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MIBEL
MIBEL (Mercado Ibérico de la Electricidad; Mercado Ibérico de Electricidade) is the Iberian Electricity Market, the common wholesale electricity market of Spain and Portugal, created by treaty and fully launched in 2007.
MIBGAS
MIBGAS (Mercado Ibérico del Gas, Iberian Gas Market) is the organized wholesale natural gas market for Spain and Portugal, matching buy and sell orders daily since December 2015.
MIBRAG
MIBRAG, until 2023 formally the Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft, is a German lignite mining company based in Zeitz, Saxony-Anhalt, operating the Central German district's last two large open pits, Profen and Vereinigtes Schleenhain.
Mica Dam
Mica Dam is a 244-meter-high earthfill dam on the Columbia River in British Columbia that impounds Kinbasket Lake and houses an underground BC Hydro generating station.
Micare Coal Mine
Micare Coal Mine, also known as Minera Carbonífera Río Escondido or MICARE, is a coal mining complex in Nava, Coahuila, Mexico, founded in 1977 and privatized in 1992.
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is Michigan's principal environmental agency, created by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2019 and headquartered in Lansing.
Michigan Public Service Commission
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) is an independent three-member Michigan agency that sets rates for investor-owned electric and gas utilities, reviews energy infrastructure, and oversees pipeline safety.
Micro combined heat and power
Micro combined heat and power, also called micro-CHP or micro-cogeneration, generates heat and electricity simultaneously from one fuel source, typically replacing a domestic boiler burning natural gas.
Micro hydro
Micro hydro is small-scale hydroelectric generation, generally below 100 kilowatts, using run-of-river systems that divert stream flow through a turbine and return it, without a dam or reservoir.
Micro Modular Reactor
The Micro Modular Reactor (MMR) is a helium-cooled microreactor designed by Ultra Safe Nuclear, fueled for about 20 years without refueling and now developed as KRONOS MMR.
Microbial electrolysis cell
A microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) is a bioelectrochemical reactor in which bacteria oxidize organic matter, producing hydrogen from wastewater with much less electricity than conventional water electrolysis.
Microbial enhanced oil recovery
Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is a petroleum engineering method that injects microorganisms and nutrients into oil reservoirs, where their metabolites mobilize residual oil; it is low-cost but rarely applied.
Microcrystalline silicon
Microcrystalline silicon (hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon, μc-Si:H) is a mixed-phase thin-film semiconductor of tiny silicon crystallites in amorphous silicon, used mainly as the absorber in thin-film solar cells.
Microcrystalline wax
Microcrystalline wax (E 905), also known as petroleum wax, is a petroleum-derived wax with a dense, fine-crystal structure that makes it more flexible, adhesive, and crack-resistant than paraffin wax.
Microgrid
A microgrid is a group of interconnected electrical loads and local energy resources that operates as a single controllable entity, running connected to the main grid or islanded from it.
Microinverter
A microinverter is a small power inverter attached to one photovoltaic solar module, converting its DC output to AC so no central string inverter is needed.
Micromorph tandem solar cell
A micromorph tandem solar cell is a thin-film silicon photovoltaic device stacking an amorphous silicon top cell over a microcrystalline silicon bottom cell, introduced in Switzerland in 1994.
Microsoft-PNNL AI-accelerated battery materials discovery
A January 2024 Microsoft-PNNL collaboration in which AI screened over 32 million materials to find a new solid-state battery electrolyte, built into a working prototype.
Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub
The Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub (MACH2) is one of seven clean hydrogen hubs chosen by the US Department of Energy in 2023, covering Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey.
MIDAL Gas Pipeline
The MIDAL Gas Pipeline, also called the Emden-Karlsruhe Pipeline, is a natural gas pipeline in Germany running from Bunde to Ludwigshafen since 1993, operated by GASCADE.
Midcontinent Express Gas Pipeline
The Midcontinent Express Pipeline (MEP) is a 500-mile FERC-regulated interstate natural gas pipeline running from Bennington, Oklahoma, to Butler, Alabama, owned by Kinder Morgan and Energy Transfer.
Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.
The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) is a not-for-profit organization that runs the high-voltage grid and wholesale power markets across 15 US states and Manitoba, serving about 42 million people from Carmel, Indiana.
Middelgrunden
Middelgrunden is an offshore wind farm 3.5 km from Copenhagen, Denmark, with 20 turbines totaling 40 MW, built in 2000 as the world's largest offshore wind farm and the first community-owned one.
Midland cogeneration Venture
Midland Cogeneration Venture (MCV) is a natural gas-fired cogeneration plant in Midland County, Michigan, converted from an abandoned nuclear project and generating 1,633 MW of electricity since 1990.
Midland Crude Oil
Midland crude oil, usually called WTI Midland, is unblended light sweet crude from the Permian Basin delivered at Midland, Texas, and since 2023 a grade in the Dated Brent benchmark.
Midlothian energy facility
The Midlothian energy facility is a 1,734 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Midlothian, Texas, about 26 miles south of Dallas, owned by Vistra Corp and operating in the ERCOT market.
Midrex
Midrex Technologies is a Charlotte, North Carolina company, owned by Kobe Steel, that supplies gas-based direct reduction technology producing most of the world's direct reduced iron.
Midway-Sunset Oil Field
The Midway-Sunset Oil Field is a giant heavy-oil field in Kern County, California, the largest oil field in the continental United States by oil in place.
Midwestern Gas Transmission
Midwestern Gas Transmission is a bi-directional interstate natural gas pipeline running from Portland, Tennessee, through Kentucky and Indiana to near Joliet, Illinois, connecting Appalachian supply to Midwest markets.
Midyan Oil and Gas Field
Midyan Oil and Gas Field (حقل مدين) is a non-associated gas field in northwest Saudi Arabia, discovered by Saudi Aramco in 1992 west of Tabuk and producing from 2017.