Topic 3 - Renewable Energy

Words and Expressions

1.disrupt v.

Business. to radically change (an industry, business strategy, etc.), as by introducing a new product or service that creates a new market:

e.g. It’s time to disrupt your old business model.

Wind and solar energy are disrupting a century-old model of providing electricity.

2.Bavarian

3.villain

4.lazily

5.turbine

6.barns and cowsheds

7.photovoltaic

8.panel

9.manure

10.handsomely

11.pocket v.

12.subsidy

13.generator

14.grid

15.anathema

16.revenue

17.incumbent

18.a semi-official forecaster

19.disruptive

20.pricey

21.robust

22.perennial

23.revenue-neutral economy

24.in rebates

25.glut

26.shale-gas revolution

27.starkly

28.wholesale

29.slump

30.megawatt-hour

31.havoc

32.consultancy

33.write off

34.marginal

35.disruptive punch

36.deregulated

37.merit order

38.at first blush

39.intermittent intermittency

40.infrastructure

41.doldrum

42.champion

43.standby

44.cling on

45.diesel

46.insulate

47.turn negative

48.think-tank

49.vicious

50.deter

51.penetration

52.portfolio

53.incentive

54.cannibalise

55.peg

56.shy away from

57.bucking

58.eat into demand

59.in part

60.cut to subsidies

61.incipient

62.death by a thousand cuts

63.dromedary

64.icon

65.solar cell

66.grumble

67.credit something

68.p7.7recipitously

69.auction

70.slash

71.levellise

72.operate a plant over its lifetime

73.lucrative

74.commoditise

75.kilowatt-hour

76.kit

77.decisive

78.liken

79.upheaval

80.telecom

81.gigawatt

82.nibbling

83.crowdsourcing

84.disruption

85.doom

86.thermostat

87.obscure

88.they scream blue murder when the lights go out.

89.fitful

90.stall

91.unabated

92.penetration

93.lay waste