kWantera Entrance Exam

The 7 operating divisions of General Electric are, GE Power and Water, GE Oil and Gas, GE Energy Management, GE Aviation, GE Healthcare, GE Transportation & GE Capital.

According to the 2010 Energy Information Administration what was the approximate distribution of consumption between industrial, residential and commercial users?

There are 27 major natural gas distribution hubs in the United States.

RMR is the acronym for Running Major-Returns.

The ‘3 dimensions’ of Big Data are:

What was the average price per kWh in 2005?

The following are the 10 ISO/RTOs in North America: 1. PJM, 2. CAISO, 3. NEISO, 4. MISO, 5. NYISO, 6. SPP, 7. NBSO, 8. OIESO, 9. AESO, & 10. ERCOT

What is the approximate mix of electricity consumption in the United States?

Most of the electricity transmission in the United States is via Direct Current.

Who is Calvin Knight and what does he do?

What was the original name of kWantera?

The acronym OASIS stands for Open Access Same-Time Information System, in which the transmission utilities are required to post the availability of transmission service.

What is the acronym/symbol for the number of kilowatts used in an hour is the amount of electricity a customer uses or a power plant generates over a period of time?

FTR's are contracts that give market participants an offset, or hedge, against transmission congestion costs in the day-ahead market. They protect the holder the costs of arising from transmission congestion over a specific path of the grid

How often do wholesale markets clear?

The deliberate withholding of supply is an attempt to manipulate market prices.

The average cost to store a Gigabite of data using Hadoop is 35 cents.

There are 160 major natural gas trading hubs on Ice in the United States.

Hadoop uses Disaggregated File System (DFS).

What are the 2 distinct markets for natural gas in the United States?

The acronym RTAP stands for "Real Time Analytic Processing".

The three types of unconventional natural gas include Conventional: Tight sands gas, Coalbed methane gas & Shale gas.

The 7 criteria for evaluating the quality of data include Accuracy, Integrity, Completeness, Validity, Consistency, Uniformity & Density.

By dollar volume and electricity volume, what is the largest ISO/RTO in the United States?

Apache Cassandra is a NoSQL open-source Distributed Database Management System.

Four types of Ancillary Services include, regulation, operating reserves, black start and reactive power.

The name kWantera dirives from 'k' - Coulomb's law constant, 'Want', wanting lower energy prices, 'Era', we are now in an era of predicting energy prices with data science.

Who was kWantera's first customer?

Five types of renewable energy include, wind, biomass, solar, geothermal, biogas.

Curtailing, Shifting and On-Site Generation are the three most popular forms of Demand Response in the US.