Electricity delivery |
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Concepts |
- Automatic generation control
- Backfeeding
- Base load
- Demand factor
- Droop speed control
- Economic dispatch
- Electric power
- Demand management
- Energy return on investment
- Electrical fault
- Home energy storage
- Grid storage
- Grid code
- Grid strength
- Load-following
- Merit order
- Nameplate capacity
- Peak demand
- Power factor
- Power quality
- Power-flow study
- Repowering
- Utility frequency
- Variability
- Vehicle-to-grid
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Sources | Non-renewable |
- Coal
- Fossil fuel power station
- Natural gas
- Petroleum
- Nuclear
- Oil shale
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Renewable |
- Biogas
- Biofuel
- Biomass
- Geothermal
- Hydro
- Marine
- Current
- Osmotic
- Thermal
- Tidal
- Wave
- Solar
- Sustainable biofuel
- Wind
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Generation |
- AC power
- Cogeneration
- Combined cycle
- Cooling tower
- Induction generator
- Micro CHP
- Microgeneration
- Rankine cycle
- Three-phase electric power
- Virtual power plant
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Transmission and distribution |
- Demand response
- Distributed generation
- Dynamic demand
- Electric power distribution
- Electricity retailing
- Electrical busbar system
- Electric power system
- Electric power transmission
- Electrical grid
- Electrical interconnector
- High-voltage direct current
- High-voltage shore connection
- Load management
- Mains electricity by country
- Power line
- Power station
- Pumped hydro
- Smart grid
- Substation
- Single-wire earth return
- Super grid
- Transformer
- Transmission system operator (TSO)
- Transmission tower
- Utility pole
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Failure modes |
- Blackout (Rolling blackout)
- Brownout
- Black start
- Cascading failure
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Protective devices |
- Arc-fault circuit interrupter
- Circuit breaker
- Earth-leakage circuit breaker
- Residual-current device (GFI)
- Power system protection
- Protective relay
- Numerical relay
- Sulfur hexafluoride circuit breaker
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Economics and policies |
- Availability factor
- Capacity factor
- Carbon offset
- Cost of electricity by source
- Ecotax
- Energy subsidies
- Feed-in tariff
- Fossil fuel phase-out
- Load factor
- Net metering
- Pigovian tax
- Renewable Energy Certificates
- Renewable energy payments
- Renewable energy policy
- Spark/Dark/Quark/Bark spread
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Statistics and production |
- List of electricity sectors
- Electric energy consumption
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- Electric power distribution
- Electricity economics
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