A power plant that generates power by combusting a fuel.

The local climate of specific place or habitat, as influenced by landscape features.

Steam available directly from a boiler under full pressure.

A body of water that contains brackish (highly saline) water that forms layers of differing salinity (stratifies) that absorb and trap solar energy. Solar ponds can be used to provide heat for industrial or agricultural processes, building heating and coo ...

A solar energy system designed to provide heat to individual rooms in a building.

A method used to estimate building heating loads by assuming that heat loss and gain is proportional to the equivalent heat-loss coefficient for the building envelope.

An insulation product made of a fibrous material or plastic foams, pressed or extruded into board-like forms. It provides thermal and acoustical insulation strength with low weight, and coverage with few heat loss paths.

The tank of a water heater.

A popular term for localized or on-site power generation.

A plan developed by an electric utility, sometimes as required by a public regulatory commission or agency, that defines the short and long term capacity additions (supply side) and demand side management programs that it will undertake to meet projected ...

A type of solar thermal system where sunlight is concentrated by a curved reflector onto a pipe containing a working fluid that can be used for process heat or to produce electricity. The world's largest solar thermal electric power plants use solar troug ...

Fabricated as a single structure.

A construction element used to cover the exterior of wall framing and roof trusses.

A popular term used to describe the heating effect due to the trapping of long wave (length) radiation by greenhouse gases produced from natural and human sources.

Solar radiation reflected from the ground onto a solar collector.

An amount paid by a customer for being connected to an electricity supplier's transmission and distribution system.

A gasifier in which the feedstock (fuel) is suspended by the movement of gas to move it through the gasifier.

A type of furnace in which fuel is burned and the heat is used to produce steam.

A type of solar photovoltaic device made in a continuous process of pulling material from a molten bath of photovoltaic material, such as silicon, to form a thin sheet of material.

An electronic device that allows current to flow in one direction only.