A Analogue (input)

A&M Agricultural and Mechanical (Texas A&M University)

AC Alternating Current

ACC AltaLink's Control Center

ACD Automatic Call Distributor

ACE Area Control Error

ACP Application Communication Protocol

ACR Automatic Circuit Recloser

ACSE Association Control Service Element

ACSR Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced

ACSR/TW Aluminum Conductor Steel Reinforced/ Trapezoidal Wire

ADaMS Automated Dispatch and Messaging System

ADE Application Domain Extension (CityGML)

AE Alarms & Events

AEIC Association of Edison Illuminating Companies

AEMERA Alberta Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Agency

AENV Alberta Environment

AEP American Electric Power (company)

AES Advanced Encryption Standard (old is DES)

AESO Alberta Electrical System Operators

AEUC Alberta Electrical Utility Code

AFC Automated Flow Control

AFD Arc Flash Detector

AFE Authorization For Expenditure

AFL Automated Fault Location (AFL System)

AFM Application Functionality Module

AFS Automated Feeder Switch

AFUDC Allowance for Funds Used During Construction

AGA American Gas Association

AGC Automatic Generation Control

AI-EES Alberta Innovates - Energy and Environment Solutions

AIES Alberta Interconnected Electrical System

AIS Air Insulated Substation

AITF Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures

ALT Automatic Load Transfer

AM Amplitude modulation

AM / FM Automated Mapping / Facilities Management

AMI Advanced Metering Infrastructure

AMR Automated Meter Reading

ANID Abbreviated Needs Identification Document (AUC)

ANM Active Network Management

ANSI American National Standards Institute

AO Asset Optimization

APDM ArcGIS Pipeline Data Model (see PODS)

API Application Programming Interface

AR Autoregressive

ARC AESO Reliability Committee

ARC Alberta Research Council

ARMA Autoregressive Moving-Average

ARP Address Resolution Protocol

ASAT Automation Solutions and Technologies

ASE2000 Applied Systems Engineering

ASEAS Automatic Substation Event Analysis System

ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers

ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One

ASP Area Structure Plan

ASR Automatic Sectionalizing and Restoration

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

ATC Automatic Transmission Control

ATC Available Transmission Capability (see TTC)

ATIS Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions

ATM Automated Teller Machine

ATP Alternative Transient Program (EMTP)

ATP Alberta Transmission Project

ATS Applicant Tracking Software

AUC Alberta Utility Commission

AVL Automatic Vehicle Location

AVR Automatic Voltage Regulator

AVVC Advanced Volt/VAR Control

AWG American Wire Gauge

BA Balancing Area

BA Balancing Authority

BACnet Building Automation and Control Networks (USA)

BACS Building Automation and Control Systems

BAN Business Area Network

BAS Building Automation System

BCA benefit cost analysis

BCSE Branch Current State Estimation

BCU Bay Controller Unit

BEMS Building Energy Management System

BER Bit Error Rate (Ratio)

BES Battery Energy Storage

BES Bulk Electricity System

BES Bulk Energy Supplier

BESS Battery Energy Storage System

BEV (all) Battery Electrical Vehicle

BFR Breaker Failure Relay

BI Business Intelligence

BIL Basic Impulse Insulation Level

BIM Building Information Modeling

BMS Building Management System

BNC Bayonet Neill–Concelman (connector )

BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory

BOT Board of Trustees (adoption @ NERC)

BPA Bonneville Power Administration

BP-ANN Back propagation artificial neural networks

BPL Broadband over Power Line

BPM Business Process Management

BRP Budget Review Process (at AESO)

BRP Balance Responsible Party

C&I Commercial and Industrial (customers)

CA Contingency Analysis

CABA Computer-aided Breaker Analysis (A Megger Group Company)

CABREE Centre of Applied Business Research in Energy and the Environment

CAES Compressed Air Energy Storage

CAGR Compound Annual Growth Rate

CAIDI Customer Average Interruption Duration Index (SAIDI / SAIFI)

CAMPUT Canadian Association of Members of Public Utility Tribunals

CAN Customer Area Network

CAP Computer Aided Programming

CAPE Computer Aided Protection Engineering

CARE Cascade Algorithm & Rules Engine

CASCADE Cognitive Agents and Distributed Energy

CB Circuit Breaker

CBD Central Business District

CBF Circuit Breaker Fault

CBM Circuit Breaker Monitor

CBM Capacity Benefit Margin (procedures)

CBMAS Circuit Breaker Monitoring Analysis System

CBR Circuit Breaker Recorder

CC (current) Close Coil (current)

CCEMC Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation

CCET The Center for the Commercialization of Electrical Technologies

CCT Communication Configuration Tool

CCVT Capacitively Coupled Voltage Transformer

CDC Comon Data Classes

CDMA Code Division Multiple Access

CDR Continuous Disturbance Recording

CEA Canadian Electricity Association

CEIDS Consortium for Electric Infrastructure to Support a Digital Society

CELID Customers Experiencing Longest Interruption Durations

CEMA Calgary Emergency Management Agency

CEMI Customers Experiencing Multiple Interruptions

CEMMI Customers Experiencing Multiple Momentary Interruptions

CEP Complex Event Processing

CERT Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions

CET Configuration Engineering Tool

CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics

CFEI Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator

CFIB Canadian Federation of Independent Business

CFL Centralized Fault Location

CFT Chash Flow Testing

CHOA Canadian Heavy Oil Association

CHP Combined Heat & Power

CHR Critical Health Risk

CI Cyber Infrastructure

CIA Cascade Integration Architecture

CID Configured IED Description (IEC 61850)

