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American Gas Association
Settore: Energy
Number of terms: 18218
Number of blossaries: 1
Company Profile:
The American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the United States.
To ascertain, usually by comparison with a standard, the locations at which scale or chart graduations should be placed to correspond to a series of values of the quantity which the instrument is to measure, receive or transmit. Also, to adjust the output of a device, to bring it to a desired value, within a specified tolerance for a particular value of the input. Also, to ascertain the error in the output of a device by checking it against a standard.
Industry:Energy
A discount from standard commercial and industrial rates for takes above a minimum level for new or expanded service within an existing service area.
Industry:Energy
A pair of mating flanges equipped with insulating materials in a manner so that there is no electrical continuity between the flanges when installed.
Industry:Energy
A unit of heating value equivalent to 10 therms or 1,000,000 Btu's.
Industry:Energy
Changing the gas service to ultimate customers from a fuel other than natural gas to natural gas, including adjustment of consumers' appliances to perform satisfactorily with natural gas. Natural gas does not necessarily mean straight natural gas; stabilizing the heat content of the sendout gas by diluent gases or enriching gases is not considered to change the basic character of natural gas. For the purpose of uniform reporting, a company should be considered a natural gas company when 95 percent of the system has been converted.
Industry:Energy
Limits placed on operating conditions of a machine, apparatus, or device based on its design characteristics.
Industry:Energy
See DEMAND DIVERSITY.
Industry:Energy
The ability of plastic pipe to withstand fungi growth and/or their metabolic products under normal conditions of service or laboratory tests simulating such conditions.
Industry:Energy
The maximum rate that an open-access transporter may charge for its services. Section 284.7(c) of the Commission's regulations states that maximum rates for both peak and off-peak periods should ration capacity during peak periods and maximize throughput.
Industry:Energy
The transportation of customer-owned gas by a transmission company for the customer at a pre-determined cost to the customer.
Industry:Energy