- Settore: Energy
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The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
Tariff provisions which permit the grouping of delivery points for billing purposes. These provisions permit customers having multiple delivery points to fill up the "valleys" in gas takes at some points by taking in excess of contract demand at other points for resale industrial loads without paying additional demand charges for such excess volumes.
Industry:Energy
The joining of two pieces of pipe or other material by full penetration welds.
Industry:Energy
The term "hopkinson demand rate" applies to that method of charge which consists of a demand charge based upon demand (either estimated or measured) or connected load plus a commodity charge based upon the quantity of gas used.
Industry:Energy
A device for measuring the humidity in the air, employing a wet bulb and a dry bulb thermometer.
Industry:Energy
A method to allocate commodity costs by function to customer classes based on the Test Period volume level for that customer. See COST OF SERVICE.
Industry:Energy
A tapered projection, the position of which is fixed, coaxial with an orifice which can be moved with respect to it, to regulate the flow of gas.
Industry:Energy
Applicable to pipelines which have a PGA mechanism in effect. The Current Adjustment is a rate component in a pipeline's tariff used to reflect the difference between 1) the current weighted average projected purchased gas costs and 2) the weighted average projected purchased gas costs reflected in the effective period of the previous scheduled PGA.
Industry:Energy
In rate base determination. See ORIGINAL COST, HISTORICAL COST, WEIGHTED COST.
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