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      "term": "Energy Use Intensity (EUI)",
      "category": "performance metric",
      "reference": "ENERGY STAR",
      "definition": "Annual energy consumed per square foot of floor area"
    },
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      "term": "Kilowatt-hour (kWh)",
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      "reference": "EIA",
      "definition": "Unit of electrical energy equal to one kilowatt sustained for one hour"
    },
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      "term": "Demand charge",
      "category": "billing term",
      "reference": "utility tariffs",
      "definition": "Billing component based on a facility's peak power draw"
    },
    {
      "term": "Load factor",
      "category": "performance metric",
      "reference": "DOE",
      "definition": "Ratio of average demand to peak demand over a period"
    },
    {
      "term": "Net metering",
      "category": "policy term",
      "reference": "DSIRE",
      "definition": "Crediting on-site generation exported back to the grid"
    },
    {
      "term": "Power factor",
      "category": "electrical metric",
      "reference": "IEEE",
      "definition": "Ratio of real power to apparent power in an AC system"
    },
    {
      "term": "Peak demand",
      "category": "performance metric",
      "reference": "utility tariffs",
      "definition": "Highest instantaneous power draw within a billing period"
    },
    {
      "term": "Time-of-use rate",
      "category": "rate structure",
      "reference": "utility tariffs",
      "definition": "Pricing that varies by time of day and season"
    },
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      "term": "HVAC",
      "category": "system",
      "reference": "ASHRAE",
      "definition": "Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems"
    },
    {
      "term": "Building envelope",
      "category": "building component",
      "reference": "IECC",
      "definition": "The physical barrier separating conditioned and unconditioned space"
    },
    {
      "term": "Commissioning (Cx)",
      "category": "process",
      "reference": "ASHRAE Guideline 0",
      "definition": "Quality-assurance process verifying building systems perform as designed"
    },
    {
      "term": "Kilowatt (kW)",
      "category": "unit",
      "reference": "EIA",
      "definition": "Unit of power equal to one thousand watts"
    }
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      "url": "https://www.eia.gov/tools/glossary/",
      "name": "EIA Energy Glossary"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.energystar.gov/buildings/tools-and-resources",
      "name": "ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager Glossary"
    }
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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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    "term": "Energy term or metric",
    "category": "Type of concept",
    "reference": "Where the term is standardized or defined",
    "definition": "Plain-language meaning"
  },
  "buyer_use_cases": [
    "Standardize energy terminology across a project team and utility",
    "Interpret line items on commercial utility invoices",
    "Onboard estimators to building-energy performance metrics"
  ]
}