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Energy

Energy is generally described as ‘the ability to do work’. Forms of energy we use every day include:

  • moving an object
  • heating a building
  • lighting a room.

Common forms of energy include:

  • thermal
  • chemical
  • electrical
  • mechanical.

Energy can be transferred from one form to another.

Example: the mechanical energy in wind can be converted into electrical energy which we can use to light and heat our homes.

 

Related Terms

Biofuels

Biomass

Blue hydrogen

Building Energy Rating (BER)

Built environment

Carbon Dioxide/ CO2

Carbon emissions

Carbon footprint

Climate

Climate Action Plan

Climate change

Decarbonisation

District heating

Electricity interconnector

Emissions

Energy

Energy Efficiency

F-gases or fluorinated gases

Fossil fuels

Fracking

Green hydrogen

Greenhouse Gas Emissions / GHGs

Heat pumps

Liquefied natural gas / LNG

Microgeneration

MTCO2EQ

National Energy and Climate Plan

National Retrofit Plan

Offshore renewable energy

Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS)

Renewable energy

Retrofitting (energy retrofitting)

Smoky coal

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