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A

Administration
Affiliate
Aggregator
Ancillary Services (AS)

B

Barrel
Basic Necessities
Bottom Ash
Buffer fund
Buffer zone
Bunker Delivery Note (BDN)

C

Captive Market
Casinghead petroleum spirit
Central Dispatch
Commercial-scale WTE facility
Commission
Concession Contract
Contestable Market
Continuous Emissions Monitoring System
Contract
Contractor
Control
Co-Generation Facility
Crude
Crude Oil
Crude oil exported
Customer Service Charge

D

Deepwater Contract
Deepwater Contractor
Deepwater Well
Demand Side Management
Department of Energy (DOE)
Department of Finance (DOF)
Distribution Code
Distribution of Electricity
Distribution System
Distribution Utility (DU)
Distribution Wheeling Charge
DOE
DOF
DU

E

EC
ECA
EGCS
Electric Cooperative (EC)
Electric Power Industry Participant
Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (EPIRA)
Emission
Emission Controlled Areas (ECA)
End-user
Energy
Energy Regulatory Board (ERB)
Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC)
Environmental risk assessment
EPIRA
ERB
ERC
Exhaust Gas Cleaning System (EGCS)

F

Filipino participation incentive
Fly Ash
FONAR
Franchise Area
Fuel Oil Non-Availability Report (FONAR)

G

Generation Company
Grid
Grid Code
Gross income

H

Hazardous wastes
Health risk assessment

I

Independent Market Operator (IMO)
Independent Power Producer (IPP)
Inter-Class Cross Subsidy
Inter-Regional Grid Cross Subsidy
Intra- Regional Grid Cross Subsidy
IPP
IPP Administrator
Isolated Distribution System

L

Lifeline Rate
Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (LSFO)
LSFO

M

MARINA
Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA)
Market Price
MARPOL Annex VI
MARPOL Convention

N

National Electrification Administration (NEA)
National Power Corporation (NPC)
National Transmission Corporation (TRANSCO)
Natural gas
NEA

O

Oil Exploration and Development Act of 1972
Oil Record Book
Open Access
Operating Expenses

P

Panic-buying
PEP
Petroleum
Petroleum in commercial quantity
Petroleum operations
Phase-in LSFO Implementation Roadmap
Philippine corporation
Philippine Energy Plan (PEP)
Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE)
Pollution Abatement System
Posted price
Power Development Program (PDP)
Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM)
Prevailing price
Pre-processing
Price Act
Price ceiling
Prime Commodities
Privatization

Q

Quality Control

R

Recognized Organizations (ROs)
Related Group
Resource recovery
Restructuring
Retail Rate
ROs

S

Scrubber
SECA
Ship
Ship Specific Implementation Plan (SIP)
SIP
Solid Waste Management Plan
SPUG
Stranded contract costs of NPC or distribution utility
Stranded Debts of NPC
Subtransmission Assets
Sulphur Emission Control Areas (SECA)
Supplier
Supplier’s charge
Supply of Electricity
SWM Plan

T

Taxable net income
Taxable Year
TDP
Toxicity equivalence
TRANSCO
Transmission Charge
Transmission Development Plan (TDP)
Transmission of Electricity

U

UC
Universal Charge

V

Vessel

W

Waste Materials
Waste-to-energy (WTE)
WTE
WTE Facility

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