EIF Unit 1B Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. The bulk transfer of high-voltage electrical energy from its source at generating plants to substations is referred to as electric power _______________.
  2. 5. Nonprofit entities that are publicly-owned and controlled by local government agencies. __________ utilities may include the following services: natural gas, water, sewage, and telecommunications.
  3. 6. A _______ utility maintains the infrastructure for providing a public service such as gas, electric, water, and waste-disposal service.
  4. 8. Electric ______________, nonprofit utility entities that are owned by the customers who are supplied with the services. Originally created and financed by low-cost, federal government loans to ensure the supply of electric service to rural areas.
  5. 9. ____________ system operators are created under the authority of FERC; designed to administer the transmission grid on a regional basis in a neutral manner.
  6. 10. Utilities owned by entities such as local authorities, agencies, and counties are called ______________-owned utilities.
  7. 13. _____________-owned utilities are privately owned by individual investors, private funds, and private pension plans that purchase shares or stocks for the purpose of receiving a financial return on investment.
  8. 14. _______ power producers are plants that generate power to resale to others through renewable technologies such as biomass, geothermal, wind, and solar.
Down
  1. 1. An independent power __________ is an entity which is not a public utility, but which owns facilities to generate electric power to sell, usually to public utilities; also known as a Non-Utility Generator (NUG).
  2. 2. Electric power _____________, the transfer of high-voltage electrical energy from substations to the end customer.
  3. 4. Process in which electricity and heat are produced at the same time from the same fuel or energy source.
  4. 7. The process of creating electrical energy from other forms of energy is called electric power _________________.
  5. 11. Businesses that have been formed to own power plants and market their output. A ___________ generator plant is one that has been built without a specific end user selected, which allows the plant to be more competitive in the wholesale energy market.
  6. 12. Interconnected electric generation, transmission, and distribution system over broad geographic areas form an electrical power _____.