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Shoals Technologies Group

Shoals Technologies Group is an American design-engineering company that makes the wiring, connectors, and power-distribution components carrying electricity from solar panels and batteries, founded in 1996 in Portland, Tennessee.

Shockley–Queisser limit

The Shockley–Queisser limit is the maximum theoretical efficiency of a single-junction solar cell, 33.16% under one-sun illumination, calculated by William Shockley and Hans-Joachim Queisser in 1961.

Shoreham nuclear power plant

The Shoreham nuclear power plant was a completed but never commercially operated nuclear plant on Long Island, New York, closed in a 1989 settlement after costing about $6 billion.

Short-circuit analysis

Short-circuit analysis is an electrical engineering method for calculating fault currents and voltages in a power system, used to size protective devices and verify equipment ratings.

Short-circuit breaking capacity

Short-circuit breaking capacity is the maximum fault current a circuit breaker or fuse can safely interrupt at its rated voltage, called interrupting capacity in North America.

Short-circuit ratio

The short-circuit ratio (SCR) is a power system metric that quantifies the strength of an AC grid at a point of interconnection, with low values indicating a weak system.

Short-term load forecasting

Short-term load forecasting (STLF) predicts electrical power demand over horizons from an hour to a week or more, feeding unit commitment, dispatch, and market bidding.

Shoubra El-Kheima power plant

Shoubra El-Kheima power plant is a steam thermal power station in Shoubra El-Kheima, Qalyubia, Egypt, built between 1984 and 1988 with four 315 MW steam units.

Shree Singaji Thermal Power Project

Shree Singaji Thermal Power Project, also called Shri Singaji Thermal Power Station, is a 2,520 MW coal-fired power station at Dongalia, Khandwa district, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Shuaiba North power plant

Shuaiba North power plant is a Kuwaiti cogeneration power and water distillation station in Al Ahmadi governorate, whose 875.5 MW combined-cycle plant was commissioned in 2010.

Shuaiba SWCC power plant

The Shuaiba SWCC power plant is a power and desalination complex on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast about 120 km south of Jeddah, supplying water to Makkah, Jeddah, Taif, and Al-Baha.

Shuaibah IWPP

Shuaibah IWPP, also called Shuaibah 3, was Saudi Arabia's first independent water and power plant, generating 900 MW and 880,000 m³ of desalinated water daily.

Shuangdeng Group

Shuangdeng Group Co., Ltd. (双登集团), known by the brand name Shoto, is a Chinese manufacturer of energy storage batteries headquartered in Taizhou, Jiangsu, and listed in Hong Kong in 2025.

Shuangliao power station

Shuangliao power station (双辽发电厂) is a coal-fired power plant in Shuangliao, Siping, Jilin province, China, owned by CHN Energy, with five coal units totaling 2,000 MW.

Shuangyashan power station

Shuangyashan power station (双鸭山发电厂), also rendered Guodian Shuangyashan Power Plant, is a six-unit coal-fired power plant in Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang, China, totaling about 2,030 MW and built in two phases between 1988 and 2008.

Shubarkol Komir

Shubarkol Komir (Шұбаркөл Көмір) is a Kazakh joint-stock company mining the Shubarkol deposit in the Karaganda Region since 1985, ranking third nationally for coal extraction.

Shuguang Oil Field

Shuguang Oil Field (曙光油田) is an oil field in the Liaohe Basin, Liaoning Province, China, discovered in 1975 and developed chiefly for heavy oil with steam-based thermal recovery.

Shuibuya hydroelectric plant

Shuibuya hydroelectric plant (清江水布垭水电站) is a 1,840 MW hydroelectric plant on the Qingjiang River in Badong County, Hubei, China, whose 233 m concrete-faced rockfill dam is the world's tallest of its type.

Shuidonggou power station

Shuidonggou power station (水洞沟电厂), also known as the Jingneng Ningdong power plant, is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Lingwu, Yinchuan, in China's Ningxia region, operating since 2011.

Shuikou hydroelectric plant

Shuikou hydroelectric plant (水口水电站) is a 1,400 MW hydroelectric station on the Min River in Fujian, China, the largest conventional hydropower station in East China when completed in 1996.

Shunbei Oil and Gas Field

Shunbei Oil and Gas Field (顺北) is an ultra-deep fault-controlled oil and gas field in the central Tarim Basin of Xinjiang, China, discovered in 2016 and operated by Sinopec.

Shunt reactor

A shunt reactor is an inductive device connected in parallel with high-voltage transmission lines to absorb capacitive reactive power, preventing excessive voltages on lightly loaded lines and cables.

Shuopu New Materials

Shuopu New Materials, formally Hunan Shuopu New Materials Co. (湖南烁普新材料有限公司), was a Chinese manufacturer of wet-process lithium-ion power battery separators in Changsha, Hunan, founded in 2017.

Shuqaiq 2 IWPP

Shuqaiq 2 IWPP is an oil-fired power and desalination plant on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast, generating 850 MW and 212,000 m³ of water daily.

Shuqaiq Steam Power Plant

The Shuqaiq Steam Power Plant is an oil-fired steam power station at Shuqaiq on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast, owned and operated by the Saudi Electricity Company.

Shurtan Oil and Gas Field

Shurtan Oil and Gas Field (Sho'rtan; Шуртан) is a giant gas condensate field in southern Uzbekistan, discovered in 1958, producing since 1980, and operated by state company Uzbekneftegaz.

Shushufindi Oil and Gas Field

Shushufindi Oil and Gas Field (Shushufindi-Aguarico) is a giant oil field in the Ecuadorian Amazon's Sucumbíos province, discovered in 1969 and producing over 1.3 billion barrels.

Shutdown margin

Shutdown margin is the reactivity by which a nuclear reactor is, or would be, subcritical, assuming all control rods inserted except the highest-worth rod, which is assumed stuck withdrawn.

Shuweihat S1 power plant

Shuweihat S1 is a gas-fired power and desalination complex at Jebel Dhanna, about 250 km west of Abu Dhabi, delivering 1,500 MW and 100 million gallons of water daily from 2005.

Shuweihat S2 power plant

The Shuweihat S2 power plant is a gas-fired combined-cycle power and seawater desalination plant about 250 km west of Abu Dhabi city, completed in 2011.