Maintenance expenses are that portion of expenses consisting of labor, materials, and other direct and indirect expenses incurred for preserving the operating efficiency or physical condition of utility plants that are used for power production, transmission, and distribution of energy. Principal among these were suggested retail rate reforms and new incentives for production of electricity by cogenerators and users of renewable resources. Equivalent to 10 to the 15th power Btu. Fuel processed from municipal solid waste that can be in shredded, fluff, or densified pellet forms. An energy source that is regenerative or virtually inexhaustible.
Typical examples are wind, geothermal, and water power.
Logs, bolts, and other round timber generated from the harvesting of trees. An interconnected group of electric transmission lines and associated equipment for moving or transferring electric energy in bulk between points of supply and points at which it is transformed for delivery over the distribution system lines to consumers, or is delivered to other electric systems. Turbines convert the kinetic energy of fluids to mechanical energy through the principles of impulse and reaction, or a mixture of the two. The electrical unit of power. The rate of energy transfer equivalent to 1 ampere of electric current flowing under a pressure of 1 volt at unity power factor.