401 WQC Section 401 Water Quality Certification

A

A G&T Generation of Transmission Cooperative



A&G Administrative and General Expenses



AAQS Ambient Air Quality Standards



ABF Aquatic Base Flow



AC Alternating current



ACA Annual Charge Adjustment



ACE Area Control Error

 


ACHP Advisory Council on Historic Preservation



ACRS Accelerated Cost Recovery System



ADIT Accumulated Deferred Income Taxes



ADITC Accumulated Deferred Investment Tax Credit



ADR Asset Depreciation Range or Alternative Dispute Resolution



AFE Authority for Expenditure or Authorization for Expenditure



AFUDC Allowance for Funds Used During Construction



AGA American Gas Association



AGC Automatic Generation Control



AGD Associated Gas Distributors



AI Agricultural Inspector



AIMA Agricultural Impact Mitigation Agreement



AIRFA American Indian Religious Freedom Act



ALJ Administrative Law Judge



AMI Advance Metering Infrastructure



ANGTA Alaskan Natural Gas Transportation Act of 1976



ANGTS Alaskan Natural Gas Transportation System



ANSI American National Standars Institute



AOS Authorized Overrun Service



APA Administrative Procedure Act or Alaska Power Administration



APE Area of potential effect



API The American Petroleum Institute



APPA American Public Power Association



AQCR Air Quality Control Region



ARPA Archeological Resources Protection Act



A/S Ancillary Services



ASAL Atlantic salmon population model developed by FWS



ASCC (Affiliate) Alaskan System Coordination Council



ASRSC Atlantic Sea-Run Salmon Commission



ATC Available Transfer Capability

 

B

BA Balancing Authority



BA Biological Assessment



BACT Best Available Control Technology



BCD Barrels per Calendar Day



Bcf Billion Cubic Feet



BCP Blackstart Capability Plan



BES Bulk Electric System



BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs



BLM Bureau of Land Management



BLM Bureau of Land Management, The Dept. of Interior



BPA Bonneville Power Administration



BPR Bureau of Parks and Recreation



BPS Bulk-Power System



BS&W Bottom sediments of water



BTU British Thermal Unit



BuRec Bureau of Reclamation

 

C

CAA Clean Air Act



CAISO California Independent System Operator Corporation



CAP Capacity Market Programs



CAPM Capital Asset Pricing Model



CBM Capacity Benefit Margin



CD Contract Demand



CD Certificate of Deposit



CEO Chief Executive Officer



CEQ Council on Environmental Quality



CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act



CERCLIS Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System



Certificate Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity



cf Cubic Feet



Cf Compare



CfD Contracts for Differences



CFO Chief Financial Officer



CFR Code of Federal Regulations



CFTC Commodity Future Trade Commission



cfs Cubic Feet Per Second



CIAC Contribution of Aid of Construction



CMVE Competitive Market Value Estimate



CNG Compressed Natural Gas



CO Carbon Monoxide



CO2 Carbon Dioxide



COC Cost of Capital



COO Chief Operating Officer



COE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers



CP Coincident Peak



CP Certificate Proceeding



CPI Consumer Price Index



CPP Critical Peak Pricing



cps Cycles Per Second



CPS Control Performance Standard



CRMP Cultural Resource Management Plans



CRP Conservation Reserve Program



CRT Capacity Reservation Tariff



CSP Curtailment Service Provider



CWA Clean Water Act



CWIP Construction Work In Progress



CZMA Coastal Zone Management Act

 

D

D.B.A. Doing business as



dBA Decibles on the A-weighted scale



DBH Diameter Breast Height



dc Direct Current



DCLM Direct Control Load Management



DCS Disturbance Control Standard



Decontrol Act Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act



DEIS Draft Environmental Impact Statement



DF Distribution Factor



DFG Department of Fish and Game



DLC Direct Load Control



DME Disturbance Monitoring Equipment



DO Dissolved Oxygen



DOE Department of Energy



DOE Act Department of Energy Organization Act



DOE/FE Department of Energy - Office of Fossil Energy



DOI Department of Interior



DOT Department of Transportation



DR Demand Response



DSM Demand-Side Management



Dth Dekatherm (equivalent to 1 MMBTU)

