To hold off a boat with a staff, boathook, long spar, etc., to prevent her from coming along too heavily. also known as Fend Off.

That portion of an electricity supply system used to deliver electricity from points on the transmission system to consumers.

The power required to energize the magnetic field of a generator.

A tax credit granted for specific types of investments.

The tendency of the sunlight to electricity conversion efficiency of amorphous silicon photovoltaic devices to degrade (drop) upon initial exposure to light.

(ECU)A weighted average of European Community currencies with weighting tending to be proportional to a.

Benefits to employees additional to salary. Typical examples would be company cars, expense.

A company which invests the funds of small private investors in a range of securities. This enables.

Sailor's term for being about to get married, a splice being used to join two ropes together.

Pieces of ice, about the size of a small house, that have broken off a glacier.

To abandon a ship at sea; to place people in a ship's boat or raft and leave them.

The ability to convert energy into other forms, such as heat or chemical reaction, so that it can be retrieved for later use. Also the development, design, construction and operation of devices for storing energy until needed. Technology includes devices ...

The seller must deliver the goods to a pier and place them within reach of the ship's loading equipment. See Terms of Sale.

A popular term for localized or on-site power generation.

A widely used rate of return for performing economic analysis. This method solves for the interest rate that equates the equivalent worth of an alternative's cash receipts or savings to the equivalent worth of cash expenditures, including investments. The ...

A circular projection of the sky vault onto a flat diagram used to determine solar positions and shading effects of landscape features on a solar energy system.

The policy of selecting stocks for your portfolio partly on the grounds of the ethical or.

Loan issued against some security

Cargo shipped in loose condition and of a homogeneous nature.Cargoes that are shipped unpackaged either dry, such as grain and ore, or liquid, such as petroleum products. Bulk service generally is not provided on a regularly scheduled basis, but rather as ...

Small charts showing tidal stream directions and rate of flow.