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Schahfer Generating Station
The R.M. Schahfer Generating Station is a coal-fired power plant in Wheatfield, Indiana, owned by NIPSCO, with its last two coal units built in 1983 and 1986.
Scherer Steam Generating Station
Plant Scherer, also called the Scherer Steam Generating Station, is a coal-fired power plant in Juliette, Georgia, operated by Georgia Power with nearly 3,720 MW.
Schiehallion Oil and Gas Field
Schiehallion is a deepwater oil and gas field west of the Shetland Islands, discovered by BP in 1993 and producing through the Glen Lyon FPSO vessel.
Schlumberger
Schlumberger, known since 2022 as SLB, is a global energy technology company founded in 1926 by Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger that pioneered electrical well logging.
Schuko
Schuko, short for Schutzkontakt, is a German earthing plug and socket system, plug type F, introduced by Albert Büttner in 1925 and rated 16 A, 250 V.
Schwarze Pumpe power station
Schwarze Pumpe power station (Kraftwerk Schwarze Pumpe) is a German lignite-fired power station near Spremberg in Brandenburg, commissioned in 1997 and scheduled to run until 2038.
Schwechat refinery
The Schwechat refinery is the only oil refinery in Austria, operated by OMV just outside Vienna. Built in 1960, it processes 9.6 million tons of crude annually.
SCOOP/STACK
SCOOP/STACK is a pair of unconventional oil and gas plays, the South Central Oklahoma Oil Province and the Sooner Trend, in the Anadarko Basin of central Oklahoma.
Scope 3
Scope 3 emissions are indirect greenhouse gas emissions across a company's value chain, one of three scopes defined by the GHG Protocol and typically the largest.
Scotford Upgrader
The Scotford Upgrader, opened in 2003 as part of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, converts oil sands bitumen into synthetic crude oil and feeds the Quest carbon capture facility.
Scotia Gas Field
The Scotia Gas Field is a coal seam gas field in the Bowen Basin, Queensland, operated by Santos and producing since 2002 as its first coal seam methane venture.
Scotland–North Ireland Pipeline (SNIP)
The Scotland–North Ireland Pipeline (SNIP) is a subsea gas pipeline from Twynholm, Scotland to Islandmagee, Northern Ireland, carrying almost all of Northern Ireland's natural gas.
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks
Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is the electricity network business of SSE plc, running transmission in northern Scotland and distribution in northern Scotland and central southern England.
ScottishPower
ScottishPower, also known as Scottish Power plc, is a UK energy utility owned by Spain's Iberdrola, formed in 1990 and combining generation, networks, and retail supply.
Scram
A scram, also called a reactor trip, is the emergency shutdown of a nuclear reactor in which all control rods are rapidly inserted to stop the fission chain reaction.
Scrap preheating
Scrap preheating is a steelmaking technique in which ferrous scrap destined for an electric arc furnace is heated by the furnace's hot off-gases, saving about 60 kWh per ton.
Screen-printed silicon solar cell
A screen-printed silicon solar cell is a crystalline silicon photovoltaic cell whose silver and aluminum contacts are applied by printing metal paste through a screen mesh and firing it.
Sea Link (interconnector)
Sea Link is a proposed 2 GW HVDC electricity transmission link between Suffolk and Kent in England, developed by National Grid to reinforce the grid between East Anglia and the South East.
Sea Lion Field
Sea Lion Field is an offshore oil field in the North Falkland Basin about 220 kilometers north of the Falkland Islands, discovered in 2010 by Rockhopper Exploration.
Seabrook nuclear power plant
Seabrook Station is a nuclear power plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire, whose single reactor supplies about 1,245 megawatts to the New England grid, operated by NextEra Energy.
Seadrill
Seadrill is a Bermuda-based offshore drilling contractor owning and operating drillships and semi-submersible rigs for oil and gas companies, listed on the New York Stock Exchange since October 2022.
Seagreen
Seagreen is a 1,075 MW offshore wind farm around 27 km off Angus, Scotland, with 114 Vestas turbines, fully operational since October 2023 as Scotland's largest offshore wind farm.
Seahawk Oil Pipeline
The Seahawk Oil Pipeline is a 20-mile crude oil pipeline on the Texas Gulf Coast, running from Edna to the Port of Calhoun, which began operations in 2021.
Seasonal energy efficiency ratio
The seasonal energy efficiency ratio (SEER) is a rating for the cooling efficiency of central air conditioners and heat pumps, with higher numbers meaning less electricity for the same cooling.
Seattle City Light
Seattle City Light is the publicly owned, not-for-profit electric utility of the City of Seattle, created in 1910 and serving more than 503,000 customer premises with carbon-neutral electricity.
Seawater electrolysis
Seawater electrolysis is the electrochemical splitting of seawater into hydrogen and oxygen, directly or after desalination, as a route to green hydrogen. Its main obstacles are corrosion, chlorine side reactions, and limited catalyst lifetime.
Seaway Pipeline
The Seaway Pipeline is a crude oil pipeline linking Cushing, Oklahoma, to the Texas Gulf Coast, owned equally by Enterprise Products Partners and Enbridge and built in 1976.
Sebei 1 Gas Field
Sebei 1 Gas Field (涩北一号气田) is a Quaternary biogenic natural gas field in the eastern Qaidam Basin, Qinghai, China, discovered in 1964 and part of China's largest biogas producing area.
Sebei 2 Gas Field
Sebei 2 Gas Field (涩北二号气田) is a shallow Quaternary biogenetic natural gas field in the eastern Qaidam Basin, northwestern China, operated by PetroChina Qinghai Oilfield Company.
Second-generation biofuels
Second-generation biofuels are liquid transport fuels made from non-food biomass like crop and forest residues and switchgrass, in contrast to first-generation corn or sugarcane ethanol.