 

E

e.g. Exempli gratia



E&D Expenses Exploration and development expenses



EA Environmental Assessment



EBB Electronic Bulletin Board



ECAR East Central Area Reliability Coordination Agreement



ECPA Electric Consumers Protection Act



EDRP Emergency Demand Response Program



EEI Edison Electric Institute



EHV Extra High Voltage



EI Environmental Inspector



EIA Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy



EIS Environmental Impact Statement



ELCON Electricity Consumers Resources Council



EMF Electro Magnetic Fields



EPA Environmental Protection Act



EPAct National Energy Policy Act of 1992



EPAct 2005 Energy Policy Act of 2005



EPRI Electric Power Research Institute



EPS Earnings Per Share



EQR Electric Quarterly Report



ERA Economic Regulatory Administration (now called Fossil Energy FE)



ERCOT Electric Reliability Council of Texas



ERO Electric Reliability Organization



ERTA Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981



ESA Endangered Species Act



ESCO Efficiency Service Company



ESOT Employee Stock Ownership Trust



EWG Exempt Wholesale Generator

 

F

FAC Fuel Adjustment Clause



FACTS Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System



FASB The Financial Accounting Standards Board



FCITC First Contingency Incremental Transfer Capability



FEIS Final Environmental Impact Statement



FELCC Firm Energy Load Carrying Capability



FERC or Commission Federal Energy Regulatory Commission



FIFO First-in, first-out



Fishway Fish Ladder



FLPMA Federal Land Policy and Management Act



FOIA Freedom of Information Act



FONSI Finding of no significant impact



FPA Federal Power Act



FPC Federal Power Commission



FPS Firm peaking service



FR Full Requirements



FR or F.R. or Fed Reg Federal Register



FRCC Florida Reliability Coordinating Council



FS Forest Service



FSO4 Final Standard Offer Four



FT Firm Transportation Service



FTC Federal Trade Commission



FTR Firm Transmission Rights



FTS Firm transportation service



FUA The Fuel Use Act



FUCO Foreign Utility Company



FWPA Federal Water Power Act



FWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

 

G

GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles



GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade



Genco Generation Company



GIC Gas Inventory Charge



GISB Gas Industry Standards Board (now NAESB)



GLDF Generator-to-Load Distribution Factor



GRI Gas Research Institute



Gridco Transmission Company (a Transco)



GSF Generator-to-Load Distribution Factor



GSR Gas Supply Realignment



GSR costs Gas Supply Realignment Costs



GT&C General terms and conditions



GTI Gas Technology Institute



GW Gigawatt



Gwh Gigawatt-Hour

 

H

HCA Host Control Area



HEP Habitat Evaluation Procedure



HHI Hirschman Herfindahl Index



HQI Habitat Quality Index



hp Horsepower



HVAR Highly Valued Aquatic Resource

 

I

IBC International Boundary Commission



IBES Institutional Brokers' Estimate System



ICAP Installed Capacity



ICT Independent Coordinator of Transmission



IDC Interchange Distribution Calculator



IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.



IER Incremental Energy Rate



IFIM Instream Flow Incremental Methodology



IGIC Interim gas inventory charge



IGSC Interim gas supply charge



IGT Institute of Gas Technology



IHR Incremental Heat Rate



IJC International Joint Commission



ILP Integrated Licensing Process



IOS Interconnected Operations Services



IOU Investor Owned Utility



IP Implementation plan



IPAA Independent Petroleum Association of America



IPPs Independent Power Producers



INGAA Interstate Natural Gas Association of America



IROL Interconnection Reliability Operating Limit



IRP Integrated Resource Planning



IRR Internal Rate of Return



IRS Internal Revenue Service



ISO Independent System Operator



ISO-NE ISO New England, Inc.



