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Administrative and general expenses
Administrative and general (A&G) expenses are a sub-category of expenses incurred in the normal day-to-day operations of a business.
Administrative ratemaking is an alternative to cost-of-service ratemaking where a government agency determines rates rather than setting them in …
An aggregator is an entity that combines end-use customers or distributed energy assets into groups for the purpose of participating in wholesal …
Allowance for funds used during construction (AFUDC)
Allowance for funds used during construction, commonly called AFUDC, is a regulatory method of compensating a utility for the financing costs it …
Amortization is the process of reducing or paying off a financial obligation with regular payments.
The term ‘avoided cost’ is used to describe the incremental cost to an electric utility to generate or purchase power.
A balance sheet is a financial snapshot of the value of the assets owned by a company and the liabilities owed by a company at a point in time.
A balancing account is an accounting mechanism used by regulated utilities to keep track of the difference between projected expenses and actual …
Basis is a term used in energy trading to describe the difference between two methods of setting prices.
A bilateral contract is a private trade between two parties. Bilateral transactions usually occur on the phone with two individuals negotiating …
The service that gas and electric end users receive is actually two services: commodity and delivery. Bundled service happens when the distribut …
Bypass is the act of connecting an end-use customer directly to a gas or electric delivery system other than the customer’s utility distributi …
In the early 2000s, California had a shortage of electricity supply caused by market manipulations and capped retail electricity prices. This ca …
Cap and Trade is a regulatory mechanism tied to reducing emissions by power plants or other industries.
When market participants contract to use specific facilities, they often contract for rights to use a specific amount of capacity on the facilit …
In the natural gas industry, capacity measures the capability of a well, processing plant, pipeline, storage facility, or LNG facility to provid …
A capacity payment is made by a user of an energy asset to the owner of that asset in return for the rights to utilize the asset’s capacity.
In the U.S., holders of firm natural gas pipeline transportation or storage capacity can resell their capacity rights to other market participan …
Monetary capital is the money required to acquire and construct long-term assets necessary to build and reliably operate an electric or natural …
Capital expenditures refer to money spent to buy or build assets with a life longer than one year.