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| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | The costs that an electric utility avoids by purchasing power an independent producer rather than building a new generation facility itself ; the amount of money that an electric utility would need to spend for the next increment of electric generation to produce or purchase elsewhere the power that it instead buys from a cogenerator or small-power producer. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | (Regulatory) The amount of moneythat an electric utility would need to spend for the next increment of electricgeneration to produce or purchase elsewhere the power that it instead buys from acogenerator or small-power producer. Federal law establishes broad guidelines fordetermining how much a qualifying facility (QF) gets paid for power sold to theutility. (references) |
| The cost the utilitywould incur but for the existence of an independent generator or otherenergy service option. Avoided cost rates have been used as the powerpurchase price utilities offer independent suppliers (see Qualifying Facilities). (references) | |
| The incremental cost to an electric power producer to generate or purchase a unit of electricity or capacity or both. (references) | |
Environment | The cost a utility would incur to generate the next increment of electric capacity using its own resources; many landfill gas projects' buy back rates are based on avoided costs. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: AVOIDED COST |
| Specialty definitions using "AVOIDED COST": Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act of 1978, PURPA ♦ QUALIFYING FACILITY. (references) |
Expression using "AVOIDED COST": regulatory avoided cost. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "AVOIDED COST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | undgåede omkostninger (regulatory avoided cost). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | vermeden kosten (regulatory avoided cost). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | coût évité (regulatory avoided cost). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | vermeidbare Kosten (avoidable cost, avoidable costs, regulatory avoided cost). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | costo evitato (regulatory avoided cost). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | avoideday ostcay coste evitado (regulatory avoided cost). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-i-o-o-s-t-v" | |
-3 letters: dovecots. | |
-4 letters: actives, addicts, advects, advices, advised, avocets, avoided, caddies, cestoid, coasted, codeias, coedits, cooties, costive, dacoits, datives, didacts, discoed, dovecot, iodated, iodates, octaves, octavos, osteoid, scooted, toadied, toadies, toddies, vistaed. | |
-5 letters: active, addict, advect, advice, advise, avocet, avoids, avoset, caddie, caddis, cadets, cavies, cestoi, civets, coated, coatis, codeia, coedit, cootie, cosied, costae. | |
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