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Money or collateral deposited with a broker, clearing member or clearing organization intended to hold futures contracts and cover changes in the value of futures contracts. Margin is one way of dealing with credit exposure. Properly designed margining, along with effective clearing, has helped exchanges stay in business even as occasional large defaults occur.
- Browse Related Terms: Collateral, Credit, Credit risk, Financial markets, Financial transaction, Financially settled, IntercontinentalExchange (ICE), Margin requirement, Open outcry, Price discovery, Risk Management
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In organized wholesale markets, the price of the marginal source of electricity usually sets the price of the unit providing the next increment or decrement of energy, which price usually sets the price for all generation.
- Browse Related Terms: Capacity margin, congestion, Critical notices, Curtailable load, First Contingency Reliability Criteria, Independent system operator (ISO), Interruptible or nonfirm transportation, Intertie, Load-serving entity (LSE), Loop flow, Marginal electric generating unit, Native load, Operating reserves, Outage, Regional Transmission Organization (RTO), Transmission loading relief (TLR)
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Adjustment of the book value or collateral value of a security – including a security such as a multiyear contract – to reflect current market value for the applicable period.
- Browse Related Terms: 12-month strip, Arbitrage, Delivery Point(s), Financial transmission right, Forward price curve, Futures market, Henry Hub, Locational marginal price, long, Mark-to-market, Physical basis, Reference price, Short position, Spark spread, Uplift, West Texas Intermediate (WTI)
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A venue where participants buy and sell products or services. Usually there is agreement of product description and some standard terms to enable determination of value and price.
- Browse Related Terms: Basis Swaps, Credit rating, Daily (or Next-Day) Indexes, Debt financing, Electronic trading platform, Fixed price transactions, Floating price transactions, index, Market, Market structure, Power marketer, Project financing, Spread trading, Swaps
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A measure of company size that is computed as current market price per share of stock times the total number of shares outstanding.
- Browse Related Terms: Active traders, Exchange, Hedging, Hirschman-Herfindahl Index (HHI) Market share analysis, Hub, Market capitalization, Market concentration, Market power, Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E Ratio), Transparency, Volatility, Zonal price
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A measure, usually an estimate, of the market share of a participant or groups of participant in the overall market or a submarket (a given region, product, or time, for example).
- Browse Related Terms: Active traders, Exchange, Hedging, Hirschman-Herfindahl Index (HHI) Market share analysis, Hub, Market capitalization, Market concentration, Market power, Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E Ratio), Transparency, Volatility, Zonal price
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The ease, or lack thereof, with which a buyer can buy or a seller can sell at a prevailing price in a marketplace.
- Browse Related Terms: Bid-ask differential, or spread, Broker, Imbalance energy, Market liquidity, Market participant, Voice broker
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A market buyer or a market seller, or both, that meets reasonable creditworthiness standards established by the market operator.
- Browse Related Terms: Bid-ask differential, or spread, Broker, Imbalance energy, Market liquidity, Market participant, Voice broker
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The ability of any market participant with a large market share to significantly control or affect price by withholding production from the market, limiting service availability, or reducing purchases.
- Browse Related Terms: Active traders, Exchange, Hedging, Hirschman-Herfindahl Index (HHI) Market share analysis, Hub, Market capitalization, Market concentration, Market power, Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E Ratio), Transparency, Volatility, Zonal price
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The rules, mechanisms and processes, under which a market operates to form prices, provide benefits and introduce risks to participants, and ultimately end consumers. Structure could enhance or inhibit competition, create just and reasonable outcomes, provide economically efficient incentives, or introduce unintended consequences including adverse market outcomes.
- Browse Related Terms: Basis Swaps, Credit rating, Daily (or Next-Day) Indexes, Debt financing, Electronic trading platform, Fixed price transactions, Floating price transactions, index, Market, Market structure, Power marketer, Project financing, Spread trading, Swaps
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1,000 cubic feet (of gas).
- Browse Related Terms: 1 million British thermal units or 1 dekatherm (MMBtu), 1 million cubic feet (MMCF), dekatherm or decatherm (DTH), MCF, Therm
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1 million watts of electricity.
- Browse Related Terms: Demand, Gigawatt (GW), Kilowatt (kW), Kilowatthour (kWh), Losses, Megawatt (MW), Megawatthour (MWh), Off-Peak, Tolling agreement, Watt (W), Watthour (Wh)
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1,000 kilowatt-hours or 1 million watt-hours.
- Browse Related Terms: Demand, Gigawatt (GW), Kilowatt (kW), Kilowatthour (kWh), Losses, Megawatt (MW), Megawatthour (MWh), Off-Peak, Tolling agreement, Watt (W), Watthour (Wh)
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A generating plant built with no energy sales contracts in place.
- Browse Related Terms: Bus, Coalbed methane, Combined-cycle generators, Combined-cycle power plant, Combustion turbine, Distillate fuel oil, Dual-fueled (or dual-fired) unit, Generation, Generator, Heat rate, Merchant generator, Residual fuel oil, Steam plant, Turbine, Unconventional natural gas
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A power plant that is out-of-service, but is being maintained in such a condition that an operator can bring it back into service.
- Browse Related Terms: Ancillary services, Automatic generation control, availability, Baseload Unit, Capacity factor, Control area, Financial liquidity, Fuel-adjustment clause, Installed capacity, Load pocket, Mothballed capacity, Peaking capacity, Plant factor, Ramp rate, Reliability must run (RMR), Retail unbundling, Voltage reduction, Wholesale electricity markets