Glossary
- s-bulb turbines
- safeguards
- safety regulations
- salination
- salt water
- saltwater intrusion
- sand traps
- savanna climate
- savannahs
- Savonius wind turbines
- sawdust
- SCR-methode
- scrap pre-heating
- screw compressors
- screw-type engines
- scroll compressors
- scrubbers
- scrubbing
- scrubbing in gas processing
- sea level change
- sea level rise
- sealed batteries
- sealing of land
- seasonal energy efficiency ratio
- seasonal storage tanks
- second law of thermodynamics
- secondary climate changes
- sector approach
- sector programmes
- sector weirs
- sector-specific adaptation costs
- sectoral resilience
- sectoral targets
- sectors for sustainable development
- security, reconstruction and peace
- sedimentation chambers
- segment weirs
- selective surface coated
- self generation
- semi-hermetic compressors
- semiconductor junctions
- sensitization
- serial charge regulators
- serpentine collectors
- SERVIR
- setting basins
- sewage
- shading a building
- shelf based OTEC plants
- shell and tube heat exchangers
- ship locks
- ships
- Shockley–Queisser limit
- shoreline wave power plants
- short rotation plants
- short term risks
- short-term adaptation
- short-wave radiation
- shorter season varieties
- shutter weirs
- side weirs
- significant predictors
- silicon solar cells
- single axis solar trackers
- single year goals
- single-line solar hot water systems
- sinter plant waste heat recovery
- sinus inverters
- slash and burn culture
- sluice weirs
- small aircraft
- small domestic hot watersystems
- small scale hydropower plants
- small-scale wind turbines
- smallholder adaptation costs
- smart appliances
- smart grid communication networks
- smart grid demonstration projects
- Smart Grid Investment Grant Program
- smart grid keep runnings
- smart grid monitoring
- smart grid projects and programmes
- smart grid ratings
- smart grids
- smart grids systems and networks
- smart investments
- smart metering devices
- smart meters
- smart relays
- smartgrid types
- smog
- SNCR-methode
- snowfall and ice accretion
- soaking
- SOC controlled deep discharge protection
- social adaptation costs
- social assets
- social barriers to sustainability
- social benefits
- social benefits of energy efficiency policies
- social capital
- social cost
- social development
- social development theory
- social dimension of Green Growth
- social equity
- social factors
- social policies
- social resilience
- social safeguards
- social standards
- social sustainability
- socioeconomic analysis
- soft energies
- soft loans
- soil carbon
- soil erosion
- soil management
- soil moisture reduction
- soil use regimes
- soil-water heat pumps
- solar air conditioning
- solar appliances
- solar architecture
- solar carrier medium copper pipes
- solar cell embeddings
- solar cells
- solar charge controllers
- solar chimneys
- solar circuit pumps
- solar cookers
- solar cooling
- solar coverage
- solar data
- solar dryer
- solar energy potentials
- solar heating
- solar hot water
- solar lanterns
- solar mounting materials
- solar mounting systems
- solar panels
- solar power
- solar power towers
- solar process heat
- solar radiation
- solar safety glass
- solar thermal
- solar thermal collectors
- solar thermal hot water for industry
- solar thermal potentials
- solar thermal power plants
- solar thermal safety installations
- solar thermal statistical data
- solar tracker
- solar wafers
- solar water heaters
- solar water pumps
- solid electrolytes
- solid state heat pumps
- sorption technologies
- source of ocean energy
- source of organic bio substrates
- source of photovoltaic energy
- source of solar thermal energy
- source of windpower
- sources of verification
- South - South Partnerships
- south-facing windows
- soyabean
- soyabean meal
- space cooling
- space heating
- spacial redistribution
- Spanish Carbon fund
- spatial and temporal diversity
- spatial equilibrium model
- Special Climate Change Fund
- special equilibrium model
- specialists on all levels
- species
- specific economic impacts
- specific financing mechanisms
- specific heating valve
- specified energy saving
- spectrum losses
- speculations
- spent liquors
- spinning operating reserves
- spiral inflows
- spiral turbines
- spot checks
- square wave inverters
- SRES scenarios
- stagnant water intakes
- stainless steel
- stainless steel storage tanks
- stakeholder analysis
- stakeholder behavior
- stakeholder dialogues
- stakeholder engagement
- stakeholders
- stall controlled rotor blades
- stand-alone adaptation programmes
- stand-alone inverters
- stand-alone photovoltaic systems
- stand-alone systems
- stand-alone wind power turbines
- standard GHG inventories methodologies
- standard test conditions
- Standardized Precipitation Index
- standards labelling
- startup finance
- state and venture capital for energy efficiency
- State Forest Departments
- Statement of Endorsement
- static baseline scenario
- static variables
- stationary fluidized-bed combustion
- statistical climate models
- statistical crop models
- statistical models
- statistically significant model
- stator circuit inverters
- steam engines
- steam generators
- steam reforming
- steam systems
- steam systems optimization
- steam traps
- steam turbines
- steel tanks
- steel tubes
- sterilization
- stingrays
- stirling engines
- Stock of adaptive capital
- stock of human capital
- stock of natural capital
- Stock of physical capital
- stock-flow with targets
- stone tanks
- stop logs
- stop valves
- storage power stations
- storage sequestration
- storage tanks
- storm statistics
- storm surges
- storms
- stove waste gas heat recovery
- stranded assets
- stranded natural assets
- strategic adaptation
- strategic carbon planning
- strategic community planning
- strategic energy planning
- Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment
- strategic planning
- strategic water planning
- stratified hot water tanks
- string ribbon solar cells
- stripping
- structural drivers
- structural funds
- sub-national GHG reduction goals
- sub-surface soil temperatures
- subcoolers
- subject-oriented subsidies
- subsidies for fossil fuels
- subsidies for renewable energy
- subsidy
- subsistence power
- Suburb
- successful coping mechanisms
- successful efforts
- sugar cane industry
- summative evaluations
- sun tempering
- sun tubes
- super grids
- supervisory control and data acquisition communications networks
- supplemental operating reserves
- Supplementary Requirements (SRs)
- supply chain
- supporting government
- supportive governance
- surface treatments
- sustainability
- sustainability indicators
- sustainability policies
- sustainable consumption
- sustainable designs
- sustainable development
- Sustainable Development Goals
- sustainable economies
- sustainable energy regulation
- sustainable forest management
- sustainable forestry development
- sustainable infrastructure
- sustainable job creation
- sustainable livelihoods
- sustainable livelihoods approaches
- sustainable markets
- sustainable production
- sustainable transport
- sustainable urban mobility
- sustained outage
- SWAT analysis
- swell modes
- swimming pool heating systems
- switchgears
- synchronous generators
- synchrophasor communications networks
- syngas
- system boundary
- system optimization
- systems assessment for motors
- systems improvement opportunities
