Across
- 5. opposite of an insulator
- 7. _________________ Policy Act of 1992, marked the beginning of competition in the electric power industry
- 8. negatively charged particle outside the nucleus of an atom
- 9. __________________ power is generated by using moving water
- 13. agency tasked with enforcing laws protecting human health and the environment
- 15. __________________company, a company which owns or holds stock in other companies, which it then manages and operates
- 16. abbreviation for an electric current that reverses its direction at regularly recurring intervals
- 17. a device that changes the voltage of an electric current
- 18. ___________________ to serve; to provide electric service to any customer who seeks that service and is willing to pay the rates set for that service; traditionally, utilities have assumed this in return for an exclusive monopoly franchise
- 20. agency that governs interstate electricity sales, wholesale electric rates, hydroelectric licensing, natural gas pricing, oil pipeline rates, and gas pipeline certification
Down
- 1. act that severely limited acquisition of any wholesale or retail electric business through a holding company and restricted ownership of an electric business by non-utility corporations
- 2. a flow of electrons along a path, such as a conductive wire
- 3. ______________ grid, the modernization of the current grid technology
- 4. economies of ______________ occur when the cost of production falls because output has increased
- 6. load _________________, when the peak demands of a variety of electric customers occur at different times
- 10. ability to meet the electricity needs of customers even when equipment fails
- 11. substances discharged into the air
- 12. process in which electricity and heat are produced at the same time from the same fuel
- 14. power loss affecting many consumers over a large geographical area for a significant period of time
- 19. agency formed in 1968 in response to the 1965 blackout; enforces reliability standards