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CPS Energy
CPS Energy is the municipally owned electric and gas utility of San Antonio, Texas, serving roughly 950,000 electric customers since its 1942 purchase by the city.
CPV Three Rivers Energy Center
CPV Three Rivers Energy Center is a 1,250-megawatt natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Grundy County, Illinois, about 60 miles southwest of Chicago, opened in 2023.
CR Wujianfang power station
CR Wujianfang power station is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in West Ujimqin Banner, Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia, China, operating two 660 MW ultra-supercritical lignite units commissioned in 2019.
Craig Station
Craig Station, also called the Craig Generating Station, is a three-unit, coal-fired power plant near Craig, Colorado, operated by Tri-State and kept open past its planned 2025 retirement by federal emergency orders.
Crane Clean Energy Center
The Crane Clean Energy Center is the renamed Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, shut down in 2019 and being restarted for Microsoft.
Creole Trail Pipeline
The Creole Trail Pipeline is a 94-mile, 42-inch bidirectional natural gas pipeline in southwestern Louisiana, owned by Cheniere Energy Partners, that feeds the Sabine Pass LNG terminal since 2008.
Creos Luxembourg
Creos Luxembourg S.A., the former Cegedel, is the Luxembourg company that operates the country's electricity and natural gas networks as transmission and distribution operator, employing more than 940 people.
Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project
The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a 110 MW concentrating solar power plant near Tonopah, Nevada, the first full-scale molten-salt power tower built in the United States.
Crest factor
Crest factor is the ratio of a waveform's peak value to its RMS value, a measure of peakiness; a sine wave has a crest factor of 1.414.
Cricket Valley Energy Center
Cricket Valley Energy Center is a natural gas-fired power plant in Dover, New York, about 100 km from New York City, that began operating in 2020.
Crișana-Banat Oil and Gas Field
The Crișana-Banat Oil and Gas Field is an onshore conventional oil and gas asset in western Romania, operated by OMV Petrom, covering the historical Crișana and Banat producing regions.
Cristal Union
Cristal Union is a French agricultural cooperative founded in 2000, the second largest sugar beet cooperative in France, producing sugar, alcohol, and bioethanol from beets grown by its 9,000 members.
Cristur Gas Field
The Cristur Gas Field is an operating onshore natural gas field in Romania's Transylvanian Basin near Cristuru Secuiesc, producing biogenic methane from Miocene sandstones and operated by the state-owned Romgaz.
Critical power ratio
The critical power ratio (CPR) is a boiling water reactor safety parameter, defined as the ratio of a fuel bundle's critical power to its actual power.
Critical Raw Materials Act
The Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) is a 2024 European Union regulation that secures the supply of critical raw materials, setting 2030 benchmarks for EU extraction, processing, and recycling.
Criticality accident
A criticality accident, also called a criticality excursion, is an accidental release of energy from an unintentional fission chain reaction in fissile material, causing brief, intense radiation.
Cross Generating Station
Cross Generating Station is a coal-fired power plant in Cross, South Carolina, owned by Santee Cooper. Its four coal units total about 2,330 MW, making it the state's largest coal-fired station.
Cross Island Pipeline
The Cross Island Pipeline is a 56-inch, 76.5-kilometer onshore natural gas pipeline in Trinidad and Tobago, built by NGC and entering service in December 2005.
Cross-bonding
Cross-bonding is a sheath-bonding method for three-phase systems of single-core power cables in which the metallic sheaths are cross-connected between sections so induced voltages cancel, suppressing circulating currents and limiting sheath voltages.
Cross-flow turbine
The cross-flow turbine, also known as the Banki or Ossberger turbine, is an impulse turbine used mainly in small hydropower plants with low to medium heads.
Cross-State Air Pollution Rule
The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) is a 2011 EPA regulation limiting sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants in 28 eastern states.
Crossarm
A crossarm is a structural beam bolted near the top of a utility pole that supports conductors, insulators, and transformers on overhead distribution and transmission lines.
Crossing tower
A crossing tower is a transmission tower built at a wide obstacle such as a river, strait, or valley, where the line must span far farther than normal.
Crosstex Energy, L.P.
Crosstex Energy, L.P., renamed EnLink Midstream Partners, LP in 2014, was a publicly traded midstream partnership that gathered, processed, and marketed natural gas and NGLs.
CrownRock
CrownRock was a privately held Midland, Texas oil and gas partnership formed in 2007 by CrownQuest Operating and Lime Rock Partners to develop Permian Basin acreage.
Cruachan Power Station
Cruachan Power Station, known as the Hollow Mountain, is a 440 MW underground pumped storage hydroelectric plant at Loch Awe in Scotland, opened in 1965.
Cruas nuclear power plant
Cruas nuclear power plant (centrale nucléaire de Cruas-Meysse) is an EDF nuclear station in the Ardèche with four 900 MWe reactors commissioned in 1984 and 1985.
Crude distillation
Crude distillation is the first step of oil refining, heating crude oil in a furnace and splitting it by boiling point into fractions like naphtha, kerosene, and diesel.
Crudos Pesados Oil Pipeline
The Crudos Pesados Oil Pipeline, or Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados (OCP), is a 485 km heavy crude pipeline in Ecuador from the Amazon to the Pacific coast, built 2001–2003 and reverted to the state in 2024.
Cruz de Lorena Oil and Gas Field
Cruz de Lorena Oil and Gas Field is a Vaca Muerta shale field in Neuquén Province, Argentina, producing since 2013 and operated by Shell Argentina with Gas y Petróleo del Neuquén.