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Frade Oil and Gas Field

The Frade Oil and Gas Field is a deepwater oil field in Brazil's Campos Basin, discovered by Petrobras in 1986 and operated since 2020 by PRIO.

Fram Oil and Gas Field

Fram is an oil and gas field in the northern Norwegian North Sea, 20 km north of Troll, discovered in 1990 and producing since 2003, operated by Equinor.

Framatome

Framatome is a French nuclear energy company owned by EDF (80.5%) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, supplying reactor equipment, fuel assemblies, and services to more than 250 reactors worldwide.

Francis turbine

The Francis turbine, a mixed-flow reaction water turbine invented by James B. Francis in 1849, is the most commonly used turbine type in hydropower generation worldwide.

Francisco Morazan hydroelectric plant

The Francisco Morazan hydroelectric plant, known as El Cajón, is a 300 MW hydroelectric plant in central Honduras, completed in 1985 around a 226-meter arch dam.

FranklinWH

FranklinWH, formally FranklinWH Energy Storage Inc., is an American residential energy storage company founded in 2019 in San Jose, California, known for its whole-home battery system.

Franpipe Gas Pipeline

Franpipe is an 840-kilometer natural gas pipeline running from the Draupner E platform in the North Sea to Dunkerque in northern France, opened in 1998.

FRAPCON

FRAPCON is a computer code developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to calculate steady-state thermal-mechanical behavior of light-water reactor fuel rods.

Fred C. Koch

Fred C. Koch was an American chemical engineer who developed an improved oil cracking process, built refineries in the Soviet Union, and cofounded Koch Industries' predecessor in 1940.

Frederick J. Ellert

Frederick J. Ellert was an American electrical engineer at General Electric who led the development of high-voltage direct current transmission and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.

Freedom Fuel

Freedom Fuel, also known as Freedom Fuel Network, is a chain of discount gas stations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey that sold gasoline at $3.47 per gallon in July 2026.

Freeport LNG Terminal

Freeport LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas export terminal on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas, converting from imports in 2008 to LNG exports beginning in 2019.

Freestone energy center

The Freestone Energy Center is a 1,099 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Freestone County near Fairfield, Texas, built by Calpine and placed in service in 2002.

FreeWire Technologies

FreeWire Technologies, founded in 2014 by Arcady Sosinov, was a Newark, California maker of battery-integrated DC fast chargers for electric-vehicle fleets and retail sites that ceased operations in 2024.

Frequency stability

Frequency stability is a power system's ability to maintain steady frequency after a severe generation-load imbalance, like losing a large generator, and restore it to nominal value.

FREYR Battery

FREYR Battery is a battery cell developer founded in Norway in 2018 to produce cells at Mo i Rana; it raised about $1 billion and rebranded as T1 Energy in 2025.

Frigg UK Gas Pipeline

The Frigg UK Gas Pipeline is a 361-kilometer subsea gas pipeline from the Frigg field in the North Sea to St Fergus, Scotland, in service since 1977.

Frimmersdorf power station

Frimmersdorf power station (Kraftwerk Frimmersdorf) was a lignite-fired power station in Grevenbroich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, for a time the largest power plant in the world.

Front-of-the-meter

Front-of-the-meter (FTM) is an energy asset, most often a battery storage system, connected on the utility side of the customer's meter so it sells into wholesale markets rather than serving one customer.

Frontera Energy

Frontera Energy is a Canadian energy infrastructure company in Colombia, holding stakes in the ODL crude pipeline and the Puerto Bahía port terminal in Cartagena.

Frye Solar

Frye Solar is a 637 MW utility-scale solar photovoltaic plant near Kress in Swisher County, Texas, built by Hecate Energy and completed by Repsol in April 2024.

Fryslân wind farm

Fryslân wind farm, or Windpark Fryslân, is a 382.7 MW nearshore wind farm of 89 turbines in the IJsselmeer, Netherlands, the largest built on an inland water, operational since 2021.

FTAI Energy Partners LLC

FTAI Energy Partners LLC is a Delaware holding company that held FTAI's stake in the Jefferson Terminal crude oil logistics complex at the Port of Beaumont, Texas.

FTU (tokamak)

FTU, or Frascati Tokamak Upgrade, was a compact, high-magnetic-field tokamak fusion experiment operated by ENEA at Frascati near Rome, with first plasma in 1990 and shutdown in 2019.

Fu County power station

Fu County power station, also known as the Yanchang Petroleum Fuxian power plant, is a coal-fired station in Fu County, Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, with two 1,000 MW units operating since 2023.

Fuel

A fuel is a material whose stored chemical energy is released as heat by combustion, powering buildings, electricity generation, and nearly all transport; examples include gasoline, natural gas, coal, biofuels, and hydrogen.

Fuel assembly

A fuel assembly is the bundle of sealed fuel rods, spacer grids, and guide tubes that forms the basic replaceable unit of fuel in a nuclear reactor core.

Fuel cell

A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts fuel, typically hydrogen, directly into electricity, producing water and heat; unlike a battery, it works as long as fuel is supplied.

Fuel cell cold start

Fuel cell cold start is the startup of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell from subfreezing temperatures, where product water can freeze inside the cell and block its operation.

Fuel cell range extender

A fuel cell range extender is a small hydrogen fuel cell, typically 30 to 80 kW, added to a battery-electric vehicle to recharge its battery and extend its driving range.