CIGRE International Council on Large Electric Systems

CIM Common Information Model

CIMAEN Common Information Model of the Alberta Electric Network

CIMIM Common Information Model Interface Module

CIP Critical Infrastructure Protection

CISC Complex Instruction Set Computing

CityGML City Geography Markup Language

CLK Clock or Timing Source

CM Condition Monitoring

CMC Certified Management Consultant

CME Canadian Manufactures & Exporters

CMI Customer Minutes of Interruption

CML Customer Minutes Lost

CMP Congestion Management Protocol

CMP Compliance Monitoring Program (@ AESO)

CMR Conductor Monitored Rating (temperature measurement for DLR calculation)

CNG Compressed Natural Gas

CNP CenterPoint Energy

COE Cost of Energy (Homer)

COMFEDE Common Format for Event Data Exchange

COMNAME Common Format for Naming Time Sequence Data Files

COMTRADE Common Format for Transient Data Exchange

COR Certificate of Recognition

COS Change Of State

CPF Continuous Power Flow (method)

CPN Customer Premises Network

CPP Critical-Peak Pricing

CPRI Central Power Research Institute

CPU central processing unit

CRA Canada Revenue Agency

CRC16 16-bit cyclic redundancy check

CRISP Critical Infrastructure for Sustainable Power

CRM Customer Relationship Management

CRT Cathode Ray Tube

CRU Capital Replacement and Upgrades

CS Carrier Send

CSC Construction Specifications Canada

CSC Commercially Significant Constraint (Oncor)

CSCTG Smart Grid Cyber Security Coordination Task Group

CSDER Communication Services for Distributed Energy Resources (DER)

CSEISMIC Complete System-Level Efficient and Interoperable Solution for Microgrid Integrated Controls

CSI Construction Specifications Institute

CSMA/CD collision sensing multiple access/collision detection

CSP Curtail Service Provider

CSPE Chloro-Sulfonated Polyethylene (also known as Hypalon®)

CSRC Computer Security Resource Center

CSWG SGIP Cyber Security Working Group

CT Current Transducer

CT Current Transformer

CTC Concurrent Technologies Corporation

CTI Critical Transmission Infrastructure

CT-IAP Communications Technology Interoperability Architectural Perspective

CTO Chief Technology Officer

CVPP Commercial Virtual Power Plant

CVR Conservation Voltage Reduction

CVT Capacitor Voltage Transformer

CWP Construction Work Package

DA Data Access

DA Distribution Automation

DALI Digitaly Addressable Lighting Interface (IEC60929 and IEC62386)

DAM Day Ahead Market

DAP Distribution Access Point

DAU Data Acquisition Unit

DB Data Bus

DB9 D-shaped subminiature electrical connector (shieled against electromagnetic interference) DE-9

DBM Design Basis Memorandum

DBMS Database Management System

DC Direct Current

DCR Dispatched (and Accepted) Contingency Reserve

DCS Distributed Control Systems

DDE Dynamic Data Exchange

DDNS Dynamic Domain Name System

DDR Dynamic Disturbance Recorder

DDS Dispatch Down Service

DDST Dispatch Decision Supporting Tool

DEC Decremental (DEC) reserves

DECC Distributed Energy Control and Communication (Lab at ORNL)

DED Detailed Engineering Design

DER Distributed Energy Resources (synonym - DR - Distributed Resources)

DER-CAM Distributed Energy Resources - Customer Addoption Model

DERMS Distributed Energy Resources Management System

DER-OM Distributed Energy Resources - Object Model

DES Data Encryption Standard (new is AES)

DEW Distributed Engineering Workstation

DEWG (SG) domain expert working groups

DFACTS Distributed FACTS

DFL Dedicated Fault Location

DFO Distribution Facility Owner

DFR Digital Fault Recorder

DFRA Digital Fault Recorder Analysis

DFT Discrete Fourier Transform

DG Distributed Generation

DGM Distribution Grid Management

DGPS Differential Global Positioning Satellite (system)

DGT Distributed Generation Trip (control from GE)

DHA Digital Home Alliance

DHC Dystrict Heating & Cooling

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DHS Department of Homeland Security

DISCO Distribution Company

DKMF Dedicated Key Management Function

DLC Direct Load Control

DLIF DISTORTING LOAD INFORMATION SHEET

DLL Dynamic Link Library

DLMS Distribution Line Message Specification

DLR Dynamic Line Ratting

DMAIC Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control

DME Disturbance Monitoring Equipment

DMS Distribution Management System

DMWG Disturbance Monitoring Work Group (of the WECC)

DMZ Demilitarized Zone (PCs directly connected online)

DNA (Schneider Electric OASYS) Dynamic Network of Applications

DNI Direct Normal Irradiance (solar, Homer)

DNO Distribution Network Operator

DNP3 Distributed Network Protocol (level 3)

DNS Domain Name Server

DOD Department of Defence

DOE Department of Energy

DOS Demand Opportunity Service

DP Dynamic Pricing

DPI Double-Point Information

DPR Digital Protection Relay

DPRA Digital Protective Relay Analysis

DPS Digital process System

DR Demand Response

DRGS Distributed Renewables, Generators, and Storage

DRI Demand Responsive Infrastructure

DRMS Demand Response Management System

DS Distributed Storage

D-S (The) Dumpster-Shafer Evidence Theory

DS&TR Design Safety & Technical Risk

DSA Dynamic Security Assessment

DSAS Digital Substation Automation System

DSC Differential Scanning Calorimeter

DSCADA Distribution supervisory control and data acquisition

DSIT Dynamic System Identification Toolbox

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSM Demand Side Management

DSM Dynamic System Monitor

DSP Digital Signal Processing

DSR Distributed Series Reactor

DSS Decision Support System

DTA Doble Test Assistant

DTAF Doble Test Assistant Field (system) (Doble Engineering)

