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Any entity, other than the insurance policy holder, that receives certain contractual benefits of an ԩnsuredԠunder the policy. To benefit from such status, the entity has to be named in the insurance policy.

The number of times that the inside air of a building is replaced in one hour.

Zone of Earth’s mantle lying beneath the lithosphere and believed to be much hotter and more fluid than the lithosphere. The asthenosphere extends from about 100 km to about 700 km below Earth’s surface.

Renewable energy auctions are procurement systems in which various bidders compete to be (partially) compensated for producing a given volume of electricity

The entirety of all birds observable in a region.

Of or relating to birds of a particular region or period.

May refer to:

1) capacitance

2) concentration ratio of solar concentrators

Used in reference to insurance, a claim may be a demand by an individual or corporation to recover, under a policy of insurance, for loss that may come within that policy.

A section of a policy contract, or of an endorsement attached to it, dealing with a particular subject in the contract, for example, the "insuring clause" or the "coinsurance clause."

The date on which the project's cash flows become the primary method of repayment. It occurs after a completion test typically involving both financial and physical performance criteria. Prior to completion, the primary source of repayment is usually from the sponsors or from the contractor.

Water trapped in the pores of a rock during formation of the rock. Might also be described as fossil water. Connate water can be dense and saline compared with seawater. Formation water, or interstitial water, in contrast, is simply water found in the pore spaces of a rock, and might not have been present when the rock was formed.

Pre-agreed cost overrun funding in the investment cost budget of a project company (a "money reserve" for unexpected cash shortages during project implementation).

May refer to:

1) coefficient of performance

2) Conference of the Parties

The amount above 1.0x of a debt service coverage ratio.

"An amount the insurer will deduct from the loss before paying up to its policy limits. Most property insurance policies contain a per-occurrence deductible provision that stipulates that the deductible amount specified in the policy declarations will be subtracted from each covered loss in determining the amount of the insured's loss recovery. Usually, the amount of the deductible is not subtracted from policy limits.

When a covenant has been broken or an adverse event has occurred. A monetary default occurs when a repayment is not made on time. A technical default occurs when a project parameter is outside defined or agreed-upon limits, or a legal matter is not yet resolved.

The ratio of output power (or energy) to input power (or energy). Expressed as a percentage.

An insurance policy form that either changes or adds to the provisions included in one or more other forms used to construct the policy, such as the declarations page or the coverage form. Insurance policy endorsements may serve any number of functions, including broadening the scope of coverage, limiting or restricting the scope of coverage, clarifying the application of coverage to some unique loss exposure, adding other parties as insureds, or adding locations to the policy. They often effect these changes by modifying the existing insuring agreement, policy definitions, exclusions, or conditions in the coverage form or adding additional information, such as insured locations, to the declarations page.

The ability of a system to do work. Measured in joules or kilowatt-hours (kWh).

May refer to: 1. Energy conversion efficiency, the ratio between the output and input of an energy conversion machine. 2. Energy conservation, efforts made to reduce energy consumption.

The EGS concept is to produce energy from geothermal resources that are otherwise not economical due to lack of water and/or permeability. It extracts heat by artificially creating a subsurface fracture system to which water can be added through injection wells. Injected water is heated by contact with the rock and returns to the surface through production wells.

Sum of the internal energy and the product of the pressure and volume of a thermodynamic system. Enthalpy is an energy-like property or state function. In symbols, the enthalpy, H, equals the sum of the internal energy, E, and the product of the pressure, P, and volume, V, of the system: H = E + PV.

May refer to:

1) energy performance contracting

2) Engineering Procurement Construction

see: principal exlusions

The geosphere is considered that portion of the Earth system that includes the Earth's interior, rocks and minerals, landforms and the processes that shape the Earth's surface.

A play type in petroleum geology represents a particular stratigraphic or structural geological setting, defined by source rock, reservoir rock and trap. Translated to geothermal systems, a play type might be defined by the heat source and the geological controls on heat transport and thermal energy storage capacity.

An organic fluid used for freeze protection