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E.ON

E.ON is a German energy company based in Essen that operates electricity and gas distribution networks and sells energy across Europe with about 47 million customers.

E110 alloy

E110 alloy is a binary zirconium-1% niobium alloy developed in the Soviet Union and used for fuel rod cladding, spacer grids, and guide tubes in VVER and RBMK reactors.

E85

E85, also called flex fuel, is an ethanol-gasoline blend containing 51% to 83% ethanol that can be used only in flexible fuel vehicles, sold at over 4,200 US stations.

Eagle Butte Coal Mine

The Eagle Butte Coal Mine is a surface coal mine about 8 miles north of Gillette, Wyoming, producing subbituminous thermal coal since 1978 under Eagle Specialty Materials.

Eagle Downs Coal Project

The Eagle Downs Coal Project is an undeveloped underground longwall coal mine 20 km south-east of Moranbah in Queensland's Bowen Basin, designed to produce export metallurgical coal.

Eagle Ford

The Eagle Ford is a Late Cretaceous shale formation in South Texas, developed since 2008 as one of the largest United States tight oil and shale gas plays.

Eagle Mountain Pipeline Project

The Eagle Mountain Pipeline Project, formally the Eagle Mountain–Woodfibre Gas Pipeline Project, is a 47.7 km expansion of FortisBC's natural gas system in British Columbia to supply Woodfibre LNG.

EaglePicher Technologies

EaglePicher Technologies is an American battery manufacturer headquartered in Joplin, Missouri, the leading U.S. producer of thermal batteries for missiles and munitions, with batteries flown on spacecraft since Explorer 1 in 1958.

Earth potential rise

Earth potential rise (EPR), also called ground potential rise, is the voltage an earthing system, such as a substation ground grid, attains relative to remote earth during a fault.

Earth tube

An earth tube, or earth-to-air heat exchanger (EAHE), is a buried pipe through which outdoor air is preheated in winter and precooled in summer by the surrounding soil.

Earthing switch

An earthing switch is a mechanical switching device that connects de-energized circuits or high-voltage equipment to earth potential, protecting personnel during maintenance; it is standard in substations and governed by IEC 62271-102.

Earthing system

An earthing system, also known as a grounding system, is the set of conductors and electrodes connecting an electrical installation to earth, ensuring safe fault clearance.

East African Crude Oil Pipeline

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is a 1,443 km heated pipeline carrying crude from Uganda's Lake Albert oilfields to a terminal near Tanga, Tanzania.

East Baghdad Oil Field

The East Baghdad Oil Field is a giant onshore oil field about 10 kilometers east of Baghdad, Iraq, discovered in 1974 with roughly 8 billion barrels of proven reserves.

East Hope Metals Wucaiwan power station

East Hope Metals Wucaiwan power station is a captive coal-fired power station in Jimsar County, Xinjiang, China, supplying power and steam to East Hope's aluminum smelter since 2013.

East Java Gas Pipeline

The East Java Gas Pipeline (EJGP) is a natural gas pipeline in Indonesia, running from the Kangean Islands through the Madura Strait to Surabaya, operated by Pertamina Gas.

East Kentucky Power Cooperative

East Kentucky Power Cooperative is a not-for-profit electric utility in Winchester, Kentucky, that generates wholesale power for 16 member cooperatives serving over 1.2 million Kentuckians.

East Kutai Coal Mine

The East Kutai Coal Project is a proposed thermal coal mine in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, whose licenses were revoked in 2010 and no coal was ever mined.

East River Generating Station

East River Generating Station is a Con Edison cogeneration plant on the East River at 14th Street in Manhattan, producing electricity and steam and repowered with gas turbines in 2005.

East Tennessee Natural Gas

East Tennessee Natural Gas (ETNG) is an interstate natural gas pipeline system owned and operated by Enbridge, running 1,526 miles across Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia.

East Texas Oil Field

The East Texas Oil Field, discovered by the Daisy Bradford No. 3 well in 1930, is the largest oil reservoir in the contiguous United States, producing nearly 5.2 billion barrels from northeast Texas.

East West Gas Pipeline (India)

The East West Gas Pipeline is a 1,375 km natural gas pipeline from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to Bharuch in Gujarat, and the first pipeline in India to use 48-inch pipe.

East-West Gas Pipeline (Turkmenistan)

The East-West gas pipeline (Turkmen: Gündogar-Günbatar) is a 773-kilometer natural gas pipeline in Turkmenistan, running from the Shatlyk compressor station to Belek on the Caspian side, opened in December 2015.

East-West Tie Limited Partnership

East-West Tie Limited Partnership is an Ontario limited partnership that owns the East-West Tie Line, a 450-kilometer, 230-kilovolt transmission line between Wawa and Thunder Bay, completed in 2022.

East–West Crude Oil Pipeline

The East–West Crude Oil Pipeline, commercially known as Petroline, is a 1,200-kilometer Saudi Arabian pipeline from Abqaiq to Yanbu, allowing crude exports to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

Eastern Coalfields

Eastern Coalfields Limited is an Indian coal-mining company, a wholly owned Coal India subsidiary set up in 1975, headquartered at Sanctoria, West Bengal, operating mines in West Bengal and Jharkhand.

Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage System (EGTS)

Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage System (EGTS) is an interstate natural gas transmission and storage company, operating nearly 4,000 miles of pipeline and one of the largest underground storage systems in the United States.

Eastern Interconnection

The Eastern Interconnection is the North American power grid covering everything east of the Rocky Mountains except most of Texas and Quebec, running at a synchronized 60 Hz.

Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean Oil Pipeline

The Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean (ESPO; Russian: ВСТО) pipeline connects Siberian oil fields to the Pacific port of Kozmino, with ESPO-1 completed in 2009 and ESPO-2 in 2012.

Eastlake Power Plant

The Eastlake Power Plant was a coal-fired power plant in Eastlake, Ohio, owned by FirstEnergy, whose Unit 5 trip helped trigger the 2003 North American blackout.