Glossary
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Glossary
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A
- Acoustic Televiewer
- Adaptive Protection
- Adequacy
- Adjacent Balancing Authority
- Advanced Interrupting Switch
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure (Ami) / Smart Meters
- Advanced Transmission Applications
- Adverse Reliability Impact
- Aerial Photography
- Aeromagnetic Survey
- Algae
- Algae fuel
- Alternating current
- Alternative-fuel vehicle
- Alternator
- Altitude Correction Factor
- Ampere
- Ancillary Service
- Ancillary Services Revenue
- Angle of incidence
- Anode
- Anthracite coal
- Anti-Aliasing Filter
- Area Control Error
- Arranged Interchange
- Automated Capacitors
- Automated Distribution Circuit Switches
- Automated Feeder And Line Switching
- Automated Islanding And Reconnection
- Automated Voltage And Var Control
- Automated Voltage Regulators
- Automatic Generation Control
- Available Transfer Capability
- Azimuth
B
- Backhaul Communications
- Balancing Authority
- Balancing Authority Area
- Base Load
- Battery
- Bes Emergency
- Biodiesel
- Bioenergy
- Biofuels
- Biomass
- Biomass Briquettes
- Biomass Cook Stove
- Biopower
- Biorefinery
- Bituminous coal
- Blackstart Capability Plan
- Brayton cycle
- Briquettes
- British thermal unit
- Bulk Electric System
- Burden
C
- Capacity Benefit Margin
- Capacity Emergency
- Capacity Revenue
- Capacity factor
- Cascading Outage
- Cathode
- Cellulosic ethanol
- Chemical energy
- Circuit Peak Load Management
- Clock Hour
- Coal
- Cogeneration
- Coke
- Combined heat and power
- Combustion
- Commercial Loans
- Compliance Monitor
- Composition Analysis
- Concentrating solar power
- Conceptual Model
- Confirmed Interchange
- Congestion Management Report
- Constrained Facility
- Contingency
- Contingency Reserve
- Contract Path
- Control Performance Standard
- Controllable and Regulating Inverter
- Controllable/Regulating Inverter
- Corrective Action Plan
- Cranking Path
- Critical Assets
- Critical Cyber Assets
- Critical Peak Pricing
- Critical Peak Rebates
- Curtailment
- Curtailment Threshold
- Customer Electricity Use Optimization
- Customer Ems/Display/Portal
- Customer Energy Management Device and System
- Customer System Communications Network
- Customer Web Portal
- Cyber Assets
- Cyber Security Incident
D
- Daylighting
- Deferred Distribution Capacity Investments
- Deferred Generation Capacity Investments
- Deferred Transmission Capacity Investments
- Delayed Fault Clearing
- Demand
- Demand Side Management
- Diagnosis & Notification Of Equipment Condition
- Diesel fuel
- Direct Control Load Management
- Direct Load Control Device
- Direct current
- Direct normal irradiance
- Dispersed Load By Substations
- Distributed Energy Resource
- Distributed generation
- Distribution Automation
- Distribution Automation Communications Network
- Distribution Factor
- Distribution Management System
- Distribution Provider
- District chilled water
- District heat
- Disturbance
- Disturbance Control Standard
- Disturbance Monitoring Equipment
- Dynamic Capability Rating
- Dynamic Capability Rating System
- Dynamic Interchange Schedule Or Dynamic Schedule
- Dynamic Pricing Program
- Dynamic Transfer
E
E cont.
- Emergency Rating
- Energy
- Energy Emergency
- Energy Management Device
- Energy Poverty
- Energy Revenue
- Enhanced Fault Detection Technology
- Enhanced Fault Protection
- Enhanced Geothermal Systems
- Equipment Condition Monitor
- Equipment Health Sensor
- Equipment Rating
- Ethanol
F
- Facility
- Facility Rating
- Facts Device
- Fault
- Fault Current Limiter
- Fault Current Limiting
- Field Mapping-Structural Analysis
- Firm Demand
- Firm Transmission Service
- Flowgate
- Forced Outage
- Forward-Looking Infrared
- Fossil fuels
- Frequency Bias
- Frequency Bias Setting
- Frequency Deviation
- Frequency Error
- Frequency Regulation
- Frequency Response
- Fuel cell
G
- Generator Operator
- Generator Owner
- Generator Shift Factor
- Generator-To-Load Distribution Factor
- Geodetic Survey
- Geothermal Direct Use
- Geothermal energy
- Geothermometry
- Global horizontal irradiance
- Gross generation
H
- HVAC
- Head-End System
- Heat
- Heat exchanger
- Heat pump
- Home Area Network
- Host Balancing Authority
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- Hydroelectric power
- Hyperspectral Imaging
I
- Implemented Interchange
- Inadvertent Interchange
- Independent Power Producer
- Information Service
- Insolation
- Interchange
- Interchange Authority
- Interchange Distribution Calculator
- Interchange Schedule
- Interchange Transaction
- Interchange Transaction Tag Or Tag
- Interconnected Operations Service
- Interconnection
- Interconnection Reliability Operating Limit
- Interconnection Reliability Operating Limit Tv
- Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
- Intermediate Balancing Authority
- Interruptible Load Or Interruptible Demand
- Inverter
- Investment Grant Program
- Irradiance
J
K
L
- Lead-acid battery
- LiDAR
- Limiting Element
- Line Transformer Monitors
- Liquid natural gas
- Load
- Load Shift Factor
- Load-Serving Entity
- Loading Monitor
M
- Magnetotellurics
- Mechanical energy
- Meter Communications Network
- Meter Data Analysis System
- Meter Data Management System
- Micro/Nano Hydro
- Microgrid Controller
- Microgrids
- Misoperation
- Mode Meter
- Multispectral Imaging
N
- Nameplate Capacity
- Native Load
- Natural gas
- Net Actual Interchange
- Net Energy For Load
- Net Interchange Schedule
- Net Scheduled Interchange
- Net Zero
- Net generation
- Network Integration Transmission Service
- Non-Firm Transmission Service
- Non-Spinning Reserve
- Normal Clearing
- Normal Rating
O
- Off-Peak
- On-Peak
- Open Access Same Time Information Service
- Open Access Transmission Tariff
- Operating Plan
- Operating Procedure
- Operating Process
- Operating Reserve
- Operating Reserve - Spinning
- Operating Reserve - Supplemental
- Operating Voltage
- Optimized Generator Operation
- Outage Detection/Reporting
- Outage Management System
- Overlap Regulation Service
P
- PV array
- PV module
- Parabolic trough
- Passive Solar
- Passive solar
- Passive solar heating
- Peak Demand
- Performance-Reset Period
- Petroleum
- Petroleum coke
- Phase Angle Regulating Transformer
- Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC)
- Phasor Measurement Technology
- Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU)
- Photovoltaics
- Physical Security Perimeter
- Planning Authority
- Plug-in Electric Vehicle Charging Station
- Point Of Delivery
- Point Of Receipt
- Point To Point Transmission Service
P cont.
