- Industry: Energy
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All costs associated with the lowest cost incremental unit including variable production costs and capital costs.
Industry:Energy
The management of load patterns in order to better use the system. Generally, load management attempts to shift load from peak use periods to other periods of the day or year.
Industry:Energy
Theory of market movement developed by Charles Dow that prices move in defined trends of successive higher peaks and higher troughs in an uptrend, and lower peaks and lower troughs in a downtrend. Dow divides trends into primary, secondary and minor. Volume patterns are associated with specific points in a trend. Dow theory is the foundation of most modern technical theory.
Industry:Energy
An element with atomic number 90. It may be used as a fertile material in a nuclear reactor as the irradiation of thorium-232 with neutrons produces uranium-233, an artificial fissile material like plutonium-239.
Industry:Energy
A fine, powdery product of the milling process containing valuable metal and from which most of the waste material in the ore has been eliminated and discarded as tailings. Often abbreviated to concs.
Industry:Energy
An intermediate distillate product used for diesel fuel, heating fuel and sometimes as feedstock. In US parlance: No. 2 Heating Oil.
Industry:Energy
The simultaneous purchase of a commodity/derivative in one market and the sale of the same, or similar, commodity/derivative in another market in order to exploit price differentials.
Industry:Energy
The flow of electric current without resistance in certain metals and alloys at temperatures near absolute zero. Perpetual motion on an atomic scale; the conduction of electricity without the slightest power loss; perfect conductivity.
Industry:Energy
