Smart Grid Glossary
From Open Energy Information
Smart Grid Glossary
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- Definition: Adaptive Protection
- Definition: Adequacy
- Definition: Adjacent Balancing Authority
- Definition: Advanced Interrupting Switch
- Definition: Advanced Metering Infrastructure (Ami) / Smart Meters
- Definition: Adverse Reliability Impact
- Definition: Altitude Correction Factor
- Definition: Ancillary Service
- Definition: Ancillary Services Revenue
- Definition: Anti-Aliasing Filter
- Definition: Area Control Error
- Definition: Arranged Interchange
- Definition: Automated Capacitors
- Definition: Automated Distribution Circuit Switches
- Definition: Automated Feeder And Line Switching
- Definition: Automated Islanding And Reconnection
- Definition: Automated Voltage And Var Control
- Definition: Automatic Generation Control
- Definition: Available Transfer Capability
- Definition: Balancing Authority
- Definition: Balancing Authority Area
- Definition: Base Load
- Definition: Bes Emergency
- Definition: Blackstart Capability Plan
- Definition: Bulk Electric System
- Definition: Burden
- Definition: Capacity Benefit Margin
- Definition: Capacity Emergency
- Definition: Capacity Revenue
- Definition: Cascading Outage
- Definition: Circuit Peak Load Management
- Definition: Clock Hour
- Definition: Compliance Monitor
- Definition: Confirmed Interchange
- Definition: Congestion Management Report
- Definition: Constrained Facility
- Definition: Contingency
- Definition: Contingency Reserve
- Definition: Contract Path
- Definition: Control Performance Standard
- Definition: Controllable/Regulating Inverter
- Definition: Corrective Action Plan
- Definition: Cranking Path
- Definition: Critical Assets
- Definition: Critical Cyber Assets
- Definition: Critical Peak Pricing
- Definition: Curtailment
- Definition: Curtailment Threshold
- Definition: Customer Electricity Use Optimization
- Definition: Customer Ems/Display/Portal
- Definition: Cyber Assets
- Definition: Cyber Security Incident
- Definition: Deferred Distribution Capacity Investments
- Definition: Deferred Generation Capacity Investments
- Definition: Deferred Transmission Capacity Investments
- Definition: Delayed Fault Clearing
- Definition: Demand
- Definition: Demand Side Management
- Definition: Diagnosis & Notification Of Equipment Condition
- Definition: Direct Control Load Management
- Definition: Dispersed Load By Substations
- Definition: Distribution Automation
- Definition: Distribution Factor
- Definition: Distribution Management System
- Definition: Distribution Provider
- Definition: Disturbance
- Definition: Disturbance Control Standard
- Definition: Disturbance Monitoring Equipment
- Definition: Dynamic Capability Rating
- Definition: Dynamic Interchange Schedule Or Dynamic Schedule
- Definition: Dynamic Transfer
- Definition: Economic Dispatch
- Definition: Electric Vehicle Charging Station
- Definition: Electrical Energy
- Definition: Electronic Security Perimeter
- Definition: Element
- Definition: Emergency Or Bes Emergency
- Definition: Emergency Rating
- Definition: Energy Emergency
- Definition: Energy Revenue
- Definition: Enhanced Fault Detection Technology
- Definition: Enhanced Fault Protection
- Definition: Equipment Health Sensor
- Definition: Equipment Rating
- Definition: Facility
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- Definition: Facility Rating
- Definition: Facts Device
- Definition: Fault
- Definition: Fault Current Limiter
- Definition: Fault Current Limiting
- Definition: Firm Demand
- Definition: Firm Transmission Service
- Definition: Flowgate
- Definition: Forced Outage
- Definition: Frequency Bias
- Definition: Frequency Bias Setting
- Definition: Frequency Deviation
- Definition: Frequency Error
- Definition: Frequency Regulation
- Definition: Frequency Response
- Definition: Generator Operator
- Definition: Generator Owner
- Definition: Generator Shift Factor
- Definition: Generator-To-Load Distribution Factor
- Definition: Host Balancing Authority
- Definition: Implemented Interchange
- Definition: Inadvertent Interchange
- Definition: Independent Power Producer
- Definition: Information Service
- Definition: Interchange
- Definition: Interchange Authority
- Definition: Interchange Distribution Calculator
- Definition: Interchange Schedule
- Definition: Interchange Transaction
- Definition: Interchange Transaction Tag Or Tag
- Definition: Interconnected Operations Service
- Definition: Interconnection
- Definition: Interconnection Reliability Operating Limit
- Definition: Interconnection Reliability Operating Limit Tv
- Definition: Intermediate Balancing Authority
- Definition: Interruptible Load Or Interruptible Demand
- Definition: Investment Grant Program
- Definition: Joint Control
- Definition: Limiting Element
- Definition: Load
