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Tokai Carbon

Tokai Carbon (東海カーボン) is a Japanese carbon products manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo. Founded in 1918 to make graphite electrodes for steelmaking, it now also produces lithium-ion battery anode materials.

Tokai Reprocessing Plant

The Tokai Reprocessing Plant (東海再処理工場) was Japan's first spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, located at Tokai-mura in Ibaraki Prefecture and run from 1977 to 2007 by JAEA.

Tokaimura nuclear accidents

The Tokaimura nuclear accidents were a 1997 fire and explosion and a 1999 criticality accident at nuclear fuel facilities in Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan, killing two workers.

Tokamak

A tokamak is a doughnut-shaped device that confines plasma with magnetic fields, proposed by Andrei Sakharov and Igor Tamm around 1950, and the leading design for fusion power.

Tokamak control

Tokamak control is the real-time feedback and feedforward control that keeps tokamak plasma at desired current, position, shape, and stability, adjusting magnetic coils and heating within milliseconds.

Tokamak Energy

Tokamak Energy is a British company founded in 2009 as a UK Atomic Energy Authority spin-out, developing compact spherical tokamaks with high-temperature superconducting magnets for fusion power.

Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

The Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) was an experimental tokamak at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory that operated from 1982 to 1997 and set world records for fusion power.

Toktogul hydroelectric plant

The Toktogul hydroelectric plant (Токтогульская ГЭС) is a 1,440 MW hydroelectric station on the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan, the country's largest, in service since 1975.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (東京電力)

Tokyo Electric Power Company (東京電力), known as TEPCO, is Japan's largest electric utility, supplying the Tokyo region since 1951 and operating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Toledo Edison

The Toledo Edison Company is an investor-owned electric distribution utility headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, serving ten northwest Ohio counties and regulated by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio as a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp.

Toledo refinery (Cenovus)

The Toledo refinery is an oil refinery in Oregon, Ohio, near Toledo, opened in 1919 and owned by Cenovus Energy since 2023, with a capacity of 160,000 barrels per day.

Tolk power station

Tolk power station, also called Tolk Generating Station, is a two-unit, 1,067 MW coal-fired plant near Muleshoe in Lamb County, Texas, owned by Xcel Energy subsidiary SPS.

Tolmount Oil and Gas Field

Tolmount is a natural gas field in the UK sector of the southern North Sea, discovered by E.ON in 2011 and achieving first gas in April 2022.

Tom-Usinskaya power station

Tom-Usinskaya power station (Томь-Усинская ГРЭС, Tom-Usinskaya GRES) is a coal-fired condensation power station on the Tom River in Myski, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, and the largest power station in Kuzbass.

Tomari nuclear power plant

The Tomari nuclear power plant is a three-unit plant in Tomari Village, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by Hokkaido Electric Power Company; all units have been suspended since 2012.

Tomatō-Atsuma power station

Tomatō-Atsuma power station (苫東厚真発電所) is a 1,650 MW coal-fired power station in Atsuma, Hokkaido, Japan, Hokkaido's largest, whose earthquake damage triggered a 2018 island-wide blackout.

Tommeliten A Oil and Gas Field

Tommeliten A is a gas and condensate field in the southern Norwegian North Sea, 25 kilometers southwest of Ekofisk, operated by ConocoPhillips and brought on stream in October 2023.

Tomoporo Oil and Gas Field

Tomoporo is an oil field in the southeastern Maracaibo basin of western Venezuela, producing light- to medium-grade crude; since 2024 it has been part of the Petroquiriquire joint venture.

Ton tower

The ton tower, or Tonnenmast, is a lattice steel transmission tower whose three cross-arms form a barrel-like silhouette, the tallest and narrowest of Germany's standard 380 kV tower forms.

Tongbai hydroelectric plant

The Tongbai hydroelectric plant, formally the Tongbai Pumped Storage Power Plant (桐柏抽水蓄能电站), is a 1,200 MW pumped-storage station in Tiantai County, Zhejiang, China, fully commissioned in 2006.

Tongchuan power station

Tongchuan power station, also called the Huaneng Tongchuan Zhaojin Power Plant, is a coal-fired power station in Tongchuan, Shaanxi, China, whose two 600 MW air-cooled units were commissioned in 2007.

Tonghua Xuangang power station

Tonghua Xuangang power station is a coal-fired pit-mouth power plant in Yuanping, Shanxi, China, with two 660 MW units commissioned in 2010 and an expansion approved in 2024.

Tongliao power station

Tongliao power station is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China, burning lignite and supplying the city's electricity and district heating.

Tongling Guodian power station

Tongling Guodian power station (国能铜陵电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Tongling, Anhui, China, operating since 2008 with two 600 MW units and two 1,000 MW units planned.

Tongling Wanneng power station

Tongling Wanneng power station (皖能铜陵发电厂) is a bituminous coal-fired power station of at least 2,320 MW in Tongling, Anhui, China, owned by Anhui Wenergy and serving the East China grid.

Tongyeong LNG Terminal

The Tongyeong LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas receiving and regasification terminal in Tongyeong, South Korea, opened by Korea Gas Corporation in September 2002 as its third LNG base.

Tongzi power station

Tongzi power station (桐梓电厂) is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Tongzi County, Guizhou Province, China, owned by China Huadian and fired with local anthracite.

Tongzilin Hydropower Station

Tongzilin Hydropower Station (桐子林水电站) is a 600 MW run-of-river hydropower station on the Yalong River in Yanbian County, Panzhihua, Sichuan, China, the final cascade of the lower Yalong, fully operational since 2016.

Too cheap to meter

"Too cheap to meter" is a 1954 prediction by Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss that nuclear power would make electricity metering pointless, now a famous example of overpromise.

Top Runner Program

The Top Runner Program is Japan's main regulatory program for improving the energy efficiency of products from air conditioners to trucks, designed in 1998 after the Kyoto Conference.