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Wire interconnect
A wire interconnect is a photovoltaic module technology, commercialized as SmartWire Connection Technology (SWCT), that replaces flat solder-coated copper ribbons with thin round wires, cutting shading and silver use.
Wireless power transfer
Wireless power transfer, also called power beaming, transmits electrical energy without conductors using oscillating fields or beams, charging smartphones, electric vehicles, and biomedical implants; it has been pursued as a research goal since the mid-1800s.
Wisconsin Power and Light Company
Wisconsin Power and Light Company is a regulated electric and natural gas utility serving southern and central Wisconsin, serving about 500,000 electric customers as a subsidiary of Alliant Energy.
Wisconsin Public Service
Wisconsin Public Service (WPS) is a regulated utility providing electricity and natural gas to about 474,000 electric and 350,000 gas customers in northeast and central Wisconsin.
WiTricity
WiTricity is an American company co-founded in 2007 by MIT physicist Marin Soljačić that develops magnetic resonance wireless charging, letting parked electric vehicles charge from a ground pad without cables.
Wm. Howard Arnold
Wm. Howard Arnold, or William Howard Arnold Jr., was an American nuclear engineer who led the reactor physics design of Westinghouse's first commercial pressurized water reactors.
Wobbe index
The Wobbe index, also called the Wobbe number, measures the interchangeability of fuel gases by dividing heating value by the square root of specific gravity relative to air.
Wodgina mine
Wodgina is a hard-rock lithium mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region, about 100 km south of Port Hedland, operated by Mineral Resources with Albemarle in a 50/50 joint venture.
Woleebee Creek-Ross-Kathleen-Cam-Mamdal Gas Field
The Woleebee Creek-Ross-Kathleen-Cam-Mamdal gas field is a coal seam gas field in the Surat Basin, Queensland, Australia, operated by QGC and supplying Queensland Curtis LNG.
Wolf Creek Generating Station
Wolf Creek Generating Station is a nuclear power plant near Burlington, Kansas, operating a single Westinghouse pressurized water reactor, the only nuclear power reactor in Kansas.
Wolf Hollow II power station
Wolf Hollow II power station is a 1,231 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Hood County, Texas, about 45 miles southwest of Fort Worth, operating since June 2017.
Wolf Mountain Coal-Spring Creek Mine
The Wolf Mountain Coal-Spring Creek Mine is a surface coal mine near Decker, Montana, the state's largest, producing about 12 million tons of low-sulfur coal a year.
Wolsong Nuclear Power Plant
Wolsong Nuclear Power Plant (월성원자력) is a nuclear power station in Gyeongju, South Korea, with four Canadian CANDU reactors and two Korean Shin-Wolsong (신월성) reactors.
Wood fiber insulation
Wood fiber insulation is a bio-based building insulation made from processed wood fibers, sold as rigid boards, flexible batts, rolls, and blow-in material for insulating buildings.
Wood fuel
Wood fuel is wood or a wood-derived material used as an energy source, most often burned for cooking, heating, or electricity, and supplying about 7% of the world's energy.
Wood Group
Wood Group, also known as Wood or John Wood Group Plc, is a global consulting and engineering company headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, serving energy and materials clients.
Wood Mackenzie
Wood Mackenzie is a global research and data analytics company serving the energy, chemicals, metals and mining, and power and renewables industries, founded in Edinburgh in 1923.
Wood pellets
Wood pellets are a densified biomass fuel made by compressing dried sawdust into small uniform cylinders, burned in automatic heating systems and traded internationally as a commodity.
Wood River Refinery
The Wood River Refinery is a petroleum refinery in Roxana, Illinois, near St. Louis, that has processed crude oil since 1918 and today is one of Phillips 66's refineries.
Woodfibre LNG
Woodfibre LNG is a liquefied natural gas export facility under construction at a former pulp mill site near Squamish, British Columbia, expected to begin service in 2027.
Woods Cross refinery
The Woods Cross refinery is a petroleum refinery in Woods Cross, Utah, near Salt Lake City, owned by HF Sinclair with a capacity of 45,000 barrels per day.
Woodside Energy
Woodside Energy is an Australian petroleum exploration and production company headquartered in Perth, which established Australia's LNG industry and became the largest energy company on the ASX after merging with BHP's petroleum business in 2022.
Workover
A workover is a maintenance operation on a completed oil or gas well to restore or increase production, typically requiring the well to be killed.
World Association of Nuclear Operators
The World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) is a non-profit industry group uniting every commercial nuclear plant operator worldwide, founded in Moscow in 1989 after the Chernobyl accident.
World Bioenergy Association
The World Bioenergy Association is an international non-profit organization, founded in Sweden in 2008, that promotes sustainable bioenergy and represents the bioenergy sector in over 40 countries.
World Biogas Association
The World Biogas Association (WBA) is the international trade body for the biogas, landfill gas, and anaerobic digestion industries, launched at COP22 in Marrakesh in 2016 and based in London.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led network of over 250 companies, based in Geneva, working to make sustainability drive business success.
World Energy (company)
World Energy is an American low-carbon fuels company founded in Boston in 1998 and led by CEO Gene Gebolys, which describes itself as the world's first commercial-scale producer of sustainable aviation fuel.
World Energy Council
The World Energy Council is an independent, non-governmental global energy network founded in 1923 by Daniel Nicol Dunlop, with a secretariat in London and members in nearly 100 countries.
World Energy Outlook
The World Energy Outlook (WEO) is the International Energy Agency's annual flagship publication, first published in 1994, presenting long-term projections of global energy demand, supply, investment, and emissions under alternative scenarios.