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Pastoria Solar Project
The Pastoria Solar Project is a 105 MW solar power plant in Kern County, California, built by Calpine and completed in 2026 to help decarbonize the State Water Project by 2035.
PAT Scheme
The Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme is India's market-based program for cutting energy use in energy-intensive industries, run by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency.
Patent box (Italy)
The Italian patent box was an optional tax regime, in force from 2015, that exempted part of company income from patents, trademarks, designs, and know-how.
Pathfinder Atomic Power Plant
The Pathfinder Atomic Power Plant was a prototype boiling water reactor near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, operated by Northern States Power from 1966 to 1967.
Patnow power station
Patnow power station (Elektrownia Pątnów) is a lignite-fired power station at Pątnów near Konin in central Poland, owned by ZE PAK; after retirements only its 474 MW unit, Poland's first supercritical unit, remains in operation.
Patoka (oil hub)
Patoka is the second-largest crude oil storage and pipeline hub in the United States after Cushing, Oklahoma, located in Marion County, Illinois, and serving as the terminus of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Patos-Marinza Oil Field
The Patos-Marinza oil field is a heavy-oil field in central Albania, east of Fier, discovered in 1928 and one of the largest onshore oil fields in Europe.
Patratu Coal Mine
The Patratu Coal Mine is a proposed underground coal mine in Ramgarh district, Jharkhand, India, planned by Central Coalfields Limited with a capacity of 5 million tonnes per annum.
Patratu JSEB power station
The Patratu JSEB power station, formally Patratu Thermal Power Station (PTPS), was a 840 MW coal-fired power station at Patratu in Jharkhand, India, owned by the Jharkhand State Electricity Board.
Patratu Vidyut Utpadan Nigam
Patratu Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited, commonly abbreviated PVUNL, is an Indian power generation company incorporated in 2015, owned 74 percent by NTPC and 26 percent by Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam.
Pattern Energy
Pattern Energy is a privately held American clean energy company headquartered in San Francisco, operating more than 40 wind, solar, and transmission facilities across North America.
Patterson-UTI Energy (company)
Patterson-UTI Energy is a Houston, Texas-based provider of land-based contract drilling and completion services to oil and gas companies, formed in 2001 and traded on Nasdaq as PTEN.
Paulínia Refinery
The Paulínia Refinery (REPLAN) is a Petrobras oil refinery in Paulínia, Brazil, opened in 1972 and the largest in the country at 434,000 barrels per day.
Paulo Afonso IV hydroelectric plant
Paulo Afonso IV is a 2,462 MW hydroelectric plant on the São Francisco River at Paulo Afonso, Bahia, Brazil, the largest plant of the Paulo Afonso Complex.
Paute Molino hydroelectric plant
The Paute Molino hydroelectric plant, also known as Cola de San Pablo, is a 1,100 MW hydroelectric station on the Paute River in Ecuador, operating since 1983.
Pauto Sur Oil and Gas Field
The Pauto Sur Oil and Gas Field is an onshore field in Colombia's Llanos basin, Casanare, discovered in 1995 and described as the country's largest gas producer.
Pavlodar-Shymkent Oil Pipeline
The Pavlodar-Shymkent Oil Pipeline (Russian: Нефтепровод Павлодар – Шымкент) is an operating crude oil trunk pipeline in Kazakhstan, running from Pavlodar in the north to Shymkent in the south.
Payara Oil and Gas Field
Payara is an offshore oil field in Guyana's Stabroek Block, operated by ExxonMobil, producing up to 220,000 barrels daily through the Prosperity FPSO since 2023.
Paydar West Oil and Gas Field
Paydar West Oil and Gas Field is an onshore heavy oil field in western Iran that straddles the Iran-Iraq border, discovered in 1980 with production beginning in 1995.
Pazanan Oil and Gas Field
Pazanan Oil and Gas Field (پازنان) is a supergiant onshore field in the Zagros Fold Belt of southwest Iran, discovered in 1936 and proven as an oilfield in 1961.
PBFA-II
PBFA-II (Particle Beam Fusion Accelerator II) was a 36-module pulsed-power accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, activated in 1985 to drive inertial confinement fusion targets with light ion beams.
PbI2 passivation in perovskite solar cells
PbI2 passivation is the deliberate use of excess lead iodide at perovskite solar cell surfaces and grain boundaries to reduce carrier recombination, first demonstrated in 2014 and widely adopted since.
PbS quantum dot solar cell
A PbS quantum dot solar cell is a photovoltaic device using lead sulfide nanocrystals as the absorber, tunable to capture infrared light; record efficiency is 15.45%.
PDVSA
PDVSA, or Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., is Venezuela's state-owned oil and gas company, created in 1975 and given control of the nationalized oil industry in 1976.
PDX (tokamak)
PDX (Poloidal Divertor Experiment) was a tokamak at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory that tested poloidal divertors for impurity control, operated from 1978 to 1983, and was converted into PBX.
Peabody Energy
Peabody Energy is a St. Louis-based coal company founded in Chicago in 1883, among the largest U.S. coal producers with mines in the United States and Australia.
Peace Pipeline (Canada)
The Peace Pipeline is a natural gas liquids pipeline system in western Canada owned and operated by Pembina Pipeline Corporation, carrying ethane-plus, propane-plus, and condensate from northeastern British Columbia and Alberta to Edmonton.
Peach Bottom nuclear power plant
Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station is a two-unit nuclear power plant near Delta, Pennsylvania, with two boiling water reactors generating about 2,770 MW, co-owned by Constellation and PSEG.
Peak Downs Coal Mine
Peak Downs Coal Mine is a large open-pit metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin, about 30 km south of Moranbah, opened in 1972 and operated by BMA, a BHP and Mitsubishi joint venture.
Peak oil
Peak oil, or Hubbert peak oil, is the point when petroleum extraction reaches its maximum rate and production enters terminal decline, a concept from geophysicist M. King Hubbert.