllable and Regulating Inverter
- Definition: Controllable/Regulating Inverter
- Definition: Controlled Source Audio MT
- Definition: Controlled Source Frequency-Domain Magnetics
- Definition: Convection-Dominated Geothermal Systems
- Definition: Core Analysis
- Definition: Core Holes
- Definition: Corrective Action Plan
- Definition: Cranking Path
- Definition: Critical Assets
- Definition: Critical Cyber Assets
- Definition: Critical Peak Pricing
- Definition: Critical Peak Rebates
- Definition: Cross-Dipole Acoustic Log
- Definition: Curtailment
- Definition: Curtailment Threshold
- Definition: Customer Electricity Use Optimization
- Definition: Customer Ems/Display/Portal
- Definition: Customer Energy Management Device and System
- Definition: Customer System Communications Network
- Definition: Customer Web Portal
- Definition: Cuttings Analysis
- Definition: Cyber Assets
- Definition: Cyber Security Incident
- Definition: DC Resistivity Survey (Dipole-Dipole Array)
- Definition: DC Resistivity Survey (Mise-Á-La-Masse)
- Definition: DC Resistivity Survey (Pole-Dipole Array)
- Definition: DC Resistivity Survey (Schlumberger Array)
- Definition: DC Resistivity Survey (Wenner Array)
- Definition: Data Acquisition-Manipulation
- Definition: Data Collection and Mapping
- Definition: Data Techniques
- Definition: Data and Modeling Techniques
- Definition: Daylighting
- Definition: Deferred Distribution Capacity Investments
- Definition: Deferred Generation Capacity Investments
- Definition: Deferred Transmission Capacity Investments
- Definition: Delayed Fault Clearing
- Definition: Demand
- Definition: Demand Side Management
- Definition: Density Log
- Definition: Development Drilling
- Definition: Diagnosis & Notification Of Equipment Condition
- Definition: Diesel fuel
- Definition: Digester Gas
- Definition: Direct Control Load Management
- Definition: Direct Load Control Device
- Definition: Direct current
- Definition: Direct normal irradiance
- Definition: Direct-Current Resistivity Survey
- Definition: Dispatchable
- Definition: Dispersed Load By Substations
- Definition: Displacement Transfer Zone
- Definition: Distributed Energy Resource
- Definition: Distributed generation
- Definition: Distribution Automation
- Definition: Distribution Automation Communications Network
- Definition: Distribution Factor
- Definition: Distribution Management System
- Definition: Distribution Provider
- Definition: District chilled water
- Definition: District heat
- Definition: Disturbance
- Definition: Disturbance Control Standard
- Definition: Disturbance Monitoring Equipment
- Definition: Downhole Fluid Sampling
- Definition: Downhole Techniques
- Definition: Drilling Techniques
- Definition: Dynamic Capability Rating
- Definition: Dynamic Capability Rating System
- Definition: Dynamic Interchange Schedule Or Dynamic Schedule
- Definition: Dynamic Pricing Program
- Definition: Dynamic Transfer
- Definition: Earth Tidal Analysis
- Definition: Economic Dispatch
- Definition: Electric Vehicle Charging Station
- Definition: Electric current
- Definition: Electric generator
- Definition: Electric grid
- Definition: Electric power
- Definition: Electric utility
- Definition: Electrical Energy
- Definition: Electrical Methods
- Definition: Electrical Profiling Configurations
- Definition: Electrical Techniques
- Definition: Electricity
- Definition: Electricity Storage Technologies
- Definition: Electricity generation
- Definition: Electrode
- Definition: Electrolyte
- Definition: Electromagnetic Profiling Techniques
- Definition: Electromagnetic Sounding Techniques
- Definition: Electromagnetic Techniques
- Definition: Electronic Security Perimeter
- Definition: Element
- Definition: Emergency Or Bes Emergency
- Definition: Emergency Rating
- Definition: Energy
- Definition: Energy Emergency
- Definition: Energy Management Device
- Definition: Energy Poverty
- Definition: Energy Revenue