ISP Incentive Sales Program



ISS Interruptible Sales Service



IT Interruptible Transportation



ITC Investment Tax Credit



ITS Interruptible transportation service

 

J

J.A.S. Joint Association Survey

 

K

KN Kansas-Nebraska



kV Kilovolt



KVA Kilovolt-Ampere



kvar Kilovar



Kw Kilowatt



KWH Kilowatt-Hour

 

L

LBO Leveraged Buyout



LDC Local Distribution Company



LIBOR The London Interbank Offered Rate of Interest



LIFO Last-in, First Out



LIHEAP Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program



LNG Liquified Natural Gas



LODF Line Outage Distribution Factor



LOLE Loss of Load Expectation



LPG Liquified Petroleum Gas



LPN Lender Participation Notes



LSE Load Serving Entity



LSF Load Shift Factor



lsfo Low-sulfur fuel oil

 

M

MAAC Mid-Atlantic Area Council



MAIN Mid-America Interconnected Network



MAOP Maximum allowable operating pressure



MAPP Mid-Continent Area Power Pool



MBR Market-based Rates



Mcf One Thousand Cubic Feet



MDD Maximum Daily Delivery Obligations



MDDQ Maximum Daily Delivery Quantity



MDQ Maximum Daily Quantities



MER Maximum Efficient Rate



MFV Modified Fixed-Variable Rate



MISO Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc.



MLP Maximum lawful price



MLRA Major Land Resource Areas



MM Used to denote million in gas usage



MMBtu 1 million British Thermal Unit



MMC Market Monitoring Center



MMcf 1 million cubic feet of gas



MMS Mineral Management Service



MODFLOW model of groundwater flow



MOU Memorandum of Understanding



MP Milepost



MRO Midwest Reliability Organization



msl Mean sea level



MSW Municipal Solid Waste



Muni Municipality



MVA Megavolt-Amperes



MW Megawatts

 

N

NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality Standards



NAESB North American Energy Standards Board (formerly GISB)



NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement



NARUC National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners



NASDAQS National Ass'n of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation Sys.



NASUCA National Association of Utility Consumer Advocates



NATC Non-Recallable Available Transfer Capability



NBS National Bureau of Standards



NCD Non-coincidental Demand



NCSL National Conference of State Legislatures



NEA of 1978 The National Energy Act of 1978



NEB National Energy Board



NEPA National Environmental Policy Act



NEPOOL New England Power Pool



NERC North American Electric Reliability Corporation



NGA Natural Gas Act



NGAA Natural Gasoline Association of America



NGL Natural Gas Liquids



NGPA Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978



NGPSA Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968



NGSA Natural Gas Supply Association



NHPA National Historic Preservation Act



NITC Normal Incremental Transfer Capability



NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service



NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration



NOI Notice of Intent or Notice of Inquiry or Notice of Investigation



NOPR Notice of Proposed Rulemaking



NPCC Northeast Power Coordinating Council



NPS National Park Service



NPV Net Present Value



NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission



NRCS National Resource Conservation Service



NREPA National Resource and Environmental Protection Act



NRHP National Register of Historic Places



NRI National Rivers Inventory


NSA Noise sensitive area



NUG Non-Utility Generator



NWI National Wetland Inventory



NYSDEC New York State Department of Environmental Conservation



NYISO New York Independent System Operator, Inc.

