INDUSTRY ACRONYMS & JARGON
This independent agency regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil. It also reviews proposals to build liquefied natural gas terminals and interstate natural gas pipelines as well as licensing hydropower projects.
What is FERC? Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
His seemingly simple algebraic formula (E=mc2) represents the correlation of energy to matter (energy equivalence of any given amount of mass).
Who is Albert Einstein?
This state is the top solar producer in the U.S.
What is California?
This former U.S. Representative from the Bee Hive state is now the CEO representing America's Electric Cooperatives.
Who is Jim Matheson?
It's the "D" in "AED," or Automated Electric this-- a portable unit able to provide a life-saving electric shock to restart a heart or correct an irregular heartbeat.
What is a defibrillator?
Those who earn this triple-letter designation have demonstrated competence with communication concepts as well as detailed knowledge about the complexities of the cooperative community.
What is the CCC?
(Certified Cooperative Communicator)
Ranked the safest state in America by US News and World Report, its largest electric co-op imports power from another country.
What is Maine?
This California desert is the location of Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, the world's largest solar plant.
What is the Mojave Desert?
This Kansas-based insurance exchange supports its members by providing safety training and helping them take advantage of their excellent safety records to save on their insurance costs.
What is Federated, or Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange.
This 1970s horror spoof is about a scientist who repeats his infamous grandfather's electrifying reanimation experiments. Things start to go wrong when Igor returns from the brain depository with something "Abby Normal."
What is Young Frankenstein?
Pronounced, FRAHNK-en-steen.
This farm-related cabinet agency is headed by Sonny Perdue, a longstanding member of Flint Energies, a Georgia electric cooperative.
What is the USDA?
(Department of Agriculture)
Pip pip, Cheerio! Heating consultants use this measure of energy as a common unit by which to compare the heat output of various fuels. It's the amount of heat needed to raise one pound of water by one degree Fahrenheit.
What is Btu? British thermal unit.
Producing 36 million megawatts hours (MWh) of electricity, this state boasts the largest number of wind farms in the U.S.
What is Texas?
This nonprofit cooperative is NOT a bank, but it is a lender to many co-ops across the network.
What is CFC, or National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation?
Although most people think of Thomas Edison as the inventor of electric power generation, it was this Serbian-American's ideas that contributed more to the design of today's alternating current system of electricity supply.
Who is Nicola Tesla?
CFC provides its members with this annual set of financial and operating ratios, allowing co-ops to better understand how their cooperative has performed historically and against other cooperatives in the nation.
What is KRTA?
or What is the Key Ratio Trend Analysis?
It makes sense that the sports teams of this American college are called "the Engineers;" it was the first American college to offer an electrical engineering curriculum.
What is M I T?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest hydroelectric power station located in this country.
What is China?
"The Power of Human Connections" is the tagline for this go-to co-op resource.
What is Touchstone Energy?
This freshwater South American creature produces 500 volts of electricity through internal organs that act like batteries.
What is an electric eel?