Alphabet Soup
(Government agencies)
(Government agencies)
EPA
What is the Environmental Protection Agencey?
Regulates wastewater discharge from electric power generation facilities in the United States.
What is the EPA?
An increase in customer demand that is significantly above base load demand
What is Peak Load?
This energy comes from the heat stored in the Earth’s crust.
What is geothermal?
When coal is burned, it leaves this residue, one of the most significant industrial waste products by volume generated in the United States
What is ash?
OSHA
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
Foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States
What is the Department of Labor? (DOL)
This converts one form of electrical power into another form of electrical power.
What is an Inverter?
This substance is made from plant matter that has been transformed over millions of years by heat and pressure.
What is coal?
In nuclear power, the energy in the atoms of uranium is released by splitting its nuclei which creates this.
What is radioactive contamination / elements?
NRC
What is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission?
To ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions.
What is the Department of Energy (DOE)?
An enterprise that is the only seller of a good or service.
What is a monopoly?
Hydroelectric plants utilize turbines and generators to convert this energy in flowing water into electricity.
What is kinetic energy?
The most notable drawback of wind turbine installation are these.
What are bird deaths?
NFPA
What is the National Fire Protection Association?
Will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values, with honor and integrity.
What is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?
This natural process involves exchanges between the Earth’s atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, and geological formations.
What is the carbon cycle?
A difference in this atmospheric condition causes wind turbine rotor blades to spin.
What is air currents or pressure?
Use of fossil fuels to power electric generating plants increases the amount of this chemical released into the atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide?
NERC
What is the North American Electric Reliability Corporation?
Assures the effective and efficient reduction of risks to the reliability and security of the grid.
What is NERC?
Exelon Corporation is the nation’s largest one of these, serving more than 10 million customers through six fully regulated transmission and distribution utilities.
What is a utility company?
Natural gas is collected via this process where wells are drilled to gather underground gas and bring it to the surface at the wellhead.
What is extraction?
Name 3 types of power that do not generate greenhouse gas emissions.
What are wind, solar, hydroelectric and nuclear power? (any 3)