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- Definition: Enhanced Fault Detection Technology
- Definition: Enhanced Fault Protection
- Definition: Enhanced Geothermal Systems
- Definition: Equipment Condition Monitor
- Definition: Equipment Health Sensor
- Definition: Equipment Rating
- Definition: Ethanol
- Definition: Evaporative Cooling
- Definition: Exploration Drilling
- Definition: Exploratory Boreholes
- Definition: Exploratory Well
- Definition: Extensional Tectonics
- Definition: FLIR
- Definition: FMI Log
- Definition: Facility
- Definition: Facility Rating
- Definition: Facts Device
- Definition: Fault
- Definition: Fault Current Limiter
- Definition: Fault Current Limiting
- Definition: Fault Intersection
- Definition: Fault Mapping
- Definition: Federal Register
- Definition: Field Mapping-Structural Analysis
- Definition: Field Sampling
- Definition: Field Techniques
- Definition: Firm Demand
- Definition: Firm Transmission Service
- Definition: Flat
- Definition: Flow Test
- Definition: Flowgate
- Definition: Fluid Inclusion Analysis
- Definition: Fluid Lab Analysis
- Definition: Forced Outage
- Definition: Forward-Looking Infrared
- Definition: Fossil fuels
- Definition: Frequency Bias
- Definition: Frequency Bias Setting
- Definition: Frequency Deviation
- Definition: Frequency Error
- Definition: Frequency Regulation
- Definition: Frequency Response
- Definition: Frequency-Domain Electromagnetic Survey
- Definition: Frequency-Domain Electromagnetics Survey
- Definition: Fuel cell
- Definition: Fumaroles
- Definition: Gamma Log
- Definition: Gas Flux Sampling
- Definition: Gas Sampling
- Definition: Generator Operator
- Definition: Generator Owner
- Definition: Generator Shift Factor
- Definition: Generator-To-Load Distribution Factor
- Definition: Geodetic Survey
- Definition: Geographic Information System
- Definition: Geophysical Methods
- Definition: Geophysical Techniques
- Definition: Geothermal Direct Use
- Definition: Geothermal Literature Review
- Definition: Geothermal energy
- Definition: Geothermometry
- Definition: Geysers
- Definition: Global horizontal irradiance
- Definition: Gravity Techniques
- Definition: Gross generation
- Definition: Ground Electromagnetic Techniques
- Definition: Ground Gravity Survey
- Definition: Ground Magnetics
- Definition: Ground Source Heat Pumps
- Definition: Groundwater Sampling
- Definition: HVAC
- Definition: Hand-held X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)
- Definition: Head-End System
- Definition: Heat
- Definition: Heat exchanger
- Definition: Heat pump
- Definition: Home Area Network
- Definition: Horst and Graben
- Definition: Host Balancing Authority
- Definition: Hot Spot
- Definition: Hot Springs
- Definition: Hydraulic Conductivity
- Definition: Hydraulic Fracturing
- Definition: Hydroelectric power
- Definition: Hydroprobe
- Definition: Hydrothermal Reservoir
- Definition: Hydrothermal Systems
- Definition: Hydrothermally Altered Rock
- Definition: Hydrothermally Deposited Rock
- Definition: Hyperspectral Imaging
- Definition: Image Logs
- Definition: Implemented Interchange
- Definition: InSAR
- Definition: Inadvertent Interchange
- Definition: Independent Power Producer
- Definition: Information Service
- Definition: Injectivity Test
- Definition: Insolation
- Definition: Instrument
- Definition: Interchange
- Definition: Interchange Authority
- Definition: Interchange Distribution Calculator
- Definition: Interchange Schedule
- Definition: Interchange Transaction
- Definition: Interchange Transaction Tag Or Tag
- Definition: Interconnected Operations Service
- Definition: Interconnection
- Definition: Interconnection Reliability Operating Limit
- Definition: Interconnection Reliability Operating Limit Tv
- Definition: Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
- Definition: Intermediate Balancing Authority
- Definition: Interruptible Load Or Interruptible Demand
- Definition: Inverter
