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U.S. Energy Information Administration
Settore: Energy
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The total distance traveled by all passengers. It is calculated as the product of the occupancy rate in vehicles and the vehicle miles traveled.
Industry:Energy
The raw materials and intermediate materials processed at refineries to produce finished petroleum products. They include crude oil, products of natural gas processing plants, unfinished oils, other hydrocarbons and oxygenates, motor gasoline and aviation gasoline blending components and finished petroleum products.
Industry:Energy
Steam produced at a combined heat and power plant for the purpose of heating and/or cooling space, such as district heating systems.
Industry:Energy
The combination within a firm or business enterprise of one or more stages of production or distribution. In the electric industry, it refers to the historical arrangement whereby a utility owns its own generating plants, transmission system, and distribution lines to provide all aspects of electric service.
Industry:Energy
A solar heating system that uses no external mechanical power, such as pumps or blowers, tomove the collected solar heat.
Industry:Energy
Processing gain and loss that takes place during the refining process itself. Excludes losses that do not take place during the refining process, e.g., spills, fire losses, and contamination during blending, transportation, or storage.
Industry:Energy
Steam purchased, transferred from another department of the utility, or acquired from others under a joint-facility operating agreement.
Industry:Energy
A type of wind turbine in which the axis of rotation is perpendicular to the wind stream and the ground.
Industry:Energy
The amounts payable by the utility department to the municipality or its other departments that are subject to current settlement.
Industry:Energy
The total amount of petroleum products produced at a refinery. Includes petroleum consumed by the refinery.
Industry:Energy