Energy terminology · MLC-0117
Energy terms: N (116)
- N_2ONitrous Oxide
- NAAQSNational Ambient Air Quality Standards
- NAICS (North American Industry Classification System)A coding system developed jointly by the United States, Canada, and Mexico to classify businesses and...
- Name plateA metal tag attached to a machine or appliance that contains information such as brand name, serial number...
- NaphthaA generic term applied to a refined or partially refined petroleum fraction with an approximate boiling range...
- NaphthasRefined or partly refined light distillates with an approximate boiling point range between 122 and 400...
- Naphtha-type jet fuelA fuel in the heavy naphtha boiling range having an average gravity of 52.8 degrees API, 20% to 90%...
- National Association of Regulatory Utility CommissionersAn affiliation of the public service commissioners to promote the uniform treatment of members of the...
- National Defense Authorization ActThe federal law, enacted in 1994 and amended in 1995, that required the Secretary of Energy to prepare the...
- National priorities listThe Environmental Protection Agency's list of the most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste...
- National Rural Electric Cooperative AssociationA national organization dedicated to representing the interests of cooperative electric utilities and the...
- National Uranium Resource EvaluationA program begun by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1974 to make a comprehensive evaluation of U.S...
- Native gasGas in place at the time that a reservoir was converted to use as an underground storage reservoir in...
- Native load (electric)The end-use customers that the Load-Serving Entity is obligated to serve. NERC definition
- Natural gasA gaseous mixture of hydrocarbon compounds, the primary one being methane.
- Natural gas field facilityA field facility designed to process natural gas produced from more than one lease for the purpose of...
- Natural gas gross withdrawalsFull well-stream volume of produced natural gas, excluding condensate separated at the lease.
- Natural gas hydratesSolid, crystalline, wax-like substances composed of water, methane, and usually a small amount of other...
- Natural gas lease productionGross withdrawals of natural gas minus gas production injected on the lease into producing reservoirs...
- Natural Gas LiquidsA group of hydrocarbons including ethane, propane, normal butane, isobutane, and natural gasoline. Generally...
- Natural gas liquids productionThe volume of natural gas liquids removed from natural gas in lease separators, field facilities, gas...
- Natural gas marketed productionGross withdrawals of natural gas from production reservoirs, less gas used for reservoir repressuring...
- Natural gas marketerA company that arranges purchases and sales of natural gas. Unlike pipeline companies or local distribution...
- Natural gas plant liquidsThose hydrocarbons in natural gas that are separated as liquids at natural gas processing, fractionating, and...
- Natural gas plant liquids (NGPL) productionThe extraction of gas plant liquids constituents such as ethane, propane, normal butane, isobutane, and...
- Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978Signed into law on November 9, 1978, the NGPA is a framework for the regulation of most facets of the natural...
- Natural gas processing plantFacilities designed to recover natural gas liquids from a stream of natural gas that may or may not have...
- Natural gas sweeteningThe process of removing hydrogen sulfide (H2S), carbon dioxide (CO2), and mercaptans from natural gas to make...
- Natural Gas Used for InjectionNatural gas used to pressurize crude oil reservoirs in an attempt to increase oil recovery or in instances...
- Natural gas utility demand-side management (DSM) program sponsorA DSM (demand-side management) program sponsored by a natural gas utility that suggests ways to increase the...
- Natural gasolineA commodity product commonly traded in NGL markets that comprises liquid hydrocarbons (mostly pentanes and...
- Natural Gasoline and IsopentaneA mixture of hydrocarbons, mostly pentanes and heavier, extracted from natural gas, that meets vapor...
- Natural reservoir pressureThe energy within an oil or gas reservoir that causes the oil or gas to rise (unassisted by other forces) to...
- Natural streamflowThe rate of flow of water past a given point of an uncontrolled stream or regulated streamflow adjusted to...
- Natural uraniumUranium with the U-235 isotope present at a concentration of 0.711 percent (by weight), that is, uranium with...
- Near-month contract for energy futuresThe near-month contract, a term used in energy futures and options trading and other transactions, is the...
