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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.
Displaying 11 - 20 of 145 definitions.
- BlackBerry
- The BlackBerry is a wireless handheld device introduced in 1999 which supports push e-mail, mobile telephone, text messaging, internet faxing, web browsing and other wireless information services. Developed by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM), it delivers information over the wireless data networks of mobile phone service companies. BlackBerry first made headway in the marketplace by concentrating on e-mail, and for 6 years had little real competition. In the last few years devices running Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5 and 6 operating system have started to gain ground on BlackBerry, and Android based phones are becoming popular. All three systems have strengths and weaknesses, although for sheer usability Blackberry remains our system of choice.
- BlackBerry Prosumer
- A mobile email solution for smaller organisations who cannot justify the relatively high price of BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).
- BlueTooth
- Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks (PANs). Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information between devices such as mobile phones, laptops, PCs, printers, digital cameras, and video game consoles over a secure, globally unlicensed short-range radio frequency.
- 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.
- Daily metered
- A gas supply point whose consumption is measured each day by means of a data logger
- Daily metered customer
- An interruptible gas supply point or a gas supply point with an annual consumption greater than 58,600,000kWh which is individually nominated each day by a shipper.
- Data aggregator
- The organisation appointed to aggregate electricity meter reading data received from data collectors to forward to suppliers.