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Glossary
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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- Emission allowance
- Typically, emissions reduction schemes set a cap for total emissions for each participant over a period and allocate each participant tradable units, called emissions allowances, up to the cap. Participants buy and sell emissions allowances and aat the end of the period must hold allowances or credits equal to their actual emissions to be in compliance.
- Emissions cap
- The limit on emissions applicable to a participant over a period of time used to allocate emissions allowances
- Emissions credit
- Countries and companies can earn tradable emissions credits by undertaking projects that reduce emlssions over and above what would occur in a business as usual scenario.
- Emissions trading
- Countries and companies can trade emissions allowances and emissions credits. Emissions trading is one of the Kyoto mechanisms for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases contributing to climate change.
- Emissions trading scheme
- Scheme for trading emissions allowances and emissions credits
- Entry capacity
- The quantity of gas that a shipper is entitled to put into the system at a particular input point on a day.
- EPBD
- The Directive on the energy performance of buildings (EPBD) is the Directive 2002/91/EC (EPBD, 2003) of the European Parliament and Council on energy efficiency of buildings.The Directive came into force on 4th January 2003 and had to be implemented by the EU Member States at the latest on 4 January 2006.
- ETSI
- The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, non-profit, standardization organization of the telecommunications industry (equipment makers and network operators) in Europe, with worldwide projection. ETSI has been successful in standardizing the GSM cell phone system and the TETRA professional mobile radio system.
- Exit capacity
- The quantity of gas that a shipper is entitled to withdraw from the national transmission system in order to meet the requirements of its customers on a day.
- Exit zone
- A geographical gas distribution area wholly contained within a local distribution zone which groups supply points together that, on a peak day, receive gas from the same national transmission system offtake point(s). Supply points in the same exit zone attract the same exit capacity charge rate.