- Power
- Power Flow Control
- Power density
- Pro Forma Tariff
- Programmable Communicating Thermostat
- Protection System
- Pseudo-Tie
- Purchasing-Selling Entity
Q
R
- Radar
- Radiometrics
- Ramp Rate(Generator)
- Ramp Rate(Schedule)
- Rankine cycle
- Rated Electrical Operating Conditions
- Rated power
- Rating
- Reactive Power
- Real Power
- Real-Time Load Measurement And Management
- Real-Time Load Transfer
- Real-time Pricing
- Reallocation
- Receiving Balancing Authority
- Reduced Ancillary Service Cost
- Reduced Co2 Emissions
- Reduced Congestion Cost
- Reduced Electricity Cost
- Reduced Electricity Losses
- Reduced Electricity Theft
- Reduced Equipment Failures
- Reduced Major Outages
- Reduced Meter Reading Cost
- Reduced Momentary Outages
- Reduced Oil Usage (Not Monetized)
- Reduced Restoration Cost
- Reduced Sags And Swells
- Reduced Sox, Nox, And Pm-2.5 Emissions
- Reduced Sustained Outages
- Reduced T&D Equipment Maintenance Cost
- Reduced T&D Operations Cost
- Reduced Wide-Scale Blackouts
- Regional Demonstration Projects
- Regional Reliability Organization
- Regional Reliability Plan
- Regulating Reserve
- Regulation Service
- Reliability Coordinator
- Reliability Coordinator Area
- Reliability Coordinator Information System
- Remote Fault Indicators
- Remote Sensing Methods
- Remote Service Switch
- Renewable Energy Forecasting Tool
- Reportable Disturbance
- Request For Interchange
- Reserve Sharing Group
- Resource Planner
- Response Rate
- Right-Of-Way (Row)
S
- SWIR
- Scheduling Entity
- Scheduling Path
- Semiconductor
- Sending Balancing Authority
- Shuttle Radar Topography
- Sink Balancing Authority
- Smart Appliance
- Smart Appliances And Equipment (Customer)
- Smart Relays
- Smart grid
- Software - Advanced Analysis/Visualization
- Solar Cooking
- Solar Lanterns
- Solar Water Heating
- Solar cell
- Solar energy
- Solar radiation
- Source Balancing Authority
- Special Protection System
- Spinning Reserve
- Stability
- Stability Limit
- Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
- Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Communications Network
- Supplemental Regulation Service
- Surge
- Sustainability
- Sustained Outage
- Synchrophasor Communications Network
- Synthetic Aperture Radar
- System
- System Operating Limit
T
- Tar Sands
- Telemetering
- Therm
- Thermal Overload Monitoring
- Thermal Rating
- Thermal energy
- Thermodynamic cycle
- Thermoelectric power generation
- Tie Line
- Tie Line Bias
- Time Error
- Time Error Correction
- Time-Based Rate Program
- Time-of-use Pricing
- Tlr Log
- Total Transfer Capability
- Transfer Capability
- Transformer
- Transmission
- Transmission Angle and Frequency Monitoring
- Transmission Constraint
- Transmission Customer
- Transmission Line
- Transmission Line Monitoring System
- Transmission Operator
- Transmission Owner
- Transmission Planner
- Transmission Reliability
- Transmission Reliability Margin
- Transmission Service
- Transmission Service Provider
- Transmission System Operator
- Transmission lines
- Turbine
- Two-Way Communications (High Bandwidth)
V
- Variable Peak Pricing
- Vehicle to Grid Charging Station
- Very Low Impedance (Hts) Cables
- Volt
- Voltage Stability Monitoring
- Volume
W
- Water Cooling
- Water Wheels
- Watt
- Wide Area
- Wide Area Monitoring, Visualization, & Control
- Wind energy
- Wind power
- Wind rose
- Wind turbine
- Workforce Training
Y