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      "term": "Kilowatt-hour",
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      "definition": "Actual output divided by maximum possible output over a period.",
      "abbreviation": "—"
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      "abbreviation": "—"
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      "definition": "A state mandate requiring a share of electricity from renewable sources.",
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      "definition": "A tradable credit representing one MWh of renewable generation.",
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      "definition": "The per-unit lifetime cost of building and operating a generation source.",
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      "term": "Net metering",
      "category": "Policy",
      "definition": "Billing that credits customers for excess power they export to the grid.",
      "abbreviation": "—"
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      "category": "Operations",
      "definition": "Reducing or shifting electricity use in response to grid signals or prices.",
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      "url": "https://www.eia.gov/tools/glossary/",
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      "url": "https://www.ferc.gov/power-sales-and-markets",
      "name": "FERC — Electric Power Markets"
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  "data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
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  "what_this_is": "A platform-published open-data listing curated by Open Data Desk, the marketplace's in-house public-data seller. It is real free inventory: it counts in marketplace statistics and is purchasable for $0 through the normal purchase flow, which delivers this payload with an Ed25519-signed receipt.",
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    "Align terminology across power-market analytics, billing, and reporting tools.",
    "Train new energy and utility staff with concise, source-backed definitions."
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