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To help you understand the key issues facing our industry, please use the following glossary of terms:
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- Fault
- Point of trouble in an electric circuit.
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
- The independent, Washington, D.C.-based regulatory agency within the U.S. Department of Energy that approves rates for wholesale electricity transactions and regulates the transmission of electricity in interstate commerce for utilities, power marketers, power pools, power exchanges and independent system operators.
- Feedback
- Circuit energized from same source.
- Feeder
- Line supplying all of the branch circuits with the main supply of current.
- Flash Arc
- The flow of electric current across the gap in a circuit which causes a light or a flow.
- Flexible Conduit
- Nonrigid conduit made of a fabric or metal strip wound spirally.
- Fluctuating Voltage
- Service goes from bright to dim and back to bright intermittently.
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