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| Point-to-Point Service | Category | | | Point-to-Point Service is a wholesale transaction to a specific utility. | Electric Utility |
| Stranded Costs | Category | | | Stranded Costs refers to the money a utility loses when it no longer can recover its investment in generating plants and other deferred costs such as a wholesale customer switching providers or types of services. | Electric Utility |
| Retail Transmission Service | Category | | | Retail transmission service, also called retail wheeling, involves either a independent power producer, cooperative, or electric -generating utility selling its transmission services to another entity which will then sell the electricity at retail to the ultimate customer. | Electric Utility |
| Kilowatt hours | Category | | | The basic unit of measuring electricity. | Electric Utility |
| Base Load | Category | | | The minimum constant level of natural gas or power required in a given time period by a utility or power company. | Electric Utility |
| Class of Service | Category | | | A utility's sales categories which includes residential, commercial, or industrial customers for resale. | Electric Utility |