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41Cooling tower — Natural draft wet cooling hyperboloid towers at Didcot Power Station, UK …
42Net metering — Part of a series on Green economics Concepts …
43Transmission tower — A delta pylon carrying a 400kV power line towards Madrid. A transmission tower (colloquially termed an electricity pylon in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe, an ironman in Australia, and a hydro tower in parts of Canada) is a tall structure …
44Duke Energy — Corporation Type Public(NYSE: DUK) S P 500 Component Industry …
45Carbon offset — Part of a series on Green economics Concepts …
46Grid connection — In electrical grids, a power system network integrates transmission grids, distribution grids, distributed generators and loads that have connection points called busses. A bus in home circuit breaker panels is much smaller than those used on the …
47Microgeneration — Sustainable energy Renewable energy …
48Virtual power plant — A virtual power plant is a cluster of distributed generation installations (such as microCHP, wind turbines, small hydro, back up gensets etc.) which are collectively run by a central control entity. The energy crisis in America has opened up the …
49Dynamic demand (electric power) — Dynamic Demand is the name of a semi passive technology for adjusting load demands on an electrical power grid. (It is also the name of an independent not for profit organization in the UK supported by a charitable grant from the Esmée Fairbairn… …
50Dispatchable generation — refers to sources of electricity that can be dispatched at the request of power grid operators; that is, generating plants that can be turned on or off, or can adjust their power output on demand. This should be contrasted with certain types of… …