- Definition: Investment Grant Program
- Definition: Irradiance
- Definition: Isotopic Analysis
- Definition: Isotopic Analysis- Fluid
- Definition: Isotopic Analysis- Rock
- Definition: Joint Control
- Definition: Joule
- Definition: Kilowatt
- Definition: Kilowatt-hour
- Definition: Lab Analysis Techniques
- Definition: Lava Dome
- Definition: Leach Capping
- Definition: Lead-acid battery
- Definition: LiDAR
- Definition: Limiting Element
- Definition: Line Transformer Monitors
- Definition: Liquid natural gas
- Definition: Load
- Definition: Load Shift Factor
- Definition: Load-Serving Entity
- Definition: Loading Monitor
- Definition: Long-Wave Infrared
- Definition: Macrophotography
- Definition: Magmatic Geothermal Play Type
- Definition: Magnetic Techniques
- Definition: Magnetotelluric Techniques
- Definition: Magnetotellurics
- Definition: Major Normal Fault
- Definition: Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy
- Definition: Mechanical energy
- Definition: Mercury Vapor
- Definition: Meter Communications Network
- Definition: Meter Data Analysis System
- Definition: Meter Data Management System
- Definition: Micro-Earthquake
- Definition: Micro/Nano Hydro
- Definition: Microgravity-Hybrid Microgravity
- Definition: Microgrid Controller
- Definition: Microgrids
- Definition: Microhole Array
- Definition: Mid-Size Wind Turbines
- Definition: Misoperation
- Definition: Mode Meter
- Definition: Modeling Techniques
- Definition: Modeling-Computer Simulations
- Definition: Modern Geothermal Features
- Definition: Moeck-Beardsmore Play Types
- Definition: Mountainous
- Definition: Mud Logging
- Definition: Mudpots, Mud Pools, or Mud Volcanoes
- Definition: Multicomponent Geothermometers
- Definition: Multispectral Imaging
- Definition: Nameplate Capacity
- Definition: Native Load
- Definition: Natural gas
- Definition: Near Infrared Surveys
- Definition: Net Actual Interchange
- Definition: Net Energy For Load
- Definition: Net Interchange Schedule
- Definition: Net Scheduled Interchange
- Definition: Net Zero
- Definition: Net generation
- Definition: Network Integration Transmission Service
- Definition: Neutron Log
- Definition: Non-Firm Transmission Service
- Definition: Non-Spinning Reserve
- Definition: Non-Tectonic
- Definition: Normal Clearing
- Definition: Normal Rating
- Definition: Numerical Modeling
- Definition: Observation Wells
- Definition: Off-Peak
- Definition: Offshore Wind
- Definition: Offshore Wind Energy
- Definition: On-Peak
- Definition: Open Access Same Time Information Service
- Definition: Open Access Transmission Tariff
- Definition: Operating Plan
- Definition: Operating Procedure
- Definition: Operating Process
- Definition: Operating Reserve
- Definition: Operating Reserve - Spinning
- Definition: Operating Reserve - Supplemental
- Definition: Operating Voltage
- Definition: Optical Televiewer
- Definition: Optimized Generator Operation
- Definition: Outage Detection/Reporting
- Definition: Outage Management System
- Definition: Overlap Regulation Service
- Definition: PSInSAR
- Definition: PV array
- Definition: PV module
- Definition: Paleomagnetic Measurements
- Definition: Parabolic trough
- Definition: Passive Seismic Techniques
- Definition: Passive Sensors
- Definition: Passive Solar
- Definition: Passive solar
- Definition: Passive solar heating
- Definition: Peak Demand
- Definition: Penetration Rate
- Definition: Performance-Reset Period
- Definition: Petrography Analysis
- Definition: Petroleum
- Definition: Petroleum coke
- Definition: Phase Angle Regulating Transformer
- Definition: Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC)
- Definition: Phasor Measurement Technology
- Definition: Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU)
- Definition: Photovoltaics
- Definition: Physical Security Perimeter
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- Definition: Planning Authority
- Definition: Plug-in Electric Vehicle Charging Station