- Net actual interchange (electric)The algebraic sum of all metered interchange over all interconnections between two physically Adjacent...
- Net cell shipmentsRepresents the difference between cell shipments and cell purchases.
- Net electricity consumptionConsumption of electricity computed as generation, plus imports, minus exports, minus transmission and...
- Net energy for load (electric)Net Balancing Authority Area generation, plus energy received from other Balancing Authority Areas, less...
- Net energy for systemThe sum of energy an electric utility needs to satisfy their service areas, including full and partial...
- Net generationThe amount of gross generation less the electrical energy consumed at the generating station(s) for station...
- Net headThe gross head minus all hydraulic losses except those chargeable to the turbine.
- Net incomeOperating income plus other income and extraordinary income less operating expenses, taxes, interest charges...
- Net interstate flow of electricityThe difference between the sum of electricity sales and losses within a state and the total amount of...
- Net meteringUtility tariffs or billing programs that allow certain types of customers to reduce the volume of billed...
- Net module shipmentsRepresents the difference between module shipments and module purchases. When exported, incomplete modules...
- Net operable capacityTotal owned capacity less in operable capacity.
- Net photovoltaic module shipmentThe difference between photovoltaic module shipments and photovoltaic module purchases.
- Net profits interestA contractual arrangement under which the beneficiary, in exchange for consideration paid, receives a stated...
- Net ReceiptsThe difference between total movements into and total movements out of each PAD District by pipeline, tanker...
- Net summer capacityThe maximum output, commonly expressed in megawatts (MW), that generating equipment can supply to system...
- Net winter capacityThe maximum output, commonly expressed in megawatts (MW), that generating equipment can supply to system...
- Netback purchaseRefers to a crude oil purchase agreement wherein the price paid for the crude is determined by sales prices...
- New fieldA field discovered during the report year.
- New field discoveriesThe volumes of proved reserves of crude oil, natural gas, and/or natural gas liquids discovered in new fields...
- New reservoirA reservoir discovered during the report year.
- NGPLNatural Gas Plant Liquids
- NGVNatural Gas Vehicle
- Nitrogen dioxideA compound of nitrogen and oxygen formed by the oxidation of nitric oxide (NO) which is produced by the...
- Nitrogen oxides (NO_x)Compounds of nitrogen and oxygen produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
- Nitrous oxide (N_2O)A colorless gas, naturally occurring in the atmosphere. Nitrous oxide has a 100-year Global Warming Potential...
- No. 1 diesel fuelA light distillate fuel oil that has a distillation temperature of 550 degrees Fahrenheit at the 90-percent...
- No. 1 distillateA light petroleum distillate that can be used as either a diesel fuel (see No. 1 diesel fuel) or a fuel oil...
- No. 1 fuel oilA light distillate fuel oil that has distillation temperatures of 400 degrees Fahrenheit at the 10-percent...
- No. 2 diesel fuelA distillate fuel oil that has a distillation temperature of 640 degrees Fahrenheit at the 90-percent...
- No. 2 distillateA petroleum distillate that can be used as either a diesel fuel (see No. 2 diesel fuel) or a fuel oil (see...
- No. 2 fuel oil and No. 2 diesel sold to consumers for all other end usesThose consumers who purchase fuel oil or diesel fuel for their own use including commercial/institutional...
- No. 2 fuel oil (heating oil)A distillate fuel oil that has distillation temperatures of 400 degrees Fahrenheit at the 10-percent recovery...
- No. 2 fuel oil sold to private homes for heatingPrivate household customers who purchase fuel oil for the specific purpose of heating their home, water...
- No. 4 fuel oilA distillate fuel oil made by blending distillate fuel oil and residual fuel oil stocks. It conforms with...
- No. 5 Residual fuel oilA residual fuel oil of medium viscosity, used in steam-powered vessels in government service and power...
- No. 6 Residual fuel oilIncludes Bunker C fuel oil and is used for the production of electric power, space heating, vessel bunkering...
- NOAANational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- NOAA divisionOne of the 345 weather divisions designated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
- Noload lossPower and energy lost by an electric system when not operating under demand.
