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West Riverside Energy Center
West Riverside Energy Center is a 730-megawatt combined-cycle natural gas power plant near Beloit, Wisconsin, operated by Wisconsin Power and Light and in service since May 2020.
West Shore Pipe Line
West Shore Pipe Line is a refined petroleum products pipeline from the Chicago area through Illinois into Wisconsin, serving Milwaukee and Madison and once Green Bay.
West Tuna Oil and Gas Field
West Tuna is an oil and gas field in the Gippsland Basin of Bass Strait, off Victoria, Australia, now producing natural gas from the West Tuna platform.
West Valley Demonstration Project
The West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) is a Department of Energy cleanup at the site of America's only commercial spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, in West Valley, New York.
West White Rose
West White Rose is an offshore oil development in the White Rose field on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and Labrador, operated by Cenovus Energy.
West Wind (wind farm)
West Wind is a wind farm of 62 turbines on the Mākara and Terawhiti hills west of Wellington, New Zealand, owned by Meridian Energy and fully operational since October 2009.
West–East Gas Pipeline
The West–East Gas Pipeline (西气东输) is a system of natural gas pipelines carrying gas from western China's Tarim Basin and Central Asia to eastern markets including Shanghai.
Western Canada Select
Western Canada Select (WCS) is a heavy, sour crude oil blend produced in western Canada and the benchmark price for Canadian heavy crude, created in 2004 at Hardisty, Alberta.
Western Canadian Select
Western Canadian Select (WCS) is a blended heavy sour crude oil stream created in 2004 that serves as the benchmark price for Canadian heavy oil, priced at Hardisty, Alberta.
Western Coalfields
Western Coalfields Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Coal India that mines coal in Maharashtra and southwestern Madhya Pradesh from its Nagpur headquarters, established in 1975.
Western Crude Oil Pipeline
The Western Crude Oil Pipeline (西部原油管道) is a crude oil pipeline from Ürümqi in Xinjiang to Lanzhou in Gansu, commissioned in 2007 and once China's longest crude pipeline.
Western Electricity Coordinating Council
The Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) is a nonprofit Regional Entity, approved by FERC, that develops and enforces reliability standards across the Western Interconnection of western North America.
Western Energy Imbalance Market
The Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM) is a real-time wholesale electricity market operated by the California ISO, launched in 2014 and covering about 80 percent of western demand.
Western Interconnection
The Western Interconnection is one of the three major AC power grids of North America, serving more than 90 million people across the western United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Western Midstream Partners
Western Midstream Partners is a Delaware master limited partnership, headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, that gathers and processes natural gas and oil across the western United States.
Western Midstream Partners, LP
Western Midstream Partners, LP is a Delaware master limited partnership operating natural gas, crude oil, and produced-water midstream assets in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.
Westinghouse 2-loop PWR
The Westinghouse 2-loop PWR is the smallest of Westinghouse's commercial pressurized water reactors, rated near 500 MWe, with US plants including Ginna, Point Beach, and Prairie Island.
Westinghouse 3-loop PWR
The Westinghouse 3-loop PWR is a pressurized water reactor design from Westinghouse rated around 900 to 1,000 MWe, with three coolant loops, each with a steam generator and pump.
Westinghouse 4-loop PWR
The Westinghouse 4-loop PWR is a pressurized water reactor design with four identical coolant loops sharing one pressurizer, generating about 1,100 to 1,300 MWe per unit.
Westinghouse Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric Company, known as Westinghouse Nuclear, is an American nuclear company founded in 1886 that supplied the first commercial pressurized water reactor in 1957.
Westmoreland Mining
Westmoreland Mining is a privately held American coal mining company, created in 2019 by the bankrupt Westmoreland Coal Company's former creditors, operating mines in the United States and Canada.
Weston Power Plant
The Weston Power Plant is a coal-fired power plant on the Wisconsin River near Wausau, Wisconsin, owned by Wisconsin Public Service, with coal combustion planned to end by 2034.
Wet bottom boiler
A wet bottom boiler, also called a slag tap furnace, is a coal-fired furnace that removes ash as molten slag rather than dry ash, mainly for low-ash-fusion coals.
Wet limestone scrubbing
Wet limestone scrubbing is a flue gas desulfurization process that removes sulfur dioxide from coal-fired power plant exhaust with a limestone slurry, producing gypsum. It is the most widely used desulfurization method.
Weyburn Midale Oil Pool
The Weyburn Midale Oil Pool is a pair of large adjacent oil fields in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada, discovered in 1953 and 1954 in Mississippian carbonate rocks.
Whale oil
Whale oil, historically called train oil, is oil rendered from whale blubber, long used for lamps, candles, and lubricants until commercial whaling was curtailed in the 1980s.
Wheatstone LNG Terminal
The Wheatstone LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas export facility near Onslow in Western Australia, operated by Chevron Australia, with first LNG shipped in October 2017.
Whistler Pipeline
The Whistler Pipeline is a 450-mile, 42-inch natural gas pipeline in Texas moving Permian Basin gas to Agua Dulce, in full service since July 2021.
White Bluff Generating Plant
White Bluff Generating Plant is a coal-fired power station near Redfield, Arkansas, operated by Entergy Arkansas, the first built in the state, required to stop burning coal by 2028.
White Mesa Mill
The White Mesa Mill, owned by Energy Fuels near Blanding, Utah, is the only fully licensed and operating conventional uranium mill in the United States, producing yellowcake since 1980.