DTLR Dynamic Thermal Line Rating

DTS Demand Transmission Service

DTS Dispatcher Training Simulator

DTT Direct Transfer Trip

DWH Data Warehouse

DWML Digital Weather Mark-up Language

DWT Digital Wavelet Transform

EA Energy Automation

EAB Elongation at Break

EAI Enterprise Application Integration

EAM Enterprice Asset Management

EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol

EC Energization Checklist

ECM Enterprise Content Management

ECOST Expected Customer Interruption Cost

ECP Electrical Connection Point

ECUC (Alberta's) Electrical and Communication and Utility Code

ECWG Electronic Commerce Working Group

ED Economic Dispatch

EDA Event Driven Architecture

EDA Enterprise Disturbance Analytics (OpenEDA)

EDD Electrical Distribution Design

EDL Exchange Data Language

EDLC Electric Dual Layer Capacitor

EDS Electrical Design Service

EE Energy Efficiency

EEBuilding Energy Efficient Building

EHS Environmental Health Safety

EHT Electrical Heat Tracing

EHV Extra High Voltage

EIPP Eastern Interconnection Phasor Program

EIPP Eastern Interconnection Phasor Project

EIRAG Eastern Interconnection Reliability Assessment Group

EISA Energy Independence and Security Act (US Congress)

EM Energy Management

EMC Electromagnetic Compatibility

EMCS Utility/Energy Management and Control Systems

EMF Electromagnetic Field

EMI Electromagnetic Interference

eMIX Energy Market Information Exchange

EMMO Energy Market Merit Order

EMS Emergency Management System

EMS Energy Management System

EMSK Extensible Master Session Key

EMTDC Electromagnetic Transients including DC

EMTP ElectroMagnetic Transients Program

ENV Environmental Data

EOVT Electro-Optical Voltage Transformers

EPDM Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer

EPMO Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (AESO)

EPR Ethylene Propylene Rubber

EPRI Electric Power Research Institute

EPROM erasable programmable read-only memory

EPS Electric Power System

ERC Executive Rules Committee (AESO)

ERCB Energy Resource Conservation Board (Alberta)

ERCOT Electric Reliability Organization of Texas

ERM Enterprise Resource Management

ERO Electrical Reliability Organization

ERP Enterprise Resource Planning

ERT Estimated Restauration Time

ES Energy Storage

ES Expert System (ES setting)

ESA Electrical Signature Analysis

ESB Enterprise Service Bus

ESC Electricity Supply Chain (Smart Grid)

ESD Emergency Shut Down (Philosophy)

ESD Engineering Scope Document

ESDD Equivalent Salt Deposit Density

ESE Enhanced System Estimator

ESI Energy Services Interface

ESM Enterprise Semantic Model

ESP Energy Service Provider

ESPRIT Estimation of Signal Parameters via Rotational Invariance Techniques

ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute

ETL Extraction Transformation Loading

EUA Electric Utilities Act (Alberta)

EUB (Alberta) Energy & Utility Board (split into ERCB and AUC)

EUMD End Use Measurement Device

EV Electric Vehicle

EVA Ethylene Vinyl Acetate

EVSE Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment

EWP Engineering Work Package

FACDS flexible AC distribution systems (FACDS)

FACTS Flexible AC Transmission Systems

FAFL Fault Analysis including Fault Location

FAN Field Area Network

FAT Factory Acceptance Testing

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

FCC Federal Communications Commission

FCR Frequency Control Reserves

FCV Fuel Cell Vehicle

FDEMS Frequency Dependent Electromagnetic Sensing

FDEMS Facility DER energy management systems

FDIR Fault Detection Isolation & Restoration

FDISR Fault Detection, Isolation, and service Restoration

FE FirstEnergy

FEED Front End Engineering Design

FEOC Fair, Efficient and Open Competition (Regulation)

FEP Front End Processor

FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

FES Flywheel Energy Storage

FI Future Internet

FIDVR Fault Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery (event)

FIPA Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (obsolete?)

FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards

FIR Final Impulse Response

FL Fault Locator

FLA Full Load Amps

FLE Fault Location Engine (OpenFLE)

FLISR Fault Location, Isolation and Supply Restoration

FLR Front, Lateral, Rear (switchgear arc resistive functionalities)

FM Frequency modulation

FME (The) Feature Manipulation Engine

FMEA failure modes and effect analysis

FNCF Flow Network Contribution Factor

FOA Funding Opportunity Announcement

FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array

FPL Florida Power & Light Company

FS Functional Specification

FSC Federal Supply Codes

FT Factory Test

FTIR Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

FTP File Transfer Protocol

GAL Generic Array Logic

GC General Conditions

GENCO Generation Company

GEP Gateway Exchange Protocol

GHG Greenhouse Gases

GHI Global Horizontal Irradiance (solar, Homer)

GID Generic Interface Definitions

GIS Gas Insulated Switchgear

GIS Geographic Information Systems

GIS Geospatial Information System

GML Geography Markup Language

GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System

GOMSFE Generic Object Model for Substation and Feeder Equipment

GOOSE Generic Object Oriented Substation Event

GPR Ground Potential Rise

GPRS General Packet Radio Service

GPU Graphics Processing Unit

GRC Governance, Risk and Compliance

GSA General Services Administration

GSM Global System for Mobile (Communications)

