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A term generally applied to individual solar collectors, and typically to solar photovoltaic collectors or modules.
Industry:Energy
A term for the process of transmitting electricity over transmission lines not owned by the supplier of the electricity to a retail customer of the supplier. With retail wheeling, an electricity consumer can secure their own supply of electricity from a broker or directly from the generating source. The power is then wheeled at a fixed rate, or at a regulated "non-discriminatory" rate set by a utility commission.
Industry:Energy
A term applied to warm-air heating systems that deliver heated air to rooms by means of registers or baseboards located along exterior walls.
Industry:Energy
A technique used by energy auditors, using a blower door, to locate areas of air infiltration by exaggerating the defects in the building shell. This test only measures air infiltration at the time of the test. It does not take into account changes in atmospheric pressure, weather, wind velocity, or any activities the occupants conduct that may affect air infiltration rates over a period of time.
Industry:Energy
A technique for insulating and sealing exterior walls that reduces vapor diffusion through air leakage points by installing pre-cut blocks of rigid foam insulation over floor joists, sheet subfloor, and top plates before drywall is installed.
Industry:Energy
A tank used in a closed-loop solar heating system that provides space for the expansion of the heat transfer fluid in the pressurized collector loop.
Industry:Energy
A system where heat is supplied to areas of a building from a single appliance through a network of ducts or pipes.
Industry:Energy
A system that records the consumption of electricity, gas, water, etc, and sends the data to a central data accumulation device.
Industry:Energy
A system of astronomical time in which the sun crosses the true north-south meridian at 12 noon, and which differs from local time according to longitude, time zone, and equation of time.
Industry:Energy
