Smart Grid Glossary
Smart Grid Glossary
A
- Adaptive Protection
- Adjacent Balancing Authority
- Advanced Interrupting Switch
- Advanced Metering Infrastructure (Ami) / Smart Meters
- Adverse Reliability Impact
- Altitude Correction Factor
- Ancillary Service
- Ancillary Services Revenue
- Anti-Aliasing Filter
- Area Control Error
- Arranged Interchange
- Automated Feeder And Line Switching
- Automated Islanding And Reconnection
- Automated Voltage And Var Control
- Automatic Generation Control
- Available Transfer Capability
B
- Balancing Authority
- Balancing Authority Area
- Base Load
- Bes Emergency
- Blackstart Capability Plan
- Bulk Electric System
- Burden
C
- Capacity Benefit Margin
- Capacity Emergency
- Capacity Revenue
- Cascading Outage
- Circuit Peak Load Management
- Clock Hour
- Compliance Monitor
- Confirmed Interchange
- Congestion Management Report
- Constrained Facility
- Contingency
- Contingency Reserve
- Contract Path
- Control Performance Standard
- Controllable/Regulating Inverter
- Corrective Action Plan
- Cranking Path
- Critical Assets
- Critical Cyber Assets
- Critical Peak Pricing
- Curtailment
- Curtailment Threshold
- Customer Electricity Use Optimization
- Customer Ems/Display/Portal
- Cyber Assets
- Cyber Security Incident
D
- Deferred Distribution Capacity Investments
- Deferred Generation Capacity Investments
- Deferred Transmission Capacity Investments
- Delayed Fault Clearing
- Demand
- Demand Side Management
- Diagnosis & Notification Of Equipment Condition
- Direct Control Load Management
- Dispersed Load By Substations
- Distribution Factor
- Distribution Management System
- Distribution Provider
- Disturbance
- Disturbance Control Standard
- Disturbance Monitoring Equipment
- Dynamic Capability Rating
- Dynamic Interchange Schedule Or Dynamic Schedule
- Dynamic Transfer
E
- Economic Dispatch
- Electric Vehicle Charging Station
- Electrical Energy
- Electronic Security Perimeter
- Element
- Emergency Or Bes Emergency
- Emergency Rating
- Energy Emergency
- Energy Revenue
- Enhanced Fault Detection Technology
- Enhanced Fault Protection
- Equipment Health Sensor
- Equipment Rating
F
F cont.
- Fault
- Fault Current Limiter
- Firm Demand
- Firm Transmission Service
- Flowgate
- Forced Outage
- Frequency Bias
- Frequency Bias Setting
- Frequency Deviation
- Frequency Error
- Frequency Regulation
- Frequency Response
G
H
I
- Implemented Interchange
- Inadvertent Interchange
- Independent Power Producer
- Information Service
- 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
- Intermediate Balancing Authority
- Interruptible Load Or Interruptible Demand
- Investment Grant Program
J
L
M
N
- Native Load
- Net Actual Interchange
- Net Energy For Load
- Net Interchange Schedule
- Net Scheduled Interchange
- Network Integration Transmission Service
- Non-Firm Transmission Service
- Non-Spinning Reserve
- Normal Clearing
- Normal Rating
O
- Off-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
- Overlap Regulation Service
P
- Peak Demand
- Performance-Reset Period
- Phase Angle Regulating Transformer
- Phasor Measurement Technology
- Physical Security Perimeter
- Planning Authority
- Point Of Delivery
- Point Of Receipt
- Point To Point Transmission Service
- Power Flow Control
- Pro Forma Tariff
- Protection System
- Pseudo-Tie
- Purchasing-Selling Entity
R
R cont.
- Reactive Power
- Real Power
- Real-Time Load Measurement And Management
- Real-Time Load Transfer
- 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 Reliability Organization
- Regional Reliability Plan
- Regulating Reserve
- Regulation Service
- Reliability Coordinator
- Reliability Coordinator Area
- Reliability Coordinator Information System
- Remote Fault Indicators
- Renewable Energy Forecasting Tool
- Reportable Disturbance
- Request For Interchange
- Reserve Sharing Group
- Resource Planner
- Response Rate
- Right-Of-Way (Row)
S
- Scheduling Entity
- Scheduling Path
- Sending Balancing Authority
- Sink Balancing Authority
- Smart Appliances And Equipment (Customer)
- Software - Advanced Analysis/Visualization
- Source Balancing Authority
- Special Protection System
- Spinning Reserve
- Stability
- Stability Limit
- Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
- Supplemental Regulation Service
- Surge
- Sustained Outage
- System
- System Operating Limit
T
- Telemetering
- Thermal Overload Monitoring
- Thermal Rating
- Tie Line
- Tie Line Bias
- Time Error
- Time Error Correction
- Tlr Log
- Total Transfer Capability
- Transfer Capability
- Transmission Constraint
- Transmission Customer
- Transmission Line
- Transmission Operator
- Transmission Owner
- Transmission Planner
- Transmission Reliability
- Transmission Reliability Margin
- Transmission Service
- Transmission Service Provider
- Transmission System Operator
- Two-Way Communications (High Bandwidth)
V
W