GSSE Generic Substation State Events

GTA General Tariff Application

GTO Gate Turn-Off (thyristor)

GUI Graphical User Interface

GWAC (The) Grid Wise Architecture Council (a.k.a. GWAC Interoperability stack)

HAN Home Area Network

HAN SRS Home Area Network System Requirements SpecificationHBES Home and Building Electronic System

HBT High-speed Bus Transfer

HD Hard Disc

HDL Hardware Description Language

HE Hour Ending

HEEA Hydro and Electric Energy Act

HELINKS STS HELINKS System Tool Set (for 61850 system engineering design)

HES Home Electronic System

HID High Intensity Discharge (lamp)

HIZ High Impedance Fault Detector

HMI Human Machine Interface

HPFF High-pressure, fluid-filled pipe (type of underground cable)

HPGF High-pressure, gas-filled pipe (type of underground cable)

HSB Hot Stand-By

HSE Health Safety and Environment

HST Historian

HTLS High Temperature Low Sag (Conductor)

HTML Hyper Text Mark-up Language

HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

HVAC Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning

I&C Instrumentation and Control

I/O Inputs/Outputs

IAC Internal Arc Classification

IAN Industrial Area Network

IAP Interoperability Architectural Perspective

IAS Industry Applications Society

IATFF Information Assurance Technical Framework Forum

ICCP Inter Control Centre Protocol (communication between master Centers)

ICD IED Capability Description (file - IEC 61850)

ICE Instrumentation, Controls, and Electrical

ICEA Insulated Cable Engineers Association

ICS Incident Command System

ICS Industrial Control Systems

ICS InterConnection System (IEEE1547 DER standard)

ICT Information and communication technologies

ICW IntelliCAT for Windows

ID Information Document (AESO)

IDE Integrated Development Environment

IDER Integrated Distributed Energy Resources (with Demand Response)

IDS Intrusion Detection Systems

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

IECSA Integrated Energy and Communications Systems Architecture

IED Intelligent Electronic Device

IEE Institution of Electrical Engineers

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

IEEE PES IEEE Power & Energy Society

IEEE-RTS IEEE-Reliability Test System

IESO Independent Electricity System Operator (Ontario)

IET Integrated Engineering Tool

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IFAS Intelligent Feeder Automation System (Feeder IED)

IFC Issued for Construction

IHD In-Home Display

IID Instantiated IED Description (IEC 61850)

ILRAS interruptible load remedial action scheme

IM Instant Message

IM Interface Module

IMS Islanding Management System

IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem

IMS Information Management Systems (IMS)

IMS Islanding Management System

INC Incremental (INC) reserves

INL Idaho National Laboratory

INPO Institute for Nuclear Power Operations

IOS Import Opportunity Service

IOSS Interagency OPSEC Support Staff

IOU Investors Owned Utility

IP Internet Protocol

IP3 Third-order Intercept Point

IPCAA Industrial Power Consumers Association of Alberta

IPCC Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (United Nations)

IPP Independent Power Producers

IPR Intellectual Property Rights

IPSec Internet Protocol Security

IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6

IR Infrared (imaging Thermography)

IR Insulation Resistance

IRIG Inter Range Instrumentation Group (time codes A, B, C, D, E, G, H - pulses per second)

IRM Interface Reference Model

IRP Integrated Resource Planning

IS Integrated Systems

ISA Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society

ISA The International Society of Automation

ISD In Service Date

ISD Industrial System Designates

ISD Inter-Site Data

ISDB Identification in Substation Data Base

ISO Independent System Operator

ISO International Organization for Standardization

ISP Internet Service Provider

IT Information Technology

ITA Industrial Technical Assistance

ITAP Inspection, Testing, and Acceptance Plan

IT-IAP Information Technology Interoperability Architectural Perspective

ITIC Information Technology Industry Council (old name CBEMA)

ITP Interregional Transmission Project

ITP Internal Test Program

ITP Inspection and Test Plan

ITT Integrated Testing Tool (ABB)

ITU International Telecommunication Union

IVM Integrated Visualisation Manager

IVR Interactive Voice Response

IVVC Integrated Volt/VAr Control

JEA Jacksonville Electric Authority

JOP Joint Operation Procedure

JSIS (WECC) Joint Synchronized Information Subcommittee

KCP&L Kansas City Power and Light

KEG Keephills-Ellerslie-Genesee (KEG transmission loop)

KID Kananaskis Improvement District

KPI Key Performance Indicators

KPI Key Point of Interoperability

KSF Key Success Factors

KVM Keyboard, Video or Visual Display Unit, Mouse (switch)

LAN Local Area Network

LCD Liquid Crystal Display

LDC Line Drop Compensation

LEC Lanner Electronics Launches (Communication Gateways)

LED Light Emitting Diode

LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

LER Licensee Event Report

LGC Scheme Logic

LGIP Large Generator Interconnection Procedure

LIA Land Impact Assessment

LiDAR Light Detection And Ranging

LIPA Long Island Power Authority

LIRA Line Resonance Analysis

LLTE Long Lead Time Energy

LMP Locational Marginal Pricing

LMS Load Management System

LN Logical Node

LNG Liquefied Natural Gas

LOA Level of Assurance

LOCA Loss of Coolant Accident

LOD Level of Detail

LOE Letter of Enquiry

LOLP Loss of Load Probability

LON Local Operating Network

LPM Linear Prediction Model

LSS Load Shed Services

LTC Load Tap Changer

LTO Lont Term Outlook

LTRA Long Term Reliability Assessment

LV Low Voltage

LVRT Low-Voltage Ride-Through

M&D Monitoring and Diagnostics

M&V Measure & Verify (NAESB)