 

O

O&M Operation and Maintenance Expenses



OASIS Open Access Same Time Information Systems



OATT Open Access Transmission Tariff



OC Optical Certificate



OCS Outer Continental Shelf



OCSLA Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act



OFO Operational Flow Order



O&M Operation and maintenance



OMP Operation and Maintenance Plan



Ontario IESO Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator



OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries



OSHA U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration



OTAG Ozone Transport Assessment Group



OTDF Outage Transfer Distribution Factor

 

P

PA Planning Authority



PA Programmatic Agreement



PBR Performance-Based Regulation



PCB Polychlorinated biphenyls



PD Preliminary Determination



PGA Purchased Gas Adjustment



PHA Production Handling Agreement



PHFFU Plant held for future use



PIDX Petroleum Industry Data Exchange



PIFUA Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978



PJM PJM Interconnection, LLC



Plan FERC's Upland Erosion Control, Revegetation, and Maintenance Plan (when used in gas certificate proceedings)



PM Particulate matter



PMA Power Marketing Administration or Fed. Power Marketing Agency



PM&E Protection, mitigation and enhancement



POD Point of Delivery



POR Point of Receipt



PPA Power Purchase Agreement



ppm Parts per million



Procedures FERC's Wetland & Waterbody Construction Mitigation Procedures (when used in gas certificate proceedings)



PSC Public Service Commission



PSD Prevention of Significant Deterioration



psig Pounds per square inch



PTDF Power Transfer Distribution Factor



PTP Point to Point Transmission Service



PUC Public Utility Commission



PUD Public Utility District



PUHCA Public Utility Holding Company Act



PURPA Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act



PX Power Exchange

 

Q

QF Qualifying Facility



QFs Qualifying Facilities



QUAD A quadrillion Btus

 

R

R/P Reserves-to-Production



RAB Regional Advisory Body



RAS Remedial Action Scheme



RATC Recallable Available Transmission Capability



RC Reliability Coordinator



RCRA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act



RCIS Reliability Coordinator Information System



RFA Regulatory Flexibility Act



RFC ReliabilityFirst Corporation



RFI Request for Interchange



RM Rulemaking



RMR Reliability Must Run



ROA Return of Assets



ROE Return of Equity



ROFR Right of First Refusal



ROI Return on Investment



ROW Right-of-Way



RPM Reliability Pricing Model



RRO Regional Reliability Organization



RSE Revenue Stream Estimate



RTG Regional Transmission Group



RTO Regional Transmission Organization



RTP Real-time Pricing



RTU Remote Terminal Unit



RUS Rural Utilities Service

 

S

SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition



Scf Standard Cubic Foot of Natural Gas



SCO Stranded Cost Obligation



SEC Securities and Exchange Commission



SERC SERC Reliability Corporation



Secretary generally refers to Secretary of the Commission



SFEIS Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Statement



SFV Straight Fixed-Variable



SGR State game refuge



SHPO State Historic Preservation Office



SIC Standard Industrial Classification



SMPs Special Marketing Programs



SNG Synthetic Natural Gas or Substitute Natural Gas



SOL System Operating Limit



SPCC Spill Prevention, Containment and Countermeasure Plan



SPP Small Power Producer



SPP Southwest Power Pool, Inc.



SPS Special Protection System



SVC Static VAR Compensator



SYD Sum of Years' Digits

 

T

TBS Town border station



TC Total Cost



Tcf Trillion cubic feet



TCR Transition Cost Recovery (Mechanism)



TDU Transmission Dependent Utility



TEFRA Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1985



TLR Procedures Transmission Line Loading Relief Procedures



TOP Transmission Operator



TOU Time-of-Use



Transco Transmission Company



TRM Transmission Reliability Margin



TTC Total Transfer Capability



TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

 

U

UFLS Under Frequency Load Shedding



U.S.C. United States Code



USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture



USGS U.S. Geological Survey



UVLS Under Voltage Load Shedding


V

v. Versus



v Volt



VA Volt-Ampere



VAR Volt-Ampere-Reactive Unit


W

WACOG weighted average cost of gas



WECC Western Electricity Coordinating Council



WIRAB Western Interconnection Regional Advisory Body



WMA Wildlife management area



WPA Waterfowl production area



WPI Wholesale Price Index



WQC Water Quality Certificate



WSCC Western Systems Coordinating Council



WSPP Western Systems Power Pool



WTP Willingness to Pay



WY Water Year

 

This page was last updated on August 31, 2020