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TEEIC - Energy affairs Category: Earth and Environment > Energy terms Date & country: 28/02/2017, UK Words: 518

ARPA
Archaeological Resources Protection Act.

Attenuator
A wave energy capture device with principal axis oriented parallel to the direction of the incoming wave that converts the energy due to the relative motion of the parts of the device as the wave passes along it.

API
American Petroleum Institute.

Alternating current
(AC) An electric current that reverses its direction at regularly recurring intervals.

Anaerobic digestion
Degradation of organic matter by microbes in the absence of oxygen to produce methane and carbon dioxide.

Ancillary facilities
Facilities other than principal components that are often required in an energy development, such as compressor stations, electrical substations, or storage facilities.

Anthropogenic
Human-made; produced as a result of human activities.

AIRFA
American Indian Religious Freedom Act.

Alcohol
An organic compound with a carbon bound to a hydroxyl group. Examples are methanol and ethanol.

Algae production
Cultivation of algae as a feedstock for biodiesel.

Alongshore
Parallel to and near the shoreline.

Air Quality
Measure of the health-related and visual charactersistics of the air. Air quality standards are the prescribed level of constituents in the outside air that cannot be exceeded during a specific time in a specified area.

AHPA
Archaeological and Historic Preservation Act.

Agricultural waste
Wastes from farming and livestock operations, including animal manure. Other examples include wheatstraw, corn stover, orchard pruning, rice hulls, and fruit pits.

Agricultural residues
The plant parts, primarily stalks and leaves, not removed from the fields with the primary food or fiber product. Examples include corn stover (stalks, leaves, husks, and cobs), wheat straw, and rice straw.

Aggregate
Mineral materials such as sand, gravel, crushed stone, or quarried rock used for construction purposes.

Afforestation
Planting of new forests on lands that historically have not contained forests.

Access roads
Gravel or dirt roads (rarely paved) that provide overland access to transmission line and pipeline rights-of-way (ROWs) and facilities for construction, inspection, maintenance, and decommissioning. Access roads have an average distance of 5 miles or less, have a nominal width of 15 feet, and exist within the center of a nominal 25-foot-wide ROW.