M&VWG Monitoring & Validation Work Group (of the WECC)

M2M Machine to Machine

MAC Market Advisory Committee

MAC Media Access Control

MAIFI Momentary Average Interruption Frequency Index

MAM Maximum Authorized MW

MAS Multi-Agent System

MASP Master Area Structure Plan

MATL LLP Montana Alberta Tie Line LLP

MBPS Mega Bits Per Second

MC Maximum Capability

MC Metal Clad (MC) switchgear

MCD Momentary Change Detect

MCR Maximum Continuous Rating

MDMS Meter Data Management System

MDS Mobile Decentralized Storage

MEI Metal Encolsed Interrupter (switchgear assemblies)

MESA Modular Energy Storage Architecture

MET Substation Metering

MFC Microsoft Foundation Class (used in PSCAD)

MFR Minimum Filing Requirements

MFR Multilevel Feeder Reconfiguration

MGC Microgrid Customer

MGI Modern Grid Initiative

MIB Management Information Base

MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MISO Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO)

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MLI Maximum Loadability Index

MMP Milestones and Monitoring Process

MMS Manufacturing Messaging Specification

MMS Market Management System

MOCT Mechanism-operated contact (within switchgear)

MOCT Magneto-Optical Current Transformers

MOD Modeling Data Analysis (NERC)

MOD Motor Operated Disconnects

MOV Metal Oxide Varistor

MOV Motor Operated Valve

MPAC Modular Protection and Control

MPDR Measurement Point Definition Record

MPLS Multiprotocol label switching

MRP Manufacturing Resource(s) Planning

MRQ Material ReQuisition (Congestion management (ATC, PTDF, OTDF, OPF)

MRTU Market Redesign and Technology Upgrade

MS Master Station

MSA Market Surveillance Administrator

MSCONS Metered Services Consumption Report Message

MSK Master Session Key

MSSLI Maximum Steady State Load Increase

MSW Municipal Solid Waste

MTBF Mean Time Between Failure

MTCE Maintenance

MTO Make to Order

MTTF Mean Time to Failure

MTTR Mean Time to Repair

MU Merging Unit

MUSIC Multiple Signal Classification (model)

MUX Multiplexer

MV Medium Voltage

MWH Montgomery Watson and Harza

MWM Mobile Workforce Management

NAESB North American Energy Standards Board

NAICS North American Industry Classification System

NAN Neighbourhood Area Network

NARUC National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

NASPI North American SynchroPhasor Initiative

NASPInet North America SynchroPhasor Initiative Network

NAT Network Address Translation

NBA Network Behaviour Analysis

NCC Network Control Center

NCF Network Contribution Factor

NEB National Energy Board (Canada)

NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers Association

NERC North-American Electric Reliability Corporation

NERC North-American Electric Reliability Council

NESC National Electrical Safety Code

NETL National Energy Technology Laboratory

NETSS New Electricity Transmission Software Solutions

NIAP National Information Assurance Partnership

NID Needs Identification Document

NIM Network Interface Module

NIPP National Infrastructure Protection Plan

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

NNR Nearest Neighbours Rule

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPC Net Present Cost (software Homer)

NPCC Northeast Power Coordinating Council

NPI New Product Introduction

NPRDS Nuclear Plant Reliability Data System

NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NRECA National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

NREE Natural Resources, Energy and Environment

NRT Net Radiation Temperature

NSA National Security Agency

NSDD Non-soluble deposit density

NSERC Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

NSF National Science Foundation (USA)

NSIC Negative-Sequence Impedance Controller

NSM Network and System Management

NSMG-Net NSERC Smart Microgrid Network

NSP Negotiated Settlement Process (Alberta Utility Commission)

NTC Net Transmission Capacity

NTC Nominal Transfer Capability

NTP Network Time Protocol

NTP Network Timing Protocol

NTTAA National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act,

NTTRC National Transmission Technology Research Center

NYISO New York Independent System Operator

NYPA New York Power Authority

OASIS Open Access Same Time Information Systems

OASIS Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards

OASyS Object-oriented Adventure System

OATI Open Access Technology International Inc

OBIEC (THE) OBJECTIVE BASED INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICAL CODE

OCC Operational Control Center

OCC Omicron Control Center

ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity

ODE Ordinary Differential Equation

OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer

OFC Oil Field Commander

OFGEM (the) Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (in UK)

OFLA Optimized Fault Location Algorithm

OGC Open Geospatial Consortium

OGF Open Grid Forum

OH&S Occupational Health and Safety (act)

OHSW Over-Head Shield Wire

OI Open Item

OID Object Identifier

OITM Oxidation Induction Time

OITP Oxidation Induction Temperature

OLE Object Linking and Embedding

OLTC On-Load Tap Changing (Transformer)

OMG Object Management Group

OMS Outage Management System

OO Object Oriented (Analysis)

Op.Res. Operating Reserve

OPC Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) for Process Control

OPC-HDA OPC- Historical Data Access

OPC-UA OPC- Unified Architecture

OpenADE Open Assembly Design Environment

OpenADR Open Automated Demand Response (Communications)

