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Topaz Energy (company)

Topaz Energy Corp. is a Calgary-based Canadian oil and gas royalty and infrastructure company spun out of Tourmaline Oil in 2019 and listed on the TSX in 2020.

Topaz Solar Farm

Topaz Solar Farm is a 550-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant on the Carrizo Plain in California, owned by Berkshire Hathaway Energy and selling power to PG&E.

Topeka (ferry)

Topeka was the concept name of a planned Norwegian zero-emission RoRo cargo ship powered by liquid hydrogen under Wilhelmsen's EU-funded HySHIP project, designed for a Stavanger–Kristiansund route before the newbuild was canceled.

Topolobampo II power station

Topolobampo II power station, also called the Central de Ciclo Combinado Noroeste, is a 917 MW gas-fired combined cycle plant in Sinaloa, Mexico, opened in 2019.

Topsoe

Topsoe, formerly Haldor Topsøe A/S, is a Danish engineering company founded in 1940 that develops catalysts and process technologies for the chemical, refining, and energy-transition industries.

Tor Oil and Gas Field

Tor is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea near Ekofisk, discovered in 1970, and the first shut-in Norwegian field to restart production, in 2020.

Tordis Oil and Gas Field

Tordis is an oil field in the Tampen area of the northern North Sea, discovered in 1987 and producing since 1994 as a subsea tieback to Gullfaks C, operated by Equinor.

Tore Supra

Tore Supra was a French superconducting tokamak at the CEA Cadarache laboratory, producing first plasma in 1988 as the first tokamak with superconducting magnets and actively cooled components, later converted into WEST in 2013.

Torness nuclear power plant

Torness nuclear power station is a twin-reactor power station near Dunbar in East Lothian, Scotland, operated by EDF Energy since 1988 and now Scotland's last operating nuclear plant.

Tornio Manga LNG Terminal

The Tornio Manga LNG Terminal is an LNG import terminal in Tornio, Finland, delivered by Wärtsilä and the largest LNG and biogas terminal in the Nordic countries.

Toroidal transformer

A toroidal transformer is a mains or signal transformer wound on a doughnut-shaped steel core with no air gap, giving 95–98% efficiency and low hum in audio and medical equipment.

Toronto Hydro

Toronto Hydro is the municipal electricity distributor for Toronto, Ontario, delivering power to more than 3 million residents and businesses. Founded in 1911, it is Canada's largest municipal electricity distribution company.

Torosa gas field

Torosa is a gas and condensate field in the Browse Basin, about 425 km north of Broome, Western Australia, discovered in 1971 and still undeveloped.

Torrefaction

Torrefaction is a thermal pretreatment that heats biomass to 200–300 °C in an oxygen-free atmosphere, producing a coal-like fuel called biocoal for co-firing and gasification.

Torrefied biomass

Torrefied biomass, or bio-coal, is a solid biofuel made by heating wood or agricultural residue to 200–300 °C in an inert atmosphere so it burns like coal.

Torrent Power

Torrent Power is an Indian private-sector integrated power utility of the Torrent Group, serving over 4.31 million customers across 12 cities with 6,494 MW of generation capacity.

Torrevaldaliga Nord power station

The Torrevaldaliga Nord power station is a coal-fired power plant at Civitavecchia near Rome, Italy, operated by Enel with three 660 MW units totaling 1,980 MW.

Torrey Canyon

Torrey Canyon was a Liberian-flagged supertanker that ran aground off Land's End, England, in 1967, spilling some 119,000 tonnes of crude oil and prompting the international oil spill liability framework.

Tortkuduk and Muyunkuduk Mines

The Tortkuduk and Muyunkum (Moinkum) mines are adjacent uranium operations in southern Kazakhstan worked by in-situ recovery and operated by KATCO, a Kazakh-French joint venture created in 1996.

Torzhok-Minsk-Ivatsevichy Gas Pipeline

The Torzhok-Minsk-Ivatsevichy gas pipeline (Russian: Газопровод "Торжок-Минск-Ивацевичи") is a natural gas pipeline from Torzhok in Russia through Minsk to Ivatsevichy in Belarus, built from 1971.

Torzhok-Smolensk-Mazyr-Dolyna Gas Pipeline

The Torzhok-Smolensk-Mazyr-Dolyna Gas Pipeline is a 1,300 km natural gas pipeline running from Torzhok in Russia through Mazyr in Belarus to Dolyna in Ukraine, in operation since 1994.

Toscana FSRU

The Toscana FSRU is a floating LNG regasification terminal moored off the Italian coast between Livorno and Pisa, covering about 8 percent of Italian gas demand.

TotalEnergies

TotalEnergies SE, formerly Total, TotalFinaElf, and Compagnie Française des Pétroles, is a French integrated energy company founded in 1924, headquartered at La Défense near Paris.

Totea Deep Gas Field

Totea Deep is an onshore natural gas field in Gorj County, southwestern Romania, discovered in 2011 and operated by OMV Petrom, with proven reserves of 4.7 billion cubic meters.

Touch and step voltage

Touch and step voltage are the shock quantities used to judge whether a grounding system protects people during an earth fault, with limits set by IEEE Std 80 and IEC 60479-1.

Tourmaline Oil Corp.

Tourmaline Oil Corp. is a Calgary-based Canadian oil and gas company founded in 2008 by Michael Rose and identifying itself as Canada's largest natural gas producer.

Towards Sustainable Mining

Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) is a sustainability standard operated by the Mining Association of Canada since 2004, requiring member companies to measure, report, and verify their environmental and social performance.

Tower earthing

Tower earthing, also called tower grounding, is the system of electrodes and buried conductors that bonds a transmission tower to the earth so lightning current is safely dissipated.

Tower erection

Tower erection is the stage of overhead transmission line construction in which tower steel is assembled and raised on its foundations, using piecemeal, gin pole, crane, or helicopter methods.

Tower foundation

A tower foundation is the buried structure that anchors a transmission tower to the ground, designed mainly for uplift, and accounting for 15% to 35% of an overhead line's cost.