M&C Energy Group Glossary |
Find here terms and their explanations commonly used in Energy Industry, Finance and Trading Boards
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| Rack Price | Price charged by a supplier to a customer that buys transport truck lots at a terminal, on a free on board basis. |
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| Rally | An advancing price movement following a decline in a market. |
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| Range | The difference between the highest and lowest prices recorded during a given trading period. |
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| Ratio Spread | Any spread where the number of long market contracts and the number of short market contracts are unequal. |
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| Reactive Charges | Charges applied to a client's invoice in cases where certain suppliers and distribution companies enforce a penalty for reactive power use. |
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| Real Power | See Active Power. |
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| Refiner-Distributor | A company that acts as a wholesaler of gasoline, heating oil, or other products which operates its own refinery; may also retail and buy additional supplies to supplement its own refining output. |
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| Refinery | A plant used to process crude oil or metals. An oil refinery separates the fractions of crude oil and converts them into usable products. A metals refinery removes impurities, bringing the metal up to designated purity specifications. |
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| Reforming Process | The use of heat and catalysts to effect the rearrangement of certain hydrocarbon molecules without altering their composition appreciably; for example, the conversion of low-octane naphthas or gasolines into high-octane number products. |
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| Regulator | OFGEM is the Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets, regulating the gas and electricity industries in the UK. You can get further information about gas and electricity from Energywatch, the gas and electricity consumer organisation. This is a statutory body representing the interests of gas and electricity consumers in the UK.
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| Reinforcement | Any alteration to the existing system designed to enable the system to distribute an increased amount of electricity. |
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| Renewable Energy | Energy derived from resources that are regenerative. This includes solar power, wind, wave and tide and hydroelectricity. Wood, straw and waste are often called solid renewable energy, while landfill gas and sewerage gas can be described as gaseous renewable. |
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| Renewable Obligation | The obligation placed on licensed electricity suppliers to deliver a specified amount of their electricity from eligible sources. |
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| Reportable Position | The number of futures contracts, as determined by the Exchange or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, above which a customer must be identified daily to the Exchange and to the Commission with regard to the size of his position by commodity, by delivery month, and by purpose of the trading. |
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| Residual Fuel Oil | Heavy fuel oil produced from the residue in the fractional distillation process rather than from the distilled fractions. |
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| Resistance | Opposite of support. |
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| Resting Order | An order away from the market, waiting to be executed. |
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| Rollover | A special futures straddle trading procedure involving the shift of one month of a straddle into another future month while maintaining the other contract month of the original spread position. The shift can take place in either the long or short straddle month. |
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| Round Lot | A quantity of a commodity equal in size to the corresponding futures contract for the commodity, as distinguished from a job lot, which may be larger or smaller than the contract. |
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| Roundturn | The completion of both a purchase and sale of a commodity futures contract. |
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