OpenEDA Open Enterprise Disturbance Analytics

OpenFLE Open Fault Location Engine

OpenFMB Open Field Measage Bus

OpenGL Open Graphic Library

OpenSG Open Smart Grid

OPF Optimal Power Flow

OPGW Optical Power Ground Wire

OPM Object Process Methodology

OPP Operating Policies and Procedures

ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory

OS Operating System

OSG Open Smart Grid

OSI Open Systems Interconnection (Reference Model ISO/IEC 7498-1)

OSI PI Open Systems Interconnection Performance Indicator

OSS Open Source Software

OT Operations Technology

OTDF Outage Transfer Distribution Factor

OTDR Optical Time Domain Reflectometry

OWASP Open Web Application Security Project

OWL Web Ontology Language

P&ID Piping & Instrumentation Diagram

P&ID Process & Instrumentation Diagram

P&L Permit & License

P&L Production & Logistics

P&L Profit & Loss

PADDL Phase Angle Difference Dynamic Limits

PAES Pareto Archived Evolutionary Strategy

PAM Phase Angle Monitoring

PAR Phase Angle Regulator (or Phase Angle Regulating Transformer or quadrature booster) (also see PST)

PAS Publicaly Available Specification

PBX Private Branch Exchange

PC (AESO) Project Coordinator

PCC Point of Common Coupling

PCM Protection Control and Monitoring

PDAC Phasor Data Acquisition and Control

PDC Phasor Data Concentrator

PDUP Project Data Update Package

PE Parameter Estimation

PE Polyethylene

PE Protection Engineer

PEV Plug-in Electric Vehicles

PF Powerflow

PG Phasor Gateway

PG&E Pacific Gas & Electric

PHEV Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle

PHS Pumped Hydroelectric Storage

PI Potential Incidents

PI Plant Information

PI Performance Indicator

PI Polarization Index

PII Personally Identifiable Information

PIP Participant Involvement Program (AESO)

PJM Pennsylvania New Jersey Maryland

PLC Power Line Carrier

PLC Programmable Logic Controller

PLP Preformed Line Products

PLS-CADD Power Line Systems - Computer Aided Design and Drafting

PLT Power Line Telemetry

PLT Power Line Telephony

PLT Power Line Technician

PM Preventive Maintenance

PMI Project Management Institute

PMO Project Management Office

PMU Phasor Measurement Unit

PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PoD Point of Delivery

PODS Pipeline Open Data Standard (see APDM)

POI Point of Interconnection

POSIX Portable Operating System Interface

POU Program Organization Unit

PowerPC Power Performance Computing (RISC - Reduced Instruction Set Computer)

PPS Power System Stabilizer

PPS Proposal to Provide Service

PPSM Portable Power System Monitor

PQDIF Power Quality Data Interchange Format (IEEE standard)

PQM Power Quality Monitor

PQR Power Quality & Reliability

PROM Programmable Read-Only Memory

PRP Parallel Redundancy Protocol

PSAC Petroleum Services Association of Canada

PSCAD Power System Computer Aided Design

PSERC Power Systems Engineering Research Center

PS-IAP Power Systems Interoperability Architectural Perspective

PSLF Positive Sequence Load Flow

PSLF Power System Load Flow

PSM Power System Measurements

PSM Power System Model (Management- AESO)

PSM Power System Monitor

PSS Power System Stabilizer

PSS Power System Simulator

PSS/E Power System Simulator for Engineering

PST Phase Shifting Transformer (or phase angle regulating transformer or quad booster) (Also, see PAR)

PST Personal Store

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

PSTT Performance Standards Task Team

PT Potential Transformer

PTDF Power Transfer Distribution Factor

PTI Power Technologies Incorporated (PTI format)

PTL Protection Testing Library

Pub/Sub Publish–Subscribe (Technology)

PUC Public Utility Commission

PVC Polyvinyl Chloride

PVP Product Verification Plan

PVTF Performance Validation Task Force

PW Power World

PWG Performance Work Group

QA Quality Assurance

QOS Quality of Service

RA RingDown Analysis

RACI Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed.

RAID redundant array of inexpensive disks or redundant array of independent disks

RAND/FRAND Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory / Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory

RAS Remedial Action Scheme

RBAC Role Based Access Control

RC Reliability Coordinator (Coordination)

RCA Root Cause Analysis

RCFA Root Cause Failure Analysis

RCM Reliability Centered Maintenance

RDF Resource Description Framework

REA Rural Electrification Association Ltd.

REC Renewable energy certificates

REF Restricted Earth Fault

REP Retail Energy Providers

RES Renewable Energy Source

RF Radio Frequency

RFC Request for Comments, Remote Feedback Controller

RFO Ready For Operation (ON-Line Tracking system for Commissioning Process)

RFS Request for Service

RIO Remote Input/ Output Device

RMS Resource Management System

ROCOF Rate Of Change Of Frequency

ROI Return Of Investment

ROM Read-Only Memory

ROSE Region Of Stability Existence

RPG Report Program Generator

RRO Regional Reliability Organization

RRO Regulated Rate Option

RSA Rivest, Shamir, Adelman

RSAW Reliability Standard Audit Worksheet (@ AESO, NERC)

RSS Really Simple Syndication

RSTP Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w)

RSTP Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1W standard)

