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Glossary - C
The utilities industry is awash with jargon and apparently meaningless abbreviations. We aim to explain what some of them mean. Please use either the search box (above and left) or the A to Z matrix to the right.
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- Climate Change Levy
- Tax intraduced in April 2001 to incentivise energy efficiency and help meet the UK's environmental commitments made at the Kyoto Conference. The levy is charged on non-domestic use of energy supplied to the consumer and covers electricity, coal, gas and LPG
- Connection agreement
- Contract between electricity consumer and distribution network operator establishing the terms on which the customer's supply is connecied to the distribution network.
- CPS
- Carrier Pre-Select is a term relating to the telecommunications industry. It is the process where by a telephone subscriber whose telephone line is maintained by one company, usually a former monopoly provider (e.g. BT), can choose to have some of their calls automatically routed across a different telephone company's network without needing to enter a special code or special equipment, and is usually done to reduce call costs.
- Curtilage
- The area of land within a boundary surrounding a property when not crossed by public highways, rail lines etc. Gas meter points sharing common ownership, purpose and curtilage may be aggregated to reduce transportation charges.
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