Category: General

The official term in the Kyoto Protocol defining the total allowed emissions for a party over the commitment period 2008-2012. Emissions trading and CDM could add or subtract from this amount

The energy demand in a given geographical area over a period of time. For example, the number of kilowatt-hours used in a 24-hour period, divided by 24, tells the average demand for that period.

An attribute map is a set of rules that define how the attributes of an entry are copied, transformed and/or computed

The independent civilian agency of the federal government with statutory responsibility to supervise and promote use of nuclear energy. Functions were taken over in 1974 by the Energy Research and Development Administration (now part of the U.S. Department of Energy) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

A dark-brown-to-black cement-like material obtained by petroleum processing and containing bitumen as the predominant constituent