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Best Practice Guide GlossaryBrowse the glossary alphabetically: QUAD Return to list of termsOne quadrillion (1015 or 1,000,000,000,000,000) British thermal units (Btus). An amount of energy equal to 170 million barrels of oil. Total U.S. consumption of all forms of energy is (in the 1990s) about 83 quads in an average year. Source: California Energy Commission |