RTC Real-Time Transfer Capability

RTCA Real Time Contingency Analysis

RTD Resistance temperature Detector

RTDMS Real-Time Dynamics Monitoring Systems

RTO Regional Transmission Operator

RTO Regional Transmission Organization

RTP Real Time Playback

RTP Real-Time Pricing

RTU Remote Telemetry Unit

RTU Remote Terminal Unit

RTU Remote Terminal Unit / Data Concentrator

RWT Recursive Wavelet Transform

S Status (contact) inputs

S Set (input in latch circuit) (combined with R = ReSet input)

SA Substation Assistant

SA Substation Automation

SA Selective Availability (GPS)

SAB Station Automation Builder

SAD Station Alarm Device

SAGD Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage

SAIDI System Average Interruption Duration Index

SAIFI System Average Interruption Frequency Index

SAP Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung (German)

SAP Systems, Applications and Products (unofficial translation of German abbreviation)

SARI System Average Restoration Index (SAIDI / SAIFI) Sustained Interruptions

SAS Statistical Analysis System (corporation)

SAS Substation Automation System

SAS System Access Service (Agreement)

SASR System Access Service Request (AESO)

SAT Site Acceptance Testing

SATR Southern Alberta Transmission Reinforcement

SAW Surface Acoustic Wave (one of DRL solutions)

SBO Select Before Operate

SC Substation Computer

SC System Controller

SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

SCB Series Capacitor Banks

SCC System Control Center (AESO)

SCC SCADA Control Center

SCD Substation Configuration Description

SCE Southern California Edison

SCED Security-Constrained Econnomic Dispatch

SCFF Self-contained fluid-filled (type of underground cable)

SCIL Supervisory Control Implementation Language

SCL Series Compensated Lines

SCL Site Construction Language

SCL Substation Configuration Language

SCP Secure Copy Protocol

SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol

SCUC Security-constrained Unit Commitment

SDAT Site Delivery Acceptance Test

SDD Salt Deposit Density

SDK Software Development Kit

SDLC Systems Development Life Cycle

SDMZ Secure Demilitarized Zone (PCs directly connected online)

SDO Standards Development Organization

SDTC Sustainable Development Technology Canada

SE State Estimator

SECOR Small Empoyer Certificate of Recognition

SEL Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

SEP UML Statechart Execution Persistence UML

SEP2 Smart Energy Profile 2.0

SER Sequence of Events Recorder

SET SCL engineering Tool

SFR System Feedback Report

SFRA Sweep Frequency Response Analysis (Doble Engineering)

SFTP Secure FTP

SG Smart Grid

SGAC SGIP Smart Grid Architecture Council

SGAM Smart Grid Architecture Model (Framework)

SGCG Smart Grid Coordination Group (Europe)

SGDP Smart Grid Development Program

SGEC Smart Grid Evaluation Criteria

SGER Specified gas emitters regulation (Alberta Environment)

SGIRM Smart Grid Interoperability Reference Model

SGS Smarter Grid Solutions

SGTCC Smart Grid Testing & Certification Committee (SGIP)

SHA Secure Hash Algorithm

ShCB Shunt Capacitor Banks

SHEPD Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution

SI Sustained Interruption

SIA (SG) Standards Interoperability Assessment

SIG 3D Special Interest Group 3D

SIM Subscriber Identity Module (SIM card)

SIPS System Integrity Protection Schemes

SIS Safety Instrumented System

SKB (SG) Standards Knowledge Base

SLC Salt Lake City

SLIM Software Lifecycle Management

SLM (SG) Standards Landscape Map

SMB Small and Medium Business (=SME)

SME Small and Midsize Enterprise (=SMB)

SMERC Smart Grid Energy Research Center (UCLA SMERC)

SMP Substation Modernization Platform (Cooper Power System)

SMS Short Messaging System

SMT Sensor for Measuring Temperature

SMT System Management Tool (Part of Schneider Electric - PACiS)

SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol

SNTP Simple Network Time Protocol

SOA Service Oriented Architecture

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol (later addopted by W3C)

SOE Sequence Of Events

SOL System Operation Limits

SONET Synchronous Optical Network Technologies

SOS System of Systems

SOTC Standards Oversight and Technology Committee ( @ NERC)

SOTF Switch On To Fault

SP Special Publication

SPA Standing Phase Angle

SPASE Synchrophasor Assisted State Estimation

SPDC Super Phasor Data Concentrator

SPE Society of Petroleum Engineers

SPI Single-Point Information

SPIDERS Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security

SPS Special Protection System (Remedial Action Scheme)

SPTR Single Pole Trip and Reclose

SQL Structured Query Language

SR Silicone Rubber

SRD Sustainable Resource Development

SRP Salt River Project

SSA Small Signal Analysis

SSC Structures, Systems, and Components

SSD System Specification Description

SSH Secure Shell

SSL Secure Sockets Layer

SSO Single Sign-On

SSO Standards-Setting Organization

SSP Sector-Specific Plan

SSSV Substation Switching Sequences Verification

STA Short Term Adequacy

STATCOM STATic Synchronous COMpensator, a.k.a "STATCON"

STATCON STATic Synchronous CONdenser

STFT Short Time Fourier Transform

STRI Swedish Transmission Research Institute

STS Supply Transmission Service

SV Sampled Value

SVC Static Var Compensator

SVC SuperVision Concept

SW Software

SWAT Software Analysis and Testing

SWAT Solutions with Advanced Technologies

SWC Surge Withstand Capability

SWOT Strengths Weaknesses/Limitations Opportunities and Threats

SysML Systems Modeling Language

TASE.2 Telecontrol Application Service Element 2 (IEC 60870-6/ TASE.2)

TASMo Transmission System Object Model

TBDLM Transmission Bus Distribution Load Model

TC Trip Coil (current)

