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Encyclopedia of Marine and Energy Technology

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REN21

energy

A think tank and a multistakeholder governance group which is focused on renewable energy policy.

Rendez-vous

marine

An appointment between vessels normally made by radio to have a meeting in a certain area or position.

Renewable capacity

energy

A measure of the generating capacity that can be acheived from renewable energy sources.

Renewable energy

energy

An energy source that comes from naturally existing resources that are easily replenished or in constant supply.

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership

energy

The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) is a Vienna-based international organisation that advances markets for renewable energy and energy efficiency with a particular emphasis on the emerging markets and developing countries.

Renewable energy commercialization

energy

Renewable energy commercialization involves the deployment of three generations of renewable energy technologies dating back more than 100 years.

Renewable energy credit

energy

A renewable energy credit is a certificate corresponding to the environmental attributes of energy produced from renewable sources such as wind or solar.

Renewable energy law

energy

Renewable energy law is a particular kind of energy law, and relates primarily to the transactional legal and policy issues that surround the development, implementation, and commercialization of renewable sources of energy, such as solar, wind, geothermal and tidal.

Renewable fuels

energy

Renewable fuels are fuels produced from renewable resources they can include fuels that are synthesized from renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar.

Renewable Fuels Association

energy

The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) represents the ethanol industry promoting policies, regulations, and research and development initiatives that will lead to the increased production and use of ethanol fuel.

Renewable natural gas

energy

Renewable Natural Gas, also known as biomethane, is a biogas which has been upgraded to a quality similar to fossil natural gas and having a methane concentration of 90% or greater.

Renewables.ninja

energy

A web tool developed by Imperial College London and ETH Zürich that shows the estimated amount of energy that could be generated by wind or solar farms at any location.

Replacement reserve

energy

The replacement reserve (also known as contingency reserve) is reserve power provided by generators that require a longer start-up time (typically thirty to sixty minutes).

Repowering

energy

Repowering is the process of replacing older power stations with newer ones that either have a greater nameplate capacity or more efficiency which results in a net increase of power generated.

Representative spaces

marine

Those spaces which are expected to reflect the condition of other spaces of similar type and service and with similar corrosion prevention systems.

Reproducibility

energy

Reproducibility is a major principle of the scientific method.

Request for quotation

energy

A request for quotation (RfQ) is a business process in which a company or public entity requests a quote from a supplier for the purchase of specific products or services.

Required free-fall height

marine

The greatest distance measured from the still water surface to the lowest point on the lifeboat when the lifeboat is in the launch configuration and the ship is in its lightest seagoing condition.

Requirements engineering

energy

Requirements engineering is the process of defining, documenting, and maintaining requirements in the engineering design process.

RESCUBE evacuation system

marine

A novel idea of evacuation of a large number of people from a passenger vessel, proposed by Jan Ingar Norheim and developed by Norsafe.

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