Glossary Of Energy Terms - C

A collection of energy related terms with their meanings, starting with the letter C. Click on any word to read its meaning.

C4H

Calcination

Calcium sulfate

Calcium sulfite

California Power Exchange

CALL-BACK

CALORIE

CALORIE (energy calorie - small)

Canadian deuterium uranium reactor (CANDU)

Cannel coal

Capable of being fueled

CAPACITY

Capacity (purchased)

Capacity charge

Capacity factor

CAPACITY RELEASE

Capacity transaction

Capacity utilization

Capital cost

Capital stock

Captive coal

CAPTIVE CUSTOMER

Captive refinery MTBE plants

Captive refinery oxygenate plants

Carbohydrate

Carbon black

Carbon budget

Carbon cycle

CARBON DIOXIDE

Carbon dioxide (CO2)

Carbon dioxide equivalent

Carbon flux

Carbon intensity

CARBON MONOXIDE (CO)

Carbon output rate

Carbon Sequestration

Carbon sink

Carbon-neutral

Carburetor

CARCINOGENS

Carrying costs

Cash and carry

Casinghead gas (or oil well gas)

Cast silicon

Catalyst

Catalyst coke

Catalytic converter

Catalytic cracking

Catalytic hydrocracking

Catalytic hydrotreating

Catalytic reforming

CAULKING

CDD

Cells

Cells to OEM (non-PV)

Cellulose

Cellulosic Ethanol

CELSIUS

Census division

Census Region

Census Region/division

Central chiller

Central cooling

Central physical plant

Central warm air furnace

Centralized water heating system

Certificate

Certificate requirement

Cesspool

Cetane Index

Cetane Number

CFC

CFCs (CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS or CHLORINATED FLUOROCARBONS)

CFM (cubic feet per minute)

cfs

Chained dollars

Characterization

Charge capacity

Chelating Compound

CHEMICAL ENERGY

Chemical separation

CHILLER

Chips

Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)

CHP

Christmas tree

CI

CIF (cargo, insurance and freight)

CIF (cost, insurance, freight)

CIRCUIT

Circuit-mile

Citygate

Class rate schedule

Classes of service

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

CLEAN FUEL VEHICLE

CLERESTORY

Climate change

CLIMATE ZONE

Clinker

Cloud condensation nuclei

CLUNKERS

CO control period ("seasons")

CO nonattainment area

CO-OP

Coal

Coal analysis

Coal bed

Coal bed degasification

Coal bed methane

Coal briquets

Coal carbonized

Coal chemicals

Coal coke

Coal consumption

COAL CONVERSION

Coal delivered

Coal exports

Coal face

Coal financial reporting regions

Coal fines

Coal gas

Coal gasification

Coal grade

Coal imports

Coal liquefaction

Coal mining productivity

COAL OIL

Coal preparation

Coal producing districts

Coal production

Coal rank

Coal sampling

COAL SEAM

COAL SLURRY PIPELINE

Coal stocks

Coal sulfur

Coal Synfuel

Coal type

Coal zone

Coal-producing regions

Code of Federal Regulations

Cofiring

COGENERATION

Cogeneration system

Cogenerator

Coincidental demand

Coincidental peak load

COKE

Coke (coal)

Coke (petroleum)

Coke breeze

Coke button

Coke oven gas

Coke plants

Coking

Coking coal

Cold-deck imputation

Combined cycle

COMBINED CYCLE PLANT

Combined cycle unit

Combined heat and power (CHP) plant

Combined household energy expenditures

Combined hydroelectric plant

COMBINED HYDRONIC SPACE/WATER HEATING

Combined pumped-storage plant

Combustion

COMBUSTION Burning

Combustion chamber

COMFORT CONDITIONING

COMFORT ZONE

Commercial building

Commercial facility

Commercial operation (nuclear)

Commercial sector

COMMERCIALIZATION

Commingling

Commissioned agent

Common equity (book value)

Compact fluorescent bulbs

Company

Company automotive (retail) outlet

Company outlet

Company-lessee automotive outlet

Company-open automotive outlet

Company-operated automotive outlet

Company-operated outlet

Company-operated retail outlet

Competitive transition charge

COMPETITIVE TRANSMISSION CHARGE

Completion (oil/gas production)

Completion date (oil/gas production)

Compliance coal

Compressed natural gas (CNG)

Compressor station

Concentrating solar power or solar thermal power system

Concentrator

Concession

Concessionary purchases

CONDENSATE

Condensate (lease condensate)

CONDENSER

Condenser cooling water

Conditional energy intensity

Conditionally effective rates

CONDITIONED FLOOR AREA

CONDITIONED SPACE

CONDITIONED SPACE - DIRECTLY

CONDITIONED SPACE, INDIRECTLY

CONDUCTANCE

CONDUCTION

CONDUCTIVITY (k)

Conductor

Conference of the Parties (COP)

Configuration maps

Congestion

CONGESTION MANAGEMENT

Connected load

Connection

CONSERVATION

Conservation and other DSM

Conservation feature

Conservation program

Consolidated entity

Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA)

Construction

Construction costs (of the electric power industry)

Construction expenditures (of the electric power industry)

Construction pipeline (of a nuclear reactor)

Construction work in progress (CWIP)

Constructive surplus or deficit

Consumer (energy)

Consumer charge

Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Consumption

Consumption per square foot

CONTINENTAL SHELF

Continuous delivery energy sources

Continuous mining

CONTRACT PATH

Contract price

Contract receipts

Contracted gas

CONTRACTS FOR DIFFERENCES (CFD)

Contribution to net income

Control

Control total

CONVECTION

Conventional Biofuels

CONVENTIONAL GAS

Conventional gasoline

Conventional hydroelectric plant

Conventional mill (uranium)

Conventional mining

Conventional oil and natural gas production

Conventional thermal electricity generation

Conventionally fueled vehicle

CONVERSION

Conversion company

Conversion factor

CONVERSION FUEL FACTOR

Converted (alternative-fuel) vehicle

CONVERTED VEHICLE

CONVERTER

Cooling

COOLING CAPACITY, LATENT

COOLING CAPACITY, SENSIBLE

COOLING CAPACITY, TOTAL

COOLING DEGREE DAY

Cooling degree-days

COOLING LOAD

COOLING LOAD TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE (CLTD)

Cooling pond

Cooling system

COOLING TOWER

COOPERATIVE (Electric utility)

Cooperative electric utility

Coordination service

Coordination service pricing

COP (COEFFICIENT OF PERFORMANCE)

CORD

Cord of wood

Corn Ethanol

Corn Stover

CORPORATE AVERAGE FUEL ECONOMY (CAFE)

Correlation (statistical term)

Cost model for undiscovered resources

Cost of capital

Cost of debt

Cost of preferred stock

Cost of retained earnings

Cost of service

Cost-of-service regulation

Cost, insurance, freight (CIF)

Costs (imports of natural gas)

Criteria pollutant

Crop residue

Crude oil

Crude oil acquisitions (unfinished oil acquisitions)

Crude oil f.o.b. price

Crude oil input

Crude oil landed cost

Crude oil less lease condensate

Crude oil losses

Crude oil production

Crude oil qualities

Crude oil refinery input

Crude oil stocks

Crude oil used directly

Crude oil, refinery receipts

Crystalline fully refined wax

Crystalline other wax

CUBIC FOOT

Cubic foot (cf), natural gas

Cull wood

Culm

Cultivar

Cumulative depletion

Current (electric)

Current assets

Current liabilities

Current ratio

Customer choice

Customs district (coal)

Cut-off grade (uranium)

Cycle

Cycle/reactor history

Cycling (natural gas)

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