- Definition: Load Shift Factor
- Definition: Load-Serving Entity
- Definition: Loading Monitor
- Definition: Meter Data Analysis System
- Definition: Microgrid Controller
- Definition: Misoperation
- Definition: Mode Meter
- Definition: Native Load
- Definition: Net Actual Interchange
- Definition: Net Energy For Load
- Definition: Net Interchange Schedule
- Definition: Net Scheduled Interchange
- Definition: Network Integration Transmission Service
- Definition: Non-Firm Transmission Service
- Definition: Non-Spinning Reserve
- Definition: Normal Clearing
- Definition: Normal Rating
- Definition: Off-Peak
- Definition: On-Peak
- Definition: Open Access Same Time Information Service
- Definition: Open Access Transmission Tariff
- Definition: Operating Plan
- Definition: Operating Procedure
- Definition: Operating Process
- Definition: Operating Reserve
- Definition: Operating Reserve - Spinning
- Definition: Operating Reserve - Supplemental
- Definition: Operating Voltage
- Definition: Optimized Generator Operation
- Definition: Overlap Regulation Service
- Definition: Peak Demand
- Definition: Performance-Reset Period
- Definition: Phase Angle Regulating Transformer
- Definition: Phasor Measurement Technology
- Definition: Physical Security Perimeter
- Definition: Planning Authority
- Definition: Point Of Delivery
- Definition: Point Of Receipt
- Definition: Point To Point Transmission Service
- Definition: Power Flow Control
- Definition: Pro Forma Tariff
- Definition: Protection System
- Definition: Pseudo-Tie
- Definition: Purchasing-Selling Entity
- Definition: Ramp Rate(Generator)
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- Definition: Ramp Rate(Schedule)
- Definition: Rated Electrical Operating Conditions
- Definition: Rating
- Definition: Reactive Power
- Definition: Real Power
- Definition: Real-Time Load Measurement And Management
- Definition: Real-Time Load Transfer
- Definition: Reallocation
- Definition: Receiving Balancing Authority
- Definition: Reduced Ancillary Service Cost
- Definition: Reduced Co2 Emissions
- Definition: Reduced Congestion Cost
- Definition: Reduced Electricity Cost
- Definition: Reduced Electricity Losses
- Definition: Reduced Electricity Theft
- Definition: Reduced Equipment Failures
- Definition: Reduced Major Outages
- Definition: Reduced Meter Reading Cost
- Definition: Reduced Momentary Outages
- Definition: Reduced Oil Usage (Not Monetized)
- Definition: Reduced Restoration Cost
- Definition: Reduced Sags And Swells
- Definition: Reduced Sox, Nox, And Pm-2.5 Emissions
- Definition: Reduced Sustained Outages
- Definition: Reduced T&D Equipment Maintenance Cost
- Definition: Reduced T&D Operations Cost
- Definition: Reduced Wide-Scale Blackouts
- Definition: Regional Reliability Organization
- Definition: Regional Reliability Plan
- Definition: Regulating Reserve
- Definition: Regulation Service
- Definition: Reliability Coordinator
- Definition: Reliability Coordinator Area
- Definition: Reliability Coordinator Information System
- Definition: Remote Fault Indicators
- Definition: Renewable Energy Forecasting Tool
- Definition: Reportable Disturbance
- Definition: Request For Interchange
- Definition: Reserve Sharing Group
- Definition: Resource Planner
- Definition: Response Rate
- Definition: Right-Of-Way (Row)
- Definition: Scheduling Entity
- Definition: Scheduling Path
- Definition: Sending Balancing Authority
- Definition: Sink Balancing Authority
- Definition: Smart Appliances And Equipment (Customer)
- Definition: Software - Advanced Analysis/Visualization
- Definition: Source Balancing Authority
- Definition: Special Protection System
- Definition: Spinning Reserve
- Definition: Stability
- Definition: Stability Limit
- Definition: Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
- Definition: Supplemental Regulation Service
- Definition: Surge
- Definition: Sustained Outage
- Definition: System
- Definition: System Operating Limit
- Definition: Telemetering
- Definition: Thermal Overload Monitoring
- Definition: Thermal Rating
- Definition: Tie Line
- Definition: Tie Line Bias
- Definition: Time Error
- Definition: Time Error Correction
- Definition: Tlr Log
- Definition: Total Transfer Capability
- Definition: Transfer Capability
- Definition: Transmission Constraint
- Definition: Transmission Customer
- Definition: Transmission Line
- Definition: Transmission Operator
- Definition: Transmission Owner
- Definition: Transmission Planner
- Definition: Transmission Reliability
- Definition: Transmission Reliability Margin
- Definition: Transmission Service
- Definition: Transmission Service Provider
- Definition: Transmission System Operator
- Definition: Two-Way Communications (High Bandwidth)
- Definition: Very Low Impedance (Hts) Cables
- Definition: Wide Area
- Definition: Wide Area Monitoring, Visualization, & Control