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