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The ability of management to discuss in good faith a company's prospects and financial projections with analysts and investors without fearing litigation.
- Browse Related Terms: Bilateral transaction, Centralized Exchange, Counterparty, Credit clearing, Credit score, Globex (GW), New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), Nymex ClearPort, Ring-fencing, Safe harbor, Transaction costs
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(Natural Gas) Volume of natural gas that is re-gasified and delivered into the downstream natural gas grid from an LNG terminal. (Electricity) Electric energy delivered to the grid.
- Browse Related Terms: British thermal unit (Btu), Cooling degree days (CDD), Gas turbine, Heating degree days (HDD), Injection season, Liquefied natural gas (LNG), Natural Gas, Sendout, Winter heating season
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- The selling side of the open futures contract;
- A trader whose net position in the futures market shows an excess of open sales over open purchases.
- 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 market structure that provides only a real-time market.
- Browse Related Terms: Basis, Daily Deals, Day-ahead markets, Floating Storage, National balancing point (NBP), Real-time market, Single settlement system, Spot market, Two-settlement system, Virtual bidding, Zeebrugge
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The difference in price between electricity purchased from the grid and electricity generated from, for example, purchased natural gas. Also, the difference between gas and electricity futures prices.
- 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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The natural gas market for contractual commitments that are short term (usually a month or less) and that begin in the near future (often the next day, or within days). In electricity, spot markets are usually organized markets for day-ahead and real-time electricity run by an independent system operator or regional transmission organization.
- Browse Related Terms: Basis, Daily Deals, Day-ahead markets, Floating Storage, National balancing point (NBP), Real-time market, Single settlement system, Spot market, Two-settlement system, Virtual bidding, Zeebrugge
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Buying one instrument/commodity and selling another, with a view to profiting from the change in the gap between the two markets.
- 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 plant in which the prime mover is a steam turbine. The steam used to drive the turbine is produced in a boiler where fossil fuels are burned.
- 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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SO2 is a key pollutant in the formation of acid rain and contributes to the formation of fine particles that are associated with significant negative health effects and regional haze.
- Browse Related Terms: clearing, Equity financing, Nitrogen oxide (NOx), NOx Budget Trading Program (NBP), NOx State Implementation Plan (SIP), Power purchase agreement, Sulfur dioxide (SO2)
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An exchange of streams of payments over time according to specified terms. A common type is a fixed-for-floating swap, in which one party agrees to pay a fixed price in return for receiving a changing price (e.g., spot price) from another party.
- 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