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Y
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A

AFTA
Agricultural Lands
Alternative Fuel Vehicles/Engines
Ancestral Domain
Ancillary Services (AS)
Applicant
AS
Average Variable Cost

B

Basel Convention
Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)
BESS
Biodiesel
Bioethanol
Bioethanol Fuel
Biofuel
Biofuel Blends
Biofuel Distributor
Biofuel Feedstock Producer
Biofuel Producer
Biofuel Production Site
Biomass
Biomass energy systems
Biomass resources
Board
Board of Investments (BOI)
BOI
Bulk Supplier
Bureau

C

CAES
Cartelization
Certificate of Compliance (COC)
Certificate of Fuel Additive Registration (CFAR)
Certificate of Non-Overlap
Certification Precondition
CFAR
COC
Community-based Biofuel Producer
Conventional Plant
Co-generation systems
Crude Oil

D

DA
Dealer
Decentralized power generation (DPG)
DENR
Department of Energy (DOE)
Department of Environment Natural Resources (DENR)
Department of Finance (DOF)
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)
Department of Science and Technology (DOST)
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC)
DER
Diesel
Distributed Energy Resources (DER)
Distributed generation
Distribution of Electricity
Distribution System
Distribution Utility (DU)
DOE
DOF
DOI
Downstream Oil Industry (DOI)
DPG
DTI
DU

E

EG
Electric Power Industry Participant
Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA)
Embedded Generator (EG)
End-user
Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC)
Energy Storage System (ESS)
EPIRA
ERC

F

Feedstock
FES
Flywheel Energy Storage (FES)
FPIC
Free and Prior Informed Consent (FPIC)
Fuel

G

Gasoline
Generating Plant and ESS
Generation Company
Generation Facility
Geothermal energy
Geothermal Energy Systems
Geothermal Resources
Government Share
Green Energy Option
Grid

H

Hauler
Hybrid Systems
Hydroelectric Power Development
Hydroelectric Power Resources
Hydroelectric Power Systems
Hydropower Development
Hydropower Resources
Hydropower Systems

I

Illegal Conversion
Integrated Non-RE Plant and ESS
Integrated RE Plant and ESS
Irrigable Lands
Irrigated Lands

L

Land Use Conversion
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)
Locally-sourced biofuels
Local Government
Local government share
LPG
LPG cylinder
LPG Retail Outlet

M

Marketer
Market Operator (MO)
Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether
MGSP
Microgrid system
Microgrid system provider (MGSP)
Micro-scale Project
Missionary electrification
MO
Motor Fuel
MTBE

N

National Biofuels Program
National Electrification Administration (NEA)
National government share
National Power Corporation (NPC)
National Transmission Corporation (TRANSCO)
NBB
NEA
Net Metering
New Industry Participants
Non-power applications
NPC

O

Ocean Energy Systems
Off-Grid Systems
Oil Company
On-Grid System
OPSF
Oxygenate

P

PCA
PEMC
Person
Petroleum
Petroleum Depot
Petroleum Products
Petroleum Terminal
Philippine Biofuels Program
Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC)
Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC)
Philippine National Standards (PNS)
PNOC
PNS
Power applications
Power Quality
Predatory Pricing
Private Agricultural Lands
PSH
Pumped-Storage Hydropower (PSH)

Q

Qualified LPG Serviceman

R

Raw Materials
Reclassification of Agricultural Lands
Refiller
Refilling plant
Refiner
Registered RE Developer
REM
Renewable Energy Contract (RE Contract)
Renewable Energy Developers (RE Developers)
Renewable Energy Market (REM)
Renewable Energy Policy Framework (REPF)
Renewable Energy Resources (RE Resources)
Renewable Energy Service Contract (RE Service Contract)
Renewable Energy Sources (RE Sources)
Renewable Energy Systems Developers
Renewable Energy Systems (RE Systems)
Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS)
REPF
RE Act of 2008
RE Developers
RE generating unit with intermittent RE resources
RE Resources
RE Service Contract
RE Sources
RE Systems
RPS
Rural Electrification

S

SGO
SGSO
Small Grid
Small Grid Owner (SGO)
Small Grid System Operator (SGSO)
Small Power Utilities Group (SPUG)
SO
Social Amelioration and Welfare Program
Solar Energy
Solar Energy Systems
SRA
Stand-alone Energy Storage System
successors-in-interest
Sugarcane industry
Supplier
System Operator (SO)

T

TNP
TRANSCO
Transmission Grid
Transmission of Electricity

V

Variable Cost

W

Waste-to-energy technologies
WESM
Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM)
Wind Energy
Wind Energy Systems
WTO

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