TCM Transmission Constraints Management

TCM Trip Circuit Monitor

TCO Truck-operated contact (switches)

TCP Transmission Control Protocol

TCP Transport Control Protocol

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

TCPST Thyristor-Controlled Phase Shifting Transformer

TCR Thyristor Controlled Reactor

TCRS Transmission Cost Recovery Subcommittee

TCSC Thyristor-Controlled Series Capacitor

TCSC Thyristor Controlled Series Compensator

TCVR Thyristor-Controlled Voltage Regulator

TDM Time-division multiplexing

TDR Time Domain Reflectometry

TE Transmission Engineering

TFAA Transformer Fault Analysis Assistant

TFO Transmission Facility Owner

TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TIA Telecommunications Industry Association

TIA Totally Integrated Automation (Siemens)

TimeSeriesML Time Series Mark-up Language

TMDR Transmission Modeling Data Requirements

TMR Transmission Must Run

TNG Total Net Generation

TNSP Transmission Network Service Provider (Australia)

TOA Transformer Oil Analysis (Delta-X Research)

TOAD Transition of Authoritative Documents (project)

TOGAF The Open Group Architecture Framework

TOP Transmission OPerator

TOR Terms Of Reference

TOSO Turn-ON-Shot-Off

TOSS Transmission Outage Statistics System

TOU Time-Off-Use (rate)

TRANSCO Transmission Company

TRCA Real-Time Contingency Analysis

TRE Texas Reliability Entity

T-Reg Transmission Regulation (

TRIF Total Recordable Incident Frequency

TRO Transmission Reliability Organization

TRV Transient Recovery Voltage

TRVSA Real-Time Voltage Stability Analysis

TSAPM Transient Stability Analysis by Pattern Matching

TSC Thyristor Switched Capacitor

TSD Time Sequence Data File

TSO Transmission System Operator

TSP Transmission System Provider

TSSE Two-Stage State Estimation

TT Transfer Trip

TTC Transmission Transfer Capability (see ATC)

TTC Total Transfer Capability (see ATC, and TCC second definition)

TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

TVE Total Vector Error

TVPP Technical Virtual Power Plant

TWS FL Traveling Wave Fault Location

UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter

UCA Utilities Consumer Advocate

UCA Utility Communications Architecture (International)

UCAIug UCA International Users Group

UCLA University of California, Los Angeles

UCTE The Union for the Co-ordination of Transmission of Electricity

UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (pronounced Yu-diː)

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UDS Unit Dispatch System

UFLS Underfrequency Load Shedding

UHF Ultra High Frequency

UID Universal Identifier

UKMF Unified Key Management Function

ULTC Under-Load Tap Changer

UML Unified Modeling Language

UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply

UR Universal Relay

URL Uniform Resource Locator

USA Uniform System Of Accounts

UTC Coordinated Universal Time

UTC The Utilities Telecom Council

UTI University Technology International

UTM Universal Transverse Mercator

UTP Unshielded Twisted Pair

UV Ultra Violet (Corona)

UVLS Undervoltage Load Shedding

UWIG Utility Wind Integration Group

VA Volt-amperes

VAR Volt Amps Reactive

VBA Visual Basic For Application

VC Venture Capital

VCE Vegetation Control Easement

VCR Vacuum Circuit Breaker

VDU Video Display Unit

VG Variable Generation (wind, solar...)

VHDL VHSIC Hardware Description Language

VHSIC Very-high-speed integrated circuits

VI Vulnerability Index

VID Visual Interactive Distributed

VIP Voltage Instability Predictor

VLAN Virtual Local Area Network

VPLS Virtual Private LAN Service

VPN Virtual Private Network

VPP Virtual Power Plant

VSA Voltage Sensitivity Analysis

VSAT Very Small Aperture Terminal

VSC Voltage Source Converter

VSDB Verification in Substation Data Base

VSI Voltage Stability Index

VT Voltage Transducer

VVO Volt/Var Optimization

VVWC Voltage, VAR, and Watt Control

W3C World Wide Web Consortium

W3DS Web 3D ServiceWADE World Alliance for Decentralized Energy

WAMACC Wide Area Monitoring, Automation, Communications and Control

WAMPAC Wide-Area Monitoring, Protection and Control

WAMPACC Wide Area Monitoring, Protection, Automation, Communications, and Control

WAMS Wide Area Measurement System

WAMS Wide Area Monitoring System

WAMV Wide-Area Monitoring and Visualization

WAN Wide Area Network

WAPA Western Area Power Administration

WAPS Wide Area Protection System

WASA Wide Area Situational Awareness

WaterML Water Mark-up Language

WATTS Wide Area Time Sampling System

WECC Western Electric Coordinating Council

WEDO Workforce Engineering Design Optimization

WG Working Group

WinCC Windows Control Center (Siemens)

WINIGS Integrated Grounding System Analysis program for Windows

WISP Western Interconnection Synchrophasor Project

WISP Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform

WMS Work Management System

WOC WAN Optimization Controller

WPA Wi-Fi Protected Access

WPF Wind Power Facility

WSCC Western Systems Coordinating Council (predecessor to WECC)

WSP Wireless Service Provider

WTC Wavelet Transform Coefficient

XDA eXtensible Disturbance Analytics

XER XML Encoding Rules

XLPE Cross-linked polyethylene (type of underground cable)

XLPO Cross-Linked Polyolefin

XML eXtensible Mark-up Language

XMPP eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

XOM eXport Opportunity Merchant

XSD XML Schema