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Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant

The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, known locally as the A-Plant, is a former United States uranium enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio, operating from 1954 until 2001.

Porvoo refinery

The Porvoo refinery is an oil refinery in Kilpilahti, Porvoo, Finland, owned by Neste and Finland's only crude oil refinery since the Naantali refinery closed in 2021.

POSCO ENERGY

POSCO ENERGY (포스코에너지) was the energy subsidiary of South Korea's POSCO Group. Founded in 1969, it worked in power generation, fuel cells, and LNG before merging into POSCO International in 2023.

POSCO Future M

POSCO Future M (포스코퓨처엠), formerly POSCO Chemical, is a South Korean manufacturer of cathode and anode materials for rechargeable batteries and the only company in Korea producing both.

POSCO Incheon power station

POSCO Incheon power station, also known as the Incheon LNG Combined Cycle Power Plant, is a 3,412 MW LNG-fired power station in Incheon, South Korea.

Poseidon Principles

The Poseidon Principles are a framework launched in 2019 in New York under which signatory banks annually measure and disclose the climate alignment of their ship finance portfolios against IMO decarbonization trajectories.

Posiva

Posiva is a Finnish company, founded in 1995–1996 and owned by TVO and Fortum, building the world's first deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel at Olkiluoto.

Possible reserves

Possible reserves are the most uncertain category of petroleum reserves, less likely to be recoverable than probable reserves, with at least a 10% recovery probability.

Posted price

A posted price is the publicly declared dollar value an oil company stated it would accept for a barrel of crude, used mainly for calculating royalties and taxes.

Potassium metal anode

A potassium metal anode is the metallic potassium negative electrode in potassium metal batteries, offering 687 mAh g⁻¹ capacity, a low potential of −2.93 V, and low cost.

Potassium-ion battery

A potassium-ion battery is a rechargeable battery in which potassium ions move between cathode and graphite anode; it is a low-cost lithium-ion alternative for grid storage, still in development.

Potential induced degradation

Potential induced degradation (PID) is a loss of photovoltaic module power caused by leakage currents that move sodium ions from the glass into the solar cells.

Potential test (petroleum)

A potential test is a well testing procedure in petroleum engineering that estimates the theoretical absolute open flow (AOF) rate at zero sandface backpressure, used for reservoir assessment and production allocation.

Potochnoye Oil Field

Potochnoye Oil Field (Поточное месторождение) is a large oil field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Western Siberia, discovered in 1974 and operated by LUKOIL-Western Siberia.

Potomac Edison

The Potomac Edison Company is an investor-owned electric utility headquartered in Williamsport, Maryland, serving about 295,000 customers in western Maryland and 155,000 in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle as a subsidiary of FirstEnergy.

Potomac Electric Power Company

The Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco) is an electric utility serving Washington, D.C., and Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland, incorporated in 1896 and owned by Exelon.

Pouce Coupe Oil and Gas Field

The Pouce Coupe oil and gas field is a producing field on the Alberta–British Columbia border near Grande Prairie, first drilled for gas in 1920 and now a major Montney tight gas play.

Pouce Coupe South Oil and Gas Field

Pouce Coupe South is an oil and gas field in northwestern Alberta, just east of the British Columbia border, and one of Canada's most active Montney play locations.

Pouch cell

A pouch cell is a lithium-ion battery cell sealed in a flexible aluminum-polymer pouch instead of a rigid metal can, offering low weight and custom sizes.

Povkhovskoye Oil Field

The Povkhovskoye Oil Field (Повховское) is a large, mature onshore oil field near Kogalym in Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1972 and operated by LUKOIL subsidiary TPP Povkhneftegaz.

Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu

The Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail and Yanbu, known as Marafiq, is a Saudi utility serving the Jubail and Yanbu industrial cities since 2003.

Power Assets

Power Assets Holdings Limited, known until 2011 as Hongkong Electric Holdings, is a Hong Kong-listed investment company holding electricity, gas, and renewable energy utilities across several countries.

Power coefficient of reactivity

The power coefficient of reactivity (PCR) is the change in a nuclear reactor's reactivity per percent change in power, summing the fuel temperature, moderator temperature, and void coefficients.

Power flow calculation

A power flow calculation, also called load flow, is a numerical method that computes the steady-state operating point of an electrical grid, giving bus voltages and line power flows.

Power for All

Power for All is a global campaign and nonprofit founded in 2014 to end energy poverty by accelerating decentralized renewable energy like mini-grids and rooftop solar in developing countries.

Power Grid Corporation of India (पावर ग्रिड कॉर्पोरेशन ऑफ़ इंडिया लिमिटेड)

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, known as POWERGRID, is India's largest state-owned power transmission utility, a Government of India Maharatna enterprise incorporated in 1989.

Power of Siberia

Power of Siberia (Сила Сибири) is a natural gas pipeline operated by Gazprom from eastern Siberian fields to China, the first to carry Russian gas directly there.

Power of Siberia 2

Power of Siberia 2 is a proposed gas pipeline that would carry up to 50 billion cubic meters of Russian gas yearly to China through Mongolia.

Power optimizer

A power optimizer is a DC-to-DC converter fitted to an individual photovoltaic module that tracks that module's maximum power point before power reaches a central string inverter.

Power outage

A power outage, also called a power failure or power cut, is the loss of electric service, ranging from brief interruptions to blackouts lasting days or weeks.