Glossary
Terms starting with P
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- punk
- A descriptive term adopted by the most rebellious heavy metal bands and their followers.
- Purchased Capacity
- The amount of energy and capacity available for purchase from outside the system.
- PURCHASING GROUP
- An entity that offers insurance to groups of similar businesses with similar exposures to risk.
- PURE LIFE ANNUITY
- A form of annuity that ends payments when the annuitant dies. Payments may be fixed or variable.
- Purée
- A word used to describe either the act of making a smooth sauce or paste from various ingredients (verb), or the final result of such a process (noun). Meats, fruits and vegetables can all be puréed. Purées can be made in seconds if you have a blender or…
- PURPA
- The Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act of 1978. Among other things, this federal legislation requires utilities to buy electric power from private "qualifying facilities," at an avoided cost rate. This avoided cost rate is equivalent to what it would have…
- push-up jeans
- Spandex in the jeans helps to lift and shape your rear.
- Puy lentils
- A small slate-green lentil with a delicate blue marbling. Puy lentils are considered by many to be the best lentil because of their unique peppery flavour and the fact they hold their shape during cooking. They're the only lentil to be identified by area of…
- PX
- The California Power Exchange Corporation, a state chartered, non-profit corporation charged with providing Day-Ahead and Hour-Ahead markets for energy and ancillary services, if it chooses to self-provide, in accordance with the PX tariff. The PX is a…
- PX GENERATION
- Generation being scheduled by the PX.
- PX LOAD
- Load that has been scheduled by the PX, and which is received through the use of transmission or distribution facilities owned by participating transmission owners.
- PX PARTICIPANT
- An entity that is authorized to buy or sell energy or ancillary services through the PX, and any agent authorized to act on behalf of such an entity.
- pyrimidine
- Nitrogenous bases of which thymine is found in DNA; uridine in RNA; and cytosine in both.
- Python
- Interpreted programming language, sometimes offered by hosts for server-side scripting. Here is the Python home page.