Energy Transition Planning Real Talk

ENERGY TRANSITIONING PLANNING

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Regulatory
Technical

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)

Anaerobic digestion

Ancillary markets

Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)

Biomass

Capacity factor

Capacity transaction

Coal

Community Choice Aggregation (CCA)

Community solar

Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)

Concentrated solar photovoltaic

Concentrated solar thermal

Day-ahead energy markets

Decoupled electricity markets

Deregulated electricity market

Diesel

Distributed Energy Resource (DER)

Distribution system

Distribution System Operator (DSO)

Electric current

Electric Distribution Company (EDC)

Electric Generation Supplier (EGS)

Electric vehicle

Electricity demand

Energy

Energy audit

Escalator value

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Feed-in tariff

Firm services

Franchise agreement

Fuel cell

Gasoline

Generation

Geothermal

Ground source heat pump

Heat pump

Horizontal integration

Hydro energy

Hydrogen fuel

Independent System Operator (ISO)

Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

Interruptible gas rate

Investor-Owned Utility (IOU)

Landfill Gas (LFG)

Load Serving Entity (LSE)

Microgrid

Municipal utility

Municipalization

Natural gas

Net metering

Net Present Value (NPV)

Non‐synchronized reserves

Nuclear energy

Power

Power outage

Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)

Propane

Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)

Pumped hydro energy storage

Rate base

Rates

Real-time energy markets

Regional Transmission Organization (RTO)

Regulated market

Regulation

Regulation markets

Renewable Energy (RE)

Renewable Energy Certificates or Credits (RECs)

Renewable portfolio standard (RPS)

Reserve margin (operating)

Retail electric sales

Retail electricity providers

Return on Investment (ROI)

Right-of-way

Rural electric cooperative utility

Solar hot water

Solar photovoltaic (PV)

Spark spread

Spinning reserve (synchronized reserve)

Stranded cost

Substation

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)

Tariff

Tax credit

Tax deduction

Tax depreciation

Taxing authority

Tidal energy

Transformer

Transmission line

Transmission system

Transmission System Operator (TSO)

Unconventional gas and oil

Utility commission

Value-of-Solar Tariff (VOST)

Vertical integration

Virtual net metering

Voltage regulation

Wave energy

Wheeling service

Wholesale electricity markets

Wind energy