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Glossary of Terms

 

A ACoP Approved Code of Practice
  AMR Automatic Meter Read
B BSC Balancing and Settlement Code
BEIS Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
BMS Building Management System
C CCL Climate Change Levy. A tax on energy delivered to non-domestic users in the UK. Its aim is to provide an incentive to increase energy efficiency and to reduce carbon emissions.
CCS Crown Commercial Services G-Cloud 9 Framework Agreement. Pre-tendered framework agreement through which TEAM can offer cloud-based energy management software to public-sector organisations.

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CDM Construction Design and Management Regulation
CIBSE Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
CFD Contract for Difference
CHP Combined Heat and Power
CM Capacity Market. The Capacity Market forms part of the government’s Electricity Market Reform policy. It is intended to incentivise investment in more sustainable, low-carbon electricity capacity at the least cost for energy consumers. This is needed to help secure electricity supplies for the future.
CMU Capacity Market Unit
CMVP Certified Measurement & Verification Professional
CO Carbon Monoxide
CO2 Carbon Dioxide
CoP Code of Practice
CRC Carbon Reduction Commitment

The Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) is an innovative climate change and energy saving scheme for the UK. It will encourage improvements in energy efficiency which can save organisations money. The scheme has been designed to generate a shift in awareness in large organisations especially at senior level, and to drive changes in behaviour and infrastructure.

The scheme is also a central part of the UK’s strategy for controlling our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It will tackle CO2 emissions not already covered by Climate Change Agreements and the EU Emissions Trading System. This will help reduce the country’s carbon footprint to deliver the ambitious emissions reduction targets set in the Government’s Climate Change Act. The scheme started in April 2010.
CT Current Transformer
D DA Data Aggregator – an accredited agent appointed by a supplier to collate and sum meter reading data.
DC Data Collector – agent appointed by a supplier to retrieve and verify meter readings data from electrical meters to include processing, validating and estimating.
DE Decentralised Energy
DEC Display Energy Certificate
DECC Department of Energy and Climate Change
DG Distribution Generation – Generation plant that is connected to a distribution network, i.e. not to the transmission network.
DMP Defined Meter Point
DNO Distribution Network Operator – The owner and operator of the local distribution networks. The DNO holds a distribution licence for the provision of network services in a defined area, including connection to the system, metering and data services.
DoG Deed of Grant
DSO Distribution System Operator
DSR Demand Side Response – involves electricity users varying demand due to changes in the balance between supply and demand, usually in response to price.
DUOS Distribution Use Of System Charges – The DUoS charge covers the cost of receiving electricity from the national transmission system and feeding it directly into homes and businesses through the regional distribution networks. These networks are operated by Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) such as Central Networks. The distribution networks include overhead lines and underground cables, as well as substations and transformers, which reduce the electricity’s voltage to safe levels for use in homes and businesses.

DUoS Tariffs can be found at:
http://www.energynetworks.org/electricity/regulation/commercial-operations-group/charging-structure/use-of-system/duos-charges/distribution-use-of-system-charges.html
E EA Environment Agency
EAC Estimated Annual Consumption
EDI Electronic Data Interchange. A computer-to-computer communication of structural data that allows automatic electronic processing without manual intervention. EDI is the ultimate solution for paperless electronic billing and it is an effective control of utility consumption and costs.
EMR Electricity Market Reform – The EMR is the Government‘s approach to reforming the electricity system to ensure the UK‘s future electricity supply is secure, low-carbon and affordable
ENA Energy Networks Association
EPC Energy Performance Certificate
ESC Electricity Settlements Company or Settlement Body
ESOS Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme

ESOS is a mandatory energy assessment scheme for organisations in the UK that meet the qualification criteria. The Environment Agency is the UK scheme administrator.

Organisations that qualify for ESOS must carry out ESOS assessments every 4 years. These assessments are audits of the energy used by their buildings, industrial processes and transport to identify cost-effective energy saving measures.

Read more about ESOS and TEAM’s ESOS Services
ESS Energy Storage System
ESTA Energy Services and Technology Association
EV Electric Vehicle
 
F FiT Feed-in Tariff – Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) is a UK Government scheme designed to encourage uptake of a range of small-scale renewable and low-carbon electricity generation technologies. introduced on 1 April 2010, under powers in the Energy Act 2008. The UK Government’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) makes the policy decisions about the FITs scheme and are the relevant contact for queries about legislation. The energy regulator Ofgem E-Serve administers the scheme. Visit https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-programmes/fit
 
G GIRS Gas Industry Registration Scheme
GSP Grid Supply Point – mean a meter connection point at which the transmission system is connected to a distribution system.
GT Gas Transporter
GW Gigawatt – A unit of power equal to 1 billion watts; 1 million kilowatts or 1000 megawatts.
GWh Gigawatt hour – A unit of energy equal to million kilowatt-hours. 1 GWh is equivalent to the total electricity typically used by 250 homes in one year.
H HH Half Hourly – means a Metering Point which provides measurements of supply of electricity on a half hourly basis.
HHD Half Hourly Data
HoTs Heads of Terms
HV High Voltage – A voltage exceeding 650 volts. It is the rated voltage above 1kV and medium voltage and is commonly used for distribution systems, with rated voltages above 1kV and generally applied to and including 52kV.
I I&C Industrial and Commercial
  ICP Independent Connections Provider
  IDNO Independent Distributor Network Operator
  IRMA Independent Report on Metering Arrangements
  ITE Independent Technical Expert – Individual experienced to carry out Independent Technical Reports for organisations wanting to enter into the Capacity Market (CM)
K kW Kilowatt – A standard unit of electricity power equal to 1000 watts, or to the energy consumption at a rate of 1000 joules per second.
kWh Kilowatt hour
 
L LEC Levy Exemption Certificate
LOA Letter of Authority
LV Low Voltage
 
M MAM Meter Asset Manager
MAP Meter Asset Provider
MD Maximum Demand
MOA Meter Operator Agent
MPAN Meter Point Administration Number
MPRN Meter Point Reference Number
MS Metering System
MSN Meter Serial Number
MW Mega Watt
MWh Mega Watt hour
N NERS National Electricity Registration Scheme
NG National Grid
NHH Non Half Hourly
NTS National Transmission System
O OAMI Ofgem approved meter installer
Ofgem Office of Gas & Electricity Markets
P PPA Power Purchasing Agreement
PV Photovoltaics
R RHI Renewable Heat Incentive
RO Renewable Obligation
S SaaS Software as a Service
SBS Shared Business Services Framework Agreement. A pre-tendered framework agreement through which NHS and Public-Sector organisations can use TEAM’s Bureau Service.

Read more about TEAM’s SBS Framework Agreement.
T TPI Third Party Intermediary
  Triad The three half hour periods of the highest demand on the transmission system, with at least 10 days between them, from the beginning of November in one year to the end of February in the following year.
  TUoS Transmission Use of System
W W Watt
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