List of energy topics

Energy Tax Act - United States energy-related legisaltion
Environmental concerns with electricity generation
Soft energy path - an energy use and development strategy delineated and promoted by some energy experts and activists

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Energy unit terms

Barrel of oil equivalent
British thermal unit
Calorie
Current_solar_income - the amount of solar energy that falls as sunlight
Direct current
Electronvolt - (symbol: eV) is the amount of energy gained by a single unbound electron when it falls through an electrostatic potential difference of one volt
Energy conversion - process of converting energy from one form to another
Enthalpy
Erg - (symbol "erg") unit of energy and mechanical work in the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system of units
EU energy label
Fill factor - defined as the ratio of the maximum power (Vmp x Jmp) divided by the short-circuit current (Isc) and open-circuit voltage (Voc) in light current density - voltage (J-V) characteristics of solar cells.
Foe (unit of energy) - unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules
Foot-pound - (symbol ft�lbf or ft�lbf) is an Imperial and U.S. customary unit of mechanical work, or energy, although in scientific fields one commonly uses the equivalent metric unit of the joule (J). There are approximately 1.356 J/(ft�lb_f).
Francis turbine the most common water turbine in use today
Gibbs free energy
Gigaton - Metric Unit of mass, equal to 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) Metric tons, 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) kilograms
Gray (unit) - (symbol: Gy), is the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation. One gray is the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter. One gray equals 100 rad, an older unit.
Heat
Internal energy - (abbreviated E or U) is the total kinetic energy due to the motion of molecules (translational, rotational, vibrational) and the total potential energy associated with the vibrational and electric energy of atoms within molecules.
Ionization energy - the (IE) of an atom is the energy required to strip it of an electron.
Joule - (symbol J, also called newton meter, watt second, or coulomb volt)
Kilowatt-hour - (symbol: kW�h) corresponds to one kilowatt (kW) of power being used over a period of one hour.
Kinetic energy
Mass driver
Mass-energy equivalence - where mass has an energy equivalence, and energy has a mass equivalence
Net energy gain
Photoelectric effect
Planck energy
Potential energy - (U, or E_p), a kind of scalar potential, is energy by virtue of matter being able to move to a lower-energy state, releasing energy in some form
Power beaming - Moving energy from one place to another through "empty space" (or air)
Power factor - of an AC electric power system is defined as the ratio of the real power to the apparent power.
Primary_energy - Energy contained in raw fuels and any other forms of energy received by a system as input to the system.
Radiant energy - energy that is transported by waves
Rotational energy - An object's rotational energy or angular kinetic energy is part of its total kinetic energy
Solar radiation - radiant energy emitted by the sun, particularly electromagnetic energy
Therm - (symbol thm) is a non-SI unit of heat energy. It was defined in the United States in 1968 as the energy equivalent of burning 100 cubic feet of natural gas at standard temperature and pressure. In the US gas industry its SI equivalent is defined as exactly 100,000 BTU_59�F or 105.4804 megajoules
TPE - Ton Petroleum Equivalent (45,217.44 M joules)
Tyson turbine - for river flow harnessing

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Energy companies

Exxon Mobil
Enercon GmbH - Company based in Germany that operates in the wind turbine industry. One of the biggest producers in the world.
Saudi Aramco
Sasol
United States Enrichment Corporation - contracts with the United States Department of Energy to produce enriched uranium.

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