- Definition: Plutonic Geothermal Play Type
- Definition: Point Absorber
- Definition: Point Of Delivery
- Definition: Point Of Receipt
- Definition: Point To Point Transmission Service
- Definition: Portable X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)
- Definition: Power
- Definition: Power Flow Control
- Definition: Power density
- Definition: Pressure Temperature Log
- Definition: Pro Forma Tariff
- Definition: Production Wells
- Definition: Programmable Communicating Thermostat
- Definition: Protection System
- Definition: Pseudo-Tie
- Definition: Pull-Apart in Strike-Slip Fault Zone
- Definition: Purchasing-Selling Entity
- Definition: Quad
- Definition: Radar
- Definition: Radiometrics
- Definition: Ramp Rate(Generator)
- Definition: Ramp Rate(Schedule)
- Definition: Rankine cycle
- Definition: Rated Electrical Operating Conditions
- Definition: Rated power
- Definition: Rating
- Definition: Reactive Power
- Definition: Real Power
- Definition: Real-Time Load Measurement And Management
- Definition: Real-Time Load Transfer
- Definition: Real-time Pricing
- Definition: Reallocation
- Definition: Receiving Balancing Authority
- Definition: Reduced Ancillary Service Cost
- Definition: Reduced Co2 Emissions
- Definition: Reduced Congestion Cost
- Definition: Reduced Electricity Cost
- Definition: Reduced Electricity Losses
- Definition: Reduced Electricity Theft
- Definition: Reduced Equipment Failures
- Definition: Reduced Major Outages
- Definition: Reduced Meter Reading Cost
- Definition: Reduced Momentary Outages
- Definition: Reduced Oil Usage (Not Monetized)
- Definition: Reduced Restoration Cost
- Definition: Reduced Sags And Swells
- Definition: Reduced Sox, Nox, And Pm-2.5 Emissions
- Definition: Reduced Sustained Outages
- Definition: Reduced T&D Equipment Maintenance Cost
- Definition: Reduced T&D Operations Cost
- Definition: Reduced Wide-Scale Blackouts
- Definition: Reflection Survey
- Definition: Refraction Survey
- Definition: Regional Demonstration Projects
- Definition: Regional Reliability Organization
- Definition: Regional Reliability Plan
- Definition: Regulating Reserve
- Definition: Regulation Service
- Definition: Reliability Coordinator
- Definition: Reliability Coordinator Area
- Definition: Reliability Coordinator Information System
- Definition: Relict Geothermal Features
- Definition: Remote Fault Indicators
- Definition: Remote Sensing Techniques
- Definition: Remote Service Switch
- Definition: Renewable Energy Forecasting Tool
- Definition: Renewable Energy Technical Potential
- Definition: Reportable Disturbance
- Definition: Request For Interchange
- Definition: Reserve Sharing Group
- Definition: Resistivity Log
- Definition: Resource Planner
- Definition: Response Rate
- Definition: Resurgent Dome Complex
- Definition: Rift Zone
- Definition: Right-Of-Way (Row)
- Definition: Rock Density
- Definition: Rock Lab Analysis
- Definition: Rock Sampling
- Definition: SAR
- Definition: SRT
- Definition: SWIR
- Definition: Scheduling Entity
- Definition: Scheduling Path
- Definition: School field trip to Wind Turbines near Seboyeta, NM
- Definition: Sedimentary Geothermal Systems
- Definition: Seismic Techniques
- Definition: Self-Potential (SP)
- Definition: Semiconductor
- Definition: Sending Balancing Authority
- Definition: Sensor
- Definition: Shield Volcano
- Definition: Shuttle Radar Topography
- Definition: Silica Deposition
- Definition: Silicification
- Definition: Single-Well And Cross-Well Seismic Imaging
- Definition: Single-Well and Cross-Well Resistivity
- Definition: Sink Balancing Authority
- Definition: Slim Holes
- Definition: Small Scale Wind
- Definition: Smart Appliance
- Definition: Smart Appliances And Equipment (Customer)
- Definition: Smart Relays
- Definition: Smart grid
- Definition: Software - Advanced Analysis/Visualization
- Definition: Soil Gas Sampling
- Definition: Soil Sampling
- Definition: Solar Cooking
