| Acre-feet/acre-foot |
A unit of measure of water. Equals approximately 326,000 gallons or the amount used by a typical family of four in one year. |
| APS |
Arizona Public Service |
| Baseload Power Plant |
A power production facility that generates electricity at a constant rate and satisfies some or all of a region's continuous power demand. These plants are typically powered by non-renewable energy sources - coal, oil, gas and nuclear and renewable energy sources - hydroelectric, geothermal and OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion). |
| CAP |
Central Arizona Project
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| CAWCD |
Central Arizona Water Conservation District |
| Central Arizona Project system |
An Arizona aqueduct system stretching 336 miles from near Lake Havasu on the Colorado River to south of Tucson. It carries approximately 1.6 million acre-feet of renewable Colorado River water per year to central and southern Arizona. For more on this system visit: cap-az.com
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| EPA |
US Environmental Protection Agency
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| Lox-NOx |
Anti pollution equipment designed to reduce NOx levels in industrial combustion streams by using specialized burners. |
| Megawatt |
A unit of measure of electricity. Equals one million watts. One megawatt of power plant production capacity typically can support between 750 to 1000 average homes. |
| NGS |
Navajo Generating Station |
| NOx |
A single term for mono-nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2). Rapid oxidation (burning) of fossil fuels produces these oxides, especially at high temperatures.
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| Renewable energy |
Energy generated from natural resources like wind, tides, the sun and the earth's heat which are naturally replenished. |
| Renewable water supplies |
Typically refers to surface water resources that are more readily renewable than groundwater. |
| Scrubber systems |
A range of air pollution control devices used to remove some particulates and/or gases from industrial combustion exhaust. |
| Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) |
An (expensive) anti-pollution system that changes NOx in a combustion exhaust stream into diatomic nitrogen, nitrogen gas and water. |
| SRP |
Salt River Project
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