This quick reference contains nearly 4, 000 industry terms and phrases commonly used in generation, transmission, distribution, and their relationship to business and billing. Environmental terms and phrases relevant to the electric power industry, conversion tables, as well as a table of the chemical elements and their associated symbols and weights, are also included for your convenience.
As the energy market restructures into a significantly more competitive industry, many energy companies are considering distributed generation (DG) as part of a new customer-focused corporate strategy. Chambers, et al cover the technologies associated with DG including diesel engines, gas-fired internal combustion generator sets, fuel cell systems, micro-turbines, and photovoltaic systems in easy-to-understand language. Contents: ? Introductio...
Ann Chambers gives you a history of these two converging industries and an overview of the factors forcing them together?political, regulatory, technical, and economic. She covers other fuels competing for market share in the electric industry, the merchant power uprising, distributed generation, and strategies for creating value in the new Btu stream. Contents: ? Introduction ? Natural gas history ? Transportation and storage ? Exploration, d...
Drawing from her expertise on energy matters, Chambers delivers an unparalleled guide to this emerging market and provides readers with everything needed for a solid understanding of renewable energy.
Bubba Lee McBride, a fifth-generation rancher, decides to move to the Caribbean with his sister. He plans to become a sea captain and soon becomes known as Captain Cowboy. After he's shipwrecked on a remote Caribbean island, he finds the love of his life.
Each book will offer complete coverage of one culture, including sections on art, music, food, festivals, fashion, ornament, and architecture. The engaging text offers both an overview and also explains in detail particular aspects of the culture-what it means, why it was created, and what it's used for or what it represents.
John F. Patterson founded Pinedale in 1904 after proposing the establishment of a town along Pine Creek in western Wyoming. Patterson offered to build and stock a general store if local ranchers Charles Petersen and Robert Graham would donate five acres each for the site. Petersen and Graham agreed to this plan, a surveyor was hired, and Pinedaleanamed after the post office on Petersenas ranchawas officially established. Free town lots were of...