- Nominal capacity of an LNG export facilityThe volume of LNG produced in a calendar year under normal operating conditions, based on the engineered...
- Nominal dollarsA measure used to express nominal price.
- Nominal priceThe price paid for a product or service at the time of the transaction. Nominal prices are those that have...
- Nonassociated natural gasNatural gas that is not in contact with significant quantities of crude oil in the reservoir. See natural gas.
- Nonattainment areaAny area that does not meet the national primary or secondary ambient air quality standard established by the...
- Non-biomass wasteMaterial of non-biological origin that is a byproduct or a discarded product. "Non-biomass waste" includes...
- Nonbranded productAny refined petroleum product that is not a branded product.
- Noncoincident demandSum of two or more demands on individual systems that do not occur in the same demand interval.
- Noncoincidental peak loadThe sum of two or more peak loads on individual systems that do not occur in the same time interval...
- Non-combustion useFossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum products) that are not burned to release energy and instead...
- Nonconventional plant (uranium)A facility engineered and built principally for processing of uraniferous solutions that are produced during...
- Nondedicated vehicleA motor vehicle capable of operating on an alternative fuel and /or on either gasoline or diesel.
- Nonfirm powerPower or power-producing capacity supplied or available under a commitment having limited or no assured...
- Nonfuel componentsComponents that are not associated with a particular fuel. These include, but are not limited to, control...
- Nonfuel use (of energy)Use of energy as feedstock or raw material input.
- Nonfungible productA gasoline blend or blendstock that cannot be shipped via existing petroleum product distribution systems...
- Nonhydrocarbon gasesTypical nonhydrocarbon gases that may be present in reservoir natural gas, such as carbondioxide, helium...
- Non-marketed energyEnergy consumed in the end-use sectors that isn’t purchased, such as solar energy captured by a rooftop solar...
- Non-metallurgical coalCoal that is not expected to be used in coke ovens to produce coke.
- Nonmethane volatile organic compoundsOrganic compounds, other than methane, that participate in atmospheric photochemical reactions.
- Nonoperating interestAny mineral lease interest (e.g., royalty, production payment, net profits interest) that does not involve...
- Nonproducing reservoirReservoir in which oil and/or gas proved reserves have been identified, but which did not produce during the...
- Nonrenewable fuelsFuels that cannot be easily made or "renewed," such as oil, natural gas, and coal.
- Nonrequirements consumerA wholesale consumer (unlike a full or partial requirements consumer) that purchases economic or coordination...
- Nonresidential buildingA building used for some purpose other than residential. Nonresidential buildings comprise three groups...
- Nonroad alternative fuel vehicle (nonroad AFV)An alternative fuel vehicle designed for off-road operation and use for surface/air transportation...
- Nonspinning reserveThe generating capacity not currently running but capable of being connected to the bus and load within a...
- Nonutility generationElectric generation by end-users, or small power producers under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act...
- Nonutility power producerA corporation, person, agency, authority, or other legal entity or instrumentality that owns or operates...
- NOPRNotice of Proposed Rulemaking
- Normal butane (C_4H_(10))A straight-chain saturated (paraffinic) hydrocarbon extracted from both natural gas and refinery gas streams...
- North American Electric Reliability CorporationA nonprofit corporation formed in 2006 as the successor to the North American Electric Reliability Council...
- North American Industry Classification SystemA new classification scheme, developed by the Office of Management and Budget to replace the Standard...
- Nuclear electric power (nuclear power)Electricity generated by the use of the thermal energy released from the fission of nuclear fuel in a reactor.
- Nuclear fuelFissionable materials that have been enriched to such a composition that, when placed in a nuclear reactor...
- Nuclear reactorAn apparatus in which a nuclear fission chain reaction can be initiated, controlled, and sustained at a...
- NUGNonutility Generator
- Number of minesThe number of mines, or mines collocated with preparation plants or tipples, located in a particular...
- Number of mining operationsThe number of mining operations includes preparation plants with greater than 5,000 total direct labor hours...
- NymexNew York Mercantile Exchange
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