The working ideas of energy systems that recur across this atlas: the measures, limits and policy concepts by which sources, plants and transitions are compared and judged. Physics-first derivations of these same quantities stay with science; here they are described operationally, as working measures energy professionals actually use.
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Wikimedia FoundationContains: Feed-in Tariff, Description
A feed-in tariff is a policy mechanism designed to accelerate investment in renewable energy technologies by offering long-term contracts to renewable energy producers.
Contains: Power Purchase Agreement, Introduction
A power purchase agreement (PPA), or electricity power agreement, is a long-term contract between an electricity generator and a customer, usually a utility, government or company.
Contains: Energy Access, Description section
lack of access to modern energy services in the home
View the Source Emission intensity (Wikipedia)
Contains: Carbon Intensity, IntroductionQuote, Contains: Carbon Intensity, Introduction
An emission intensity (also carbon intensity or C.I.) is the emission rate of a given pollutant relative to the intensity of a specific activity
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