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Charging station

A charging station, also called a charging point, is a fixed installation that delivers AC or DC power to an electric vehicle for battery charging.

Charles E. Till

Charles E. Till, also known as Charles Edgar Till, was a Canadian-born nuclear engineer at Argonne National Laboratory who created the Integral Fast Reactor and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Charles Fritts

Charles Fritts (Charles Edgar Fritts) was an American inventor from New York who built the first solid-state solar cells in 1883 using selenium films coated with gold.

Charles S. Matthews

Charles S. Matthews was an American chemical engineer and reservoir engineer who spent over 40 years at Shell Oil and co-authored SPE's first monograph, Pressure Build-Up and Flow Tests in Wells (1967).

Charles W. Pryor Jr.

Charles W. Pryor Jr. is an American nuclear-energy executive and structural engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003, who led B&W Nuclear Technologies, Westinghouse, and Urenco Investments.

Chashma nuclear power plant

The Chashma nuclear power plant is a nuclear plant in Mianwali District, Punjab, Pakistan, with four Chinese-designed pressurized water reactors totaling 1,330 MWe and a fifth unit under construction.

Chatti Bariatu Coal Mine

The Chatti Bariatu Coal Mine is a 7 MTPA opencast coal mine in the North Karanpura coalfield, Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, India, owned by NTPC Mining Limited.

Chayandinskoye Oil and Gas Asset

Chayandinskoye field (Чаяндинское) is a Gazprom-operated oil, gas, and condensate field in Yakutia, Russia, the main resource base for the Power of Siberia pipeline to China.

Chayvo-De-Kastri Oil Pipeline

The Chayvo-De-Kastri Oil Pipeline is a 225-kilometer, 24-inch crude oil export pipeline of the Sakhalin-1 project, carrying oil from Sakhalin Island to the De-Kastri terminal, commissioned in 2006.

Cheboksary Hydroelectric Station

The Cheboksary Hydroelectric Station (Чебоксарская ГЭС) is a 1,370 MW hydroelectric dam at Novocheboksarysk on the Volga River in Chuvashia, Russia, the last step of the Volga cascade.

Cheiron Petroleum Corp

Cheiron Petroleum Corp is a privately held Egyptian independent oil and gas company, formerly PICO International Petroleum, that revitalizes mature fields in Egypt, Mexico, and Romania.

Chelyabinsk-Petrovsk Gas Pipeline

Owned by Gazprom, the Chelyabinsk-Petrovsk Gas Pipeline (Газопровод) is a Russian trunk line that transports gas from Chelyabinsk to Petrovsk, serving central Russia and Eastern Europe.

Chemical looping partial oxidation

Chemical looping partial oxidation (CLPO) is a fuel-conversion process in which a metal oxide oxygen carrier partially oxidizes methane or biomass into synthesis gas, then regenerates with air in a separate step.

Chemical looping reforming

Chemical looping reforming (CLR) is a process that converts methane or other fuels into synthesis gas using a circulating metal oxide oxygen carrier, enabling inherent CO2 capture.

Chengdao Oil Field

Chengdao Oil Field (埕岛) is an offshore oil field in the extra-shallow waters of southern Bohai Bay, Shandong, China, operated by Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield and discovered in 1988.

Chengdu Jintang power station

Chengdu Jintang power station (成都金堂电厂) is a coal-fired power plant about 40 km northeast of Chengdu, China, with two 600 MW units commissioned in 2007.

Chengdu Yiwei Lithium (成都亿纬锂能)

Chengdu Yiwei Lithium (成都亿纬锂能) is a wholly owned solid-state battery subsidiary of EVE Energy, registered in Chengdu in April 2022 as China's only all-solid-state battery mass-production pilot base.

Chengzhuang Coal Mine

Chengzhuang Coal Mine (成庄煤矿) is a large underground anthracite coal mine in Zezhou County, Jincheng, Shanxi, China, producing 8 million tonnes per year since 2020.

Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P.

Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. is a publicly traded Delaware master limited partnership, formed by Cheniere Energy, that owns the Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

Chentangzhuang power station

Chentangzhuang power station is a gas-fired combined heat and power plant of at least 1,800 MW in Xiqing District, Tianjin, China, with its first two sets commissioned in 2014 and 2016.

Chepaizi Oil Field

The Chepaizi Oil Field (车排子油田) is an oil field in Xinjiang, China, at the southern end of the Junggar Basin's northwestern margin, producing since 2005.

Chepetsk Mechanical Plant

The Chepetsk Mechanical Plant (Чепецкий механический завод, ChMZ) is a Russian metallurgical plant in Glazov, Udmurt Republic, founded in 1946 and the only Russian manufacturer of zirconium products.

Cherepetskaya power station

Cherepetskaya power station (Cherepetskaya GRES, Черепетская ГРЭС) is a coal-fired power station in Suvorov, Tula Oblast, Russia, commissioned in 1953 with a current capacity of 450 MW.

Chernigovets Coal Mine

Chernigovets Coal Mine, also known as Chernigovskiy, is a surface coal mine in Berezovsky, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, operating since 1965 in the Kuznetsk Coal Basin.

Chernobyl disaster

The Chernobyl disaster, also called the Chornobyl accident, destroyed a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine in 1986, causing the worst nuclear accident in history.

Chernobyl exclusion zone

The Chernobyl exclusion zone (Ukrainian: зона відчуження) is the restricted territory around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, evacuated after the 1986 reactor accident.

Chernobyl New Safe Confinement

The Chernobyl New Safe Confinement (NSC) is a giant steel arch enclosing the sarcophagus over Chernobyl's destroyed Reactor 4, handed over to Ukraine in 2019.

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (Чернобыльская атомная электростанция)

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (Чернобыльская атомная электростанция) was a Soviet and later Ukrainian nuclear power plant whose Unit 4 was destroyed in the 1986 accident, the worst in history.

Chernobyl Reactors 5 and 6

Chernobyl Reactors 5 and 6 were two RBMK-1000 units of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, under construction when Unit 4 exploded in 1986 and canceled by 1989.

Chernogorsky Coal Mine

The Chernogorsky Coal Mine (Разрез «Черногорский») is an open-pit coal mine near Chernogorsk in Khakassia, Russia, operated by SUEK and mining energy coal since 1956.