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Carbon paper

Carbon paper, in electrochemical engineering, is a porous sheet of bonded carbon fibers serving as the gas diffusion layer in fuel cells, water electrolyzers, and related devices.

Carbon pricing

Carbon pricing is the practice of putting an explicit price on greenhouse gas emissions per ton of CO2 equivalent, most commonly through carbon taxes and emissions trading systems, covering 29% of global emissions as of 2026.

Carbon2Chem

Carbon2Chem is a German cross-industry research project, launched in 2016 and led by thyssenkrupp and Fraunhofer, that turns steel mill exhaust gases into methanol and ammonia.

Carburetor

A carburetor, also called a carburetter, is a mechanical device that mixes gasoline with air for internal-combustion engines, standard on automobiles until fuel injection displaced it in the late 1980s.

Cardinal Plant

The Cardinal Plant, formally Cardinal Power Plant, is a coal-fired power station with three units totaling about 1,800 megawatts on the Ohio River in Brilliant, Ohio.

Cardón gas project

The Cardón gas project is an offshore natural gas development in the Gulf of Venezuela, operated by Repsol and Eni and centered on the Perla field, discovered in 2009.

Cardón IV

Cardón IV is a natural gas block in the Gulf of Venezuela holding the Perla field, Latin America's largest offshore gas field, operated by Repsol and Eni.

CAREM

CAREM (Central Argentina de Elementos Modulares) is an Argentine integral pressurized water reactor of about 32 MWe, designed by CNEA with INVAP, now suspended at the Atucha complex.

Caribbean Utilities

Caribbean Utilities (CUC) is the sole electric utility of Grand Cayman, serving about 35,000 customers since 1966 and owned roughly 60% by Canada's Fortis Inc.

Carina-Fenix-Orion-Orion Norte-Orion Oeste Oil and Gas Field

Carina-Fenix-Orion-Orion Norte-Orion Oeste is a grouped offshore oil and gas field in the CMA-1 concession, about 30 to 80 km off Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, operated by TotalEnergies.

Carlos Ramírez Ulloa hydroelectric plant

The Carlos Ramírez Ulloa hydroelectric plant, known as El Caracol, is a 600 MW hydroelectric plant on the Balsas River in Guerrero, Mexico, opened in 1986.

Carmichael coal mine

The Carmichael coal mine is a thermal coal mine in the Galilee Basin of central Queensland, Australia, owned by Adani's Bravus Mining, where mining began in 2020.

Carmópolis Oil and Gas Field

Carmópolis is an onshore oil and gas field in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin in Sergipe, Brazil, discovered by Petrobras in 1963 and sold to Carmo Energy in 2022 for $1.1 billion.

Carmópolis-Pilar Gas Pipeline

The Carmópolis-Pilar Gas Pipeline (Gasoduto Carmópolis-Pilar) is a natural gas pipeline in northeastern Brazil, running about 177 kilometers from Sergipe to Alagoas and operated by TAG.

Caroline Oil and Gas Field

The Caroline Oil and Gas Field is a sour gas and condensate field in southwest Alberta, Canada, discovered by Shell Canada in 1986 with about 35% hydrogen sulfide gas.

Carrapatelo Dam

The Carrapatelo Dam (Barragem do Carrapatelo) is a 57 m concrete gravity dam on Portugal's Douro River, completed in 1972 with a 201 MW hydroelectric power station.

Carrier selective contact

A carrier selective contact is a solar cell layer that passes one charge carrier type and blocks the other, used in high-efficiency silicon, perovskite, and III-V cells.

Cartagena FSRU (Colombia)

The Cartagena FSRU is Colombia's only liquefied natural gas import and regasification terminal, built around the chartered vessel Höegh Grace and operating in the bay of Cartagena since December 2016.

Cartagena LNG Terminal (Spain)

The Cartagena LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas storage and regasification plant owned and operated by Enagás at the Escombreras dock of the Port of Cartagena, Spain, opened in 1989.

Cartagena refinery

The Cartagena refinery is Repsol's largest industrial complex in Spain, a petroleum refining and petrochemical site in the Escombreras valley near Cartagena, Murcia, operating since 1950.

Carter Doctrine

The Carter Doctrine is a 1980 U.S. policy declaration by President Jimmy Carter that any outside attempt to control the Persian Gulf would be repelled by military force.

Caruachi Dam

The Caruachi Dam is a 2,160 MW hydroelectric dam on the lower Caroní River in Bolívar state, Venezuela, inaugurated in 2006 as Francisco de Miranda.

Casa dos Ventos

Casa dos Ventos is a Brazilian renewable energy company founded in 2007 that develops and operates wind and solar projects, with the largest renewables portfolio in Brazil.

Casa Pueblo

Casa Pueblo is a community organization founded in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, in 1980 to oppose mining, which stopped the project and now builds community-owned solar microgrids.

Casa Verde (Romanian programme)

Casa Verde, Romanian for Green House, is a Romanian state program offering non-reimbursable grants to homeowners for renewable energy installations, launched in July 2010 and administered by AFM.

Casabe Oil and Gas Field

Casabe is a mature crude oil field in Yondó, Antioquia, Colombia, discovered by Shell in 1941, once among Colombia's most productive fields, and operated by Ecopetrol since 1975.

Casale (company)

Casale is a Swiss chemical engineering and technology licensing group headquartered in Lugano, founded in 1921 by Luigi Casale to license his rival ammonia synthesis process, and known for its axial-radial converter.

Cascaded H-bridge converter

The cascaded H-bridge (CHB) converter is a multilevel power converter that synthesizes a medium-voltage AC output from series-connected H-bridge cells, used mainly in motor drives, STATCOMs, and large solar plants.

Cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter

A cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter is a power electronic converter introduced in 1975 as the first multilevel inverter topology, connecting H-bridge cells in series and widely used in drives, transmission, and renewable energy.

Cascading failure (power system)

A cascading failure in a power system is the uncontrolled successive loss of equipment such as transmission lines or generators, where each failure overloads others until the outage stops or becomes a widespread blackout.