Spinning Reserve

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Electric power provider capacity on line and running at low power in excess of actual load.

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
Effective Capacity
Interruptible load
Load
Load Analysis
Outage
Selectable Load
Shunt Load

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Source Water Assessment Plan (SWAP)
Space Heater
Spacer (Window)
Special Districts
Special Permit
Specific Heat
Specific Heat Capacity
Specific Humidity
Specific Volume
Spectral Energy Distribution
Spectral Irradiance
Spectral Reflectance
Spectrally Selective Coatings
Spectrum
Spillway
Spinning Reserve
Split Spectrum Photovoltaic Cell
Split System Air Conditioner
Sprawl
Spray Pyrolysis
Spreader Stocker
Sputtering
Square Wave Inverter
Squirrel Cage Motor
Stack
Stack (Heat) Loss
Staebler-Wronski effect
Stagnation Temperature
Stall
Stand-Alone Generator
Stand-Alone Inverter

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