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Service drop

A service drop is the overhead conductor assembly carrying electricity from a utility's distribution line, usually the last pole, to a building, where the customer's service entrance begins.

SES AI

SES AI Corporation, NYSE: SES, is a Woburn, Massachusetts company founded in 2012 that makes AI-enhanced lithium-metal and lithium-ion batteries for EVs, drones, and energy storage.

Settling basin

A settling basin, also called a desilting basin or desander, is a widened, deepened section of a water channel where slowed flow lets sediment settle before turbines.

Seven Generations Energy

Seven Generations Energy was a Calgary oil and gas company founded in 2008 that developed liquids-rich Montney resources in Alberta, becoming Canada's largest condensate producer.

Severe accident management

Severe accident management is the set of actions during a nuclear power plant accident to prevent escalation, mitigate a severe accident's consequences, and achieve a safe stable state.

Severn Barrage

The Severn Barrage is a proposed tidal barrage across the Severn Estuary between England and Wales that would generate electricity from the estuary's 14-meter tidal range; it has never been built.

Severny Coal Mine

Severny Coal Mine (razrez Severny) is one of three giant open-pit coal mines at the Ekibastuz basin in Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan, opened in 1954, producing 10 million tons a year.

Severo-Chaselskoye Gas and Condensate Field

Severo-Chaselskoye, also rendered North-Chaselskoye, is an oil, gas and condensate field in Yamalo-Nenets, West Siberia, discovered in 1987 and started by NOVATEK in 2024 for domestic gas supply.

Severo-Danilovskoye Oil and Gas Field

Severo-Danilovskoye (Северо-Даниловское) is an oil and gas condensate field in the Katangsky district of Irkutsk Region, East Siberia, Russia, discovered by Rosneft in 2011 and operated by its subsidiary Verkhnechonskneftegaz.

Severo-Komsomolskoye Oil and Gas Field

Severo-Komsomolskoye, also called North-Komsomolskoye, is an onshore oil and gas condensate field in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area of northern West Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1969 and developed by SevKomNeftegaz.

Severo-Labatyuganskoye Oil Field

The Severo-Labatyuganskoye (Северо-Лабатьюганское) oil field lies in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Western Siberia, 273 km northwest of Surgut; discovered in 2000, it is operated by Surgutneftegas.

Severo-Priobskoye oil field

Severo-Priobskoye (Северо-Приобское), also the North Priobskoye license territory, is the northern part of the giant Priobskoye oil field in Western Siberia, discovered in 1982 and operated by a Rosneft subsidiary.

Severo-Talakanskoye oil field

Severo-Talakanskoye (Северо-Талаканское нефтяное месторождение) is an onshore oil field in the Lensky district of Yakutia, Russia, discovered in 2007 and part of the Talakan group operated by Surgutneftegas since 2011.

Severo-Urengoyskoye field

Severo-Urengoyskoye field (Северо-Уренгойское месторождение) is a gas and gas condensate field in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District of northern West Siberia, Russia, developed by ZAO Nortgas and producing since 2001.

Severo-Zapadnaya power station

Severo-Zapadnaya power station, also known as the North-West CHP, is a 900 MW gas-fired combined heat and power station in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and the first Russian plant built with new-generation combined-cycle technology.

Severočeské doly

Severočeské doly is a Czech brown coal mining company headquartered in Chomutov and wholly owned by ČEZ, the largest Czech lignite producer with two surface mines.

SF6 circuit breaker

An SF6 circuit breaker is a high-voltage switching device that interrupts electrical current in sulfur hexafluoride gas, which combines excellent arc quenching with extreme climate impact.

SFC Energy

SFC Energy is a German fuel cell manufacturer founded in 2000 and headquartered in Brunnthal near Munich, producing direct methanol and hydrogen fuel cells for defense, industrial, and leisure markets.

SFR (Forsmark)

SFR (Swedish: Slutförvar för kortlivat radioaktivt avfall) is an underground repository at Forsmark, Sweden, where SKB has deposited short-lived radioactive waste in bedrock beneath the Baltic Sea since 1988.

SGK-Novosibirsk

SGK-Novosibirsk (АО «СГК-Новосибирск») is a Russian heat and power company serving Novosibirsk, which supplies heat to 86% of the city's residents from five plants.

SGL Carbon

SGL Carbon SE is a German manufacturer of carbon-based materials, specialty graphites, and carbon-fiber composites, headquartered in Wiesbaden and supplying graphite anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

SGL Carbon SIGRACET GDL

SIGRACET GDL is a brand of porous carbon gas diffusion layers made by German company SGL Carbon for PEM fuel cells, widely used in fuel cell research.

Shaan-Jing Gas Pipeline

The Shaan-Jing Gas Pipeline (陕京线, short for Shaanxi–Beijing) is a natural gas pipeline system carrying gas from the Ordos Basin in Shaanxi to Beijing and Tianjin.

Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry

Shaanxi Coal and Chemical Industry is a state-owned Chinese coal and energy group headquartered in Shaanxi Province, controlling shareholder of the Shanghai-listed Shaanxi Coal Industry.

Shaanxi ENERGY Investment

Shaanxi ENERGY Investment (陕西能源) is a state-controlled coal-electricity integration enterprise in Shaanxi Province, China, mining coal and generating power, listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since 2023.

Shaanxi Gas Pipeline Network

The Shaanxi Gas Pipeline Network (陕西输气管网) is the system of natural gas pipelines in Shaanxi Province, China, combining national trunk lines to Beijing with provincial distribution.

Shaanxi Youser Yulin power station

Shaanxi Youser Yulin power station (陕西有色榆林新材料集团发电分公司) is a captive coal-fired power plant in Yulin, Shaanxi, China, with five 330 MW units supplying the owner's aluminum smelter since 2012.

Shaanxi Yulin Energy Group

Shaanxi Yulin Energy Group (陕西榆林能源集团) is a Chinese state-owned energy company founded in Yulin, Shaanxi, in July 2012, active in coal mining, power generation, and coal chemicals.

Shadegan Oil Field

The Shadegan oil field is an onshore oil field in Khuzestan province, southwest Iran, about 60 km southeast of Ahvaz, discovered in 1968 and producing since 1988.

Shah Deniz gas field

Shah Deniz (Şah Deniz) is a giant gas and condensate field in the Azerbaijani sector of the Caspian Sea, discovered in 1999, about 70 km southeast of Baku.