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A biofuel is a renewable energy source made from organic matter or waste. Because biofuels can be carbon neutral, or even carbon...
Biopower is created by the conversion of fuels derived from recently living organisms and/or municipal solid waste into energy in the...
Carbon negative refers to an entity or a process that has a net effect of removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. To achieve...
A clean energy standard, or CES, is a regulatory requirement obligating utilities, generation authorities, or load-serving entities to...
Climate change is defined as a long-term shift in global or regional climate patterns. A majority of the world’s scientific community and...
Cogeneration (which is a form of combined heat and power) uses a single fuel source to create two forms of energy: typically electricity...
Combined heat and power, or CHP, is the concurrent production of useful thermal energy (heating and/or cooling) and electricity or...
Concentrated solar power (CSP) technology uses the energy in sunlight in a very different manner. It concentrates sunlight to create...
A curtailment is an event where energy services are temporarily unavailable. The term most commonly refers to an end-use customer’s gas...
The United States Department of Energy is a cabinet-level executive department of the federal government responsible for energy policy...
Direct combustion is the controlled burning of biomass to create heat. The heat is then used to make steam, which spins a steam turbine...
The duck curve is the name given to the shape of the net load curve in a market with a significant penetration of solar energy. The net...
Economic dispatch, also called least-cost economic dispatch, is the operation of generation facilities to reliably produce energy at the...
The energy used in an electrical system is measured at the retail level in units of kilowatt-hours or kWh. At the wholesale market level...
A fixed cost remains basically constant regardless of the level of output or operation in a company over a short period of time (one to a...
Gasification is a process that creates a gaseous fuel that then is used to fuel a power plant. Here's how this works. Biomass is gasified...
Geothermal power is created by the conversion of thermal energy in the earth to energy in the form of electricity. There are various...
Geothermal resources are used as a source of hot water or steam for geothermal power plants. There are three sources of geothermal heat...
In the future some residential energy consumers may become “prosumers,” who are both providers and consumers of electric grid services....
Hydrokinetic power is electricity derived by converting the kinetic energy of moving water into electricity. Hydrokinetic power uses the...
