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In a nuclear power plant, the disposable energy which could have been generated during a period, expressed as a percentage of the energy which could have been produced by a continuous power rate during the same period – essentially relates to the time a reactor spends off line owing to planned outages or unplanned stoppages.
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A pricing mechanism based on dividing the total cost of providing electricity incurred in a period by the number MWh (wholesale) and kWh (retail) sold in the same period.
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A market where the price for nearby delivery is higher than for further forward months. The opposite of backwardation is contango.
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Power plant, usually embedded, which produces both electric and thermal energy in the form of steam. See cogeneration.
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Brent cargoes are known as dated brent cargoes once they acquire a specific set of loading dates, usually at a point about two weeks from loading. Before this point, brent cargoes are typically traded generically as so-called 15-day brent. The dated brent market, which Platts assesses on a 7-15 day forward basis (7-17 days on a Friday), generates prices which have become a key benchmark for contract pricing of crude oil worldwide.
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Refining process to break large molecules into smaller ones. Principal cracking techniques are:
: Thermal cracking: Heating of hydrocarbons to very high temperatures, usually above 450ý C. Thermal cracking is no longer widely used, except in:
: Visbreaking: Thermal cracking of viscous crude residues to make fuel oil, and in:
: Delayed Coking: Thermal cracking of atmospheric/vacuum residues to make electrode grade coke.
: Catalytic cracking: Cracking using catalysts to enhance molecule breaking, particularly in the production of high octane gasoline.
: Hydrocracking: While thermal and catalytic cracking produce shorter hydrocarbon molecules largely by disposing of the excess carbon atoms, hydrocracking inserts hydrogen atoms to achieve the same effect.
: Steam cracking: A petrochemical process which produces olefins, particularly ethylene, and, in some cases, aromatics. Similar to thermal cracking
: Co-Cracking: A petrochemical process in which the c4 stream from an ethylene plant is recycled into the feedstock.
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Degree days are measured as the number of degrees above or below a standardized temperature on any given day. In winter, US traders track heating degree days week by week, or month by month, normally against a standard temperature of 65F, on the basis of how many degrees of heat are required to bring municipal office buildings up to this temperature. Five days of heating by 2 degrees, for example, equals 10 heating degree days. In summer, the market tracks cooling degree days.
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A competent national body set up in most Kyoto Protocol signatory countries to provide approval for CDM projects.
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A treaty of 163 countries, created in 1997. It requires 35 industrialized countries to reduce emissions of six greenhouse gases by at least 5% overall from 1990 levels by 2008-2012. Kyoto entered into force February 16, 2005.
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Material which can be converted into fissile material by the capture of a neutron. Sometimes referred to as source or breeder material, examples include uranium-238 and thorium-232.
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