Effective Capacity

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The maximum load that a device is capable of carrying.

US DOE Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy — Glossary of Energy-Related Terms retrieved 2014-05-26

Related Energy terms

Annual Load Fraction
Auxiliary Energy or System
Building Energy Ratio
Capability
Capability Margin
Capacity
Capacity (Effective, of a motor)
Connected Load
Decentralized (Energy) System
Displacement Power
Interruptible load
Load
Load Analysis
Outage
Selectable Load
Shunt Load
Spinning Reserve

Nearby Energy terms

Dynamo
Dynamometer
Dyne
Earth Berm
Earth Cooling Tube
Earth Sheltered Houses
Earth-Coupled Ground Source (Geothermal) Heat Pump
Earth-Ship
Easement
Eccentric
Ecological Footprint
Economic Opportunity Area (EOA)
Economizer
Ecosystem
Edge-Defined Film-Fed Growth (EFG)
Effective Capacity
Efficacy
Efficiency
Efficiency (Appliance) Ratings
Elasticity of Demand
Electric Circuit
Electric Energy
Electric Furnace
Electric Power Plant
Electric Power Sector
Electric Power Transmission
Electric Rate
Electric Rate Schedule
Electric Resistance Heating
Electric System
Electric System Loss(es)

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