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White mineral oil
White mineral oil (liquid paraffin, food grade mineral oil, CAS 8012-95-1) is a highly refined, colorless mixture of saturated petroleum hydrocarbons used as a food additive, release agent, and pharmaceutical base, with viscosity-based grades and ADIs of 0.01–20 mg/kg bw per day.
White Rock Wind Farm
White Rock Wind Farm is a wind farm in the New England Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, near Glen Innes, whose operational Stage 1 produces 175 MW.
White Rose Field
White Rose Field is an offshore oil field in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, discovered in 1984, with first oil in November 2005.
Whitecap Resources
Whitecap Resources is a Calgary-based Canadian oil and natural gas producer operating in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia, ranked among Canada's largest after merging with Veren in May 2025.
Whitehaven Coal
Whitehaven Coal is an Australian coal mining company producing metallurgical and thermal coal, with six mines in New South Wales and Queensland and exports sold mainly to Asia.
Wholesale Electricity Market (Argentina)
The Wholesale Electricity Market (Mercado Eléctrico Mayorista, MEM) is Argentina's centralized market for bulk electricity, created by Law No. 24.065 of 1992 and operated by CAMMESA, which serves about 93% of national demand.
Wicket gate
A wicket gate is an adjustable guide vane arranged in a ring around a reaction hydraulic turbine, controlling water flow and swirl entering the runner.
Wide area measurement system
A wide area measurement system (WAMS) is a power-grid infrastructure that collects GPS time-synchronized measurements from across a large transmission network, complementing SCADA with a real-time system-wide view.
Wide-bandgap perovskite
A wide-bandgap perovskite is a metal-halide perovskite absorber with a bandgap of roughly 1.65 to 2.0 eV, serving as the high-voltage front cell in tandem solar cells.
Wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells
Wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells are photovoltaic devices based on mixed iodide-bromide perovskites with bandgaps above 1.7 eV, serving as the top subcells of perovskite/silicon tandems that have reached about 35% efficiency.
Widows Creek Fossil Plant
Widows Creek Fossil Plant was a Tennessee Valley Authority coal-fired power station near Stevenson, Alabama, with eight units totaling 1,800 megawatts, operated from 1952 to 2015.
Wien Energie
Wien Energie is Austria's largest regional energy provider, owned by the City of Vienna through Wiener Stadtwerke, supplying electricity, heat, and cooling to around two million people.
Wiener Stadtwerke
Wiener Stadtwerke (Vienna Municipal Works) is the City of Vienna's municipal infrastructure holding company, founded in 1949, overseeing Wien Energie, Wiener Netze, and Wiener Linien.
Wikinger Offshore Wind Farm
Wikinger is a 350 MW offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea northeast of Rügen, developed and operated by Spain's Iberdrola and inaugurated in 2018.
Wildcat Discovery Technologies
Wildcat Discovery Technologies is a San Diego battery materials company, founded in 2006 by Peter G. Schultz, that develops cobalt-free cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
Wildfire Fund (California, AB 1054)
The California Wildfire Fund is a roughly $21 billion state-created account, established by AB 1054 in 2019, that reimburses California's largest investor-owned utilities for wildfire damage claims.
Wildmere Oil and Gas Field
Wildmere is a designated heavy crude oil field in east central Alberta, about 200 kilometers southeast of Edmonton, known for waterflooding and an early electromagnetic heating trial.
Wilhelmshaven FSRU
The Wilhelmshaven FSRU is Germany's first LNG import terminal, a floating regasification unit moored off Wilhelmshaven, inaugurated by Chancellor Olaf Scholz in December 2022 to replace Russian gas supplies.
Will County Generating Station
The Will County Generating Station was a coal-fired power station in Romeoville, Will County, Illinois, operated by Midwest Generation and retired in stages between 2010 and 2022.
William A. Chittenden
William A. Chittenden (1927–2018) was an American power-plant engineer who spent his career at Sargent & Lundy in Chicago, retiring as its chief executive officer in 1991.
William C. Maurer
William C. Maurer is an American drilling engineer who founded Maurer Engineering in Houston, helped build the first PDC drill bit, and holds 38 patents.
William D. Stevens
William D. Stevens (1918–2007) was an American mechanical engineer and executive who retired as chairman of Foster Wheeler, a boiler maker, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1983.
William Henry Silcox
William Henry Silcox (1922–2015) was an American offshore drilling engineer who led Chevron's offshore technology development and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
William R. Gould
William Richard Gould (1919–2006) was an American mechanical engineer and utility executive who led Southern California Edison as chairman and CEO, pioneering renewable energy policy.
Williams Companies
The Williams Companies is a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based energy infrastructure company that gathers, processes, and transports natural gas, moving about a third of the gas consumed in the United States.
Willis S. White Jr.
Willis S. ("Pete") White Jr. (1926–2021) was an American electric utility executive who served as chairman and CEO of American Electric Power from 1976 to 1991.
Willow Rock Energy Storage Center
Willow Rock Energy Storage Center is a 500 MW, 4,000 MWh long-duration storage facility in Kern County, California, using Hydrostor's advanced compressed air energy storage technology.
Wilmington Oil Field
The Wilmington Oil Field is a giant oil field beneath Long Beach and San Pedro Bay, California, discovered in 1932 and the third-largest in the United States by cumulative production.
Wilpinjong Coal Mine
The Wilpinjong Coal Mine is an open-cut thermal coal mine near Wollar, New South Wales, owned by Peabody Energy. Opened in 2006, it supplies domestic power stations and export markets through Newcastle.
Winchester South Coal Mine
Winchester South Coal Mine is a proposed open-cut metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin near Moranbah, developed by Whitehaven Coal for up to 11 Mtpa of product coal.