- Definition: Solar Lanterns
- Definition: Solar Water Heating
- Definition: Solar cell
- Definition: Solar energy
- Definition: Solar radiation
- Definition: Source Balancing Authority
- Definition: Special Protection System
- Definition: Spinning Reserve
- Definition: Splash Zone
- Definition: Spontaneous Potential Well Log
- Definition: SqueeSAR
- Definition: Stability
- Definition: Stability Limit
- Definition: Static Temperature Survey
- Definition: Step-out Well
- Definition: Stepout-Deepening Wells
- Definition: Stepover or Relay Ramp in Normal Fault Zones
- Definition: Stereo Satellite Imagery
- Definition: Stoneley Analysis
- Definition: Stratovolcano
- Definition: Stress Test
- Definition: Strike-Slip
- Definition: Subduction Zone
- Definition: Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
- Definition: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Communications Network
- Definition: Supplemental Regulation Service
- Definition: Surface Gas Sampling
- Definition: Surface Water Sampling
- Definition: Surge
- Definition: Sustainability
- Definition: Sustained Outage
- Definition: Synchrophasor Communications Network
- Definition: Synthetic Aperture Radar
- Definition: System
- Definition: System Operating Limit
- Definition: Tar Sands
- Definition: Tectonic Settings
- Definition: Telemetering
- Definition: Teleseismic-Seismic Monitoring
- Definition: Telluric Survey
- Definition: Termination of a Major Normal Fault
- Definition: Therm
- Definition: Thermal Gradient Holes
- Definition: Thermal Ion Dispersion
- Definition: Thermal Overload Monitoring
- Definition: Thermal Rating
- Definition: Thermal energy
- Definition: Thermochronometry
- Definition: Thermodynamic cycle
- Definition: Thermoelectric power generation
- Definition: Tidal Power
- Definition: Tie Line
- Definition: Tie Line Bias
- Definition: Time Error
- Definition: Time Error Correction
- Definition: Time-Based Rate Program
- Definition: Time-Domain Electromagnetics
- Definition: Time-of-use Pricing
- Definition: Tlr Log
- Definition: Topographic Features
- Definition: Total Transfer Capability
- Definition: Trace Element Analysis
- Definition: Tracer Testing
- Definition: Transducer
- Definition: Transfer Capability
- Definition: Transformer
- Definition: Transmission
- Definition: Transmission Angle and Frequency Monitoring
- Definition: Transmission Constraint
- Definition: Transmission Customer
- Definition: Transmission Line
- Definition: Transmission Line Monitoring System
- Definition: Transmission Operator
- Definition: Transmission Owner
- Definition: Transmission Planner
- Definition: Transmission Reliability
- Definition: Transmission Reliability Margin
- Definition: Transmission Service
- Definition: Transmission Service Provider
- Definition: Transmission System Operator
- Definition: Turbine
- Definition: Two-Way Communications (High Bandwidth)
- Definition: Utility-Scale Wind Turbines
- Definition: Variable Peak Pricing
- Definition: Vehicle to Grid Charging Station
- Definition: Vertical Electrical Sounding Configurations
- Definition: Vertical Flowmeter Test
- Definition: Vertical Seismic Profiling
- Definition: Very Low Impedance (Hts) Cables
- Definition: Volt
- Definition: Voltage Stability Monitoring
- Definition: Volume
- Definition: Warm or Steaming Ground
- Definition: Water Cooling
- Definition: Water Sampling
- Definition: Water Wheels
- Definition: Watt
- Definition: Well Deepening
- Definition: Well Log Techniques
- Definition: Well Testing Techniques
- Definition: Wide Area
- Definition: Wide Area Monitoring, Visualization, & Control
- Definition: Wind energy
- Definition: Wind power
- Definition: Wind rose
- Definition: Workforce Training
- Definition: X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)
- Definition: X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)
- Definition: Yaw
- Definition: Yaw drive
- Definition: Z-Axis Tipper Electromagnetics
- Definition: Zeolitic Alteration