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A sudden breakout of prices from a chart pattern that has been forming for some time. It marks the end of a period of uncertainty. The breakout point can often be used to guess how far prices will go in that direction.
Industry:Energy
A periodic current, the average value of which over a period is zero. Typically refers to a current that reverses its direction at regularly recurring intervals of time and that has alternately positive and negative values. Almost all electricity utilities generate AC electricity because it can easily be transformed to higher or lower voltages.
Industry:Energy
Any service required by a system operator to deliver electricity to the ultimate consumer. Ancillary services include balancing services, load following, or providing kilovars (reactive power).
Industry:Energy
The tendency of electricity to flow along the path of least resistance, which may not necessarily be the same as that intended in the contract between the two transmitting entities. If power sold along a contractual path goes a different physical path, the power-flow may interfere with control of the systems which were unaware of the contractual power transfer.
Industry:Energy
A vessel carrying oil, usually on rivers, containing between 8,000 and 50,000 bbl, or weighing 1,000 to 10,000 tonnes. In the US, barges can be up to, and occasionally over, 100,000 bbl in capacity.
Industry:Energy
The maximum load-carrying ability of a power plant under specified conditions for a given time interval. Capability is determined by design characteristics, physical conditions, energy supply and operating limitations such as cooling and circulating water supply and temperature, headwater and tailwater elevations, and electrical use.
Industry:Energy
The unit of measurement of electrical resistance. The resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
Industry:Energy
An international treaty signed in 1992, of which the Kyoto Protocol is an amendment. As of December 2009, the UNFCCC comprised 193 parties.
Industry:Energy
Chemicals derived from petroleum; feedstocks for the manufacture of plastics and synthetic rubber. Petrochemicals include benzene, toluene, xylene, styrene, and methanol. Abbreviations for the major petrochemicals are:
: AA Acetic acid
: ACN Acrylonitrile
: ABS Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene
: BD Butadiene
: CC4s Crude C4s
: IPA Iso-propyl-alcohol
: IBA Iso-butanol
: MEG Monoethylene glycol
: MEK Methyl ethyl ketone
: MIBK Methyl isobutyl ketone
: MMA Methyl methacrylate
: MDI Diphenyl methane diisocyanate
: MX Mixed xylene
: NBA Normal butanol
: PE Polyethylene
: LDPE Low density polyethlene
: LLDPE Linear low density polyethylene
: HDPE High density polyethylene
: PP Polypropylene
: PS Polystyrene
: PVC Polyvinyl chloride
: SX Solvent xylene
: TDI Toluene diisocyanate
: VX Virgin xylene.
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