EE Abbreviations

ACSR

Aluminum Cable Steel Reinforced

ALU

Arithmetic Logic Unit

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

BCD

Binary Code Decimal

BIOS

Basic Input Output System

BOSH

Basic Occupational Safety and Health

CHED

Commission on Higher Education

CD ROM

Compact Disk Read Only Memory

CPU

Central Processing Unit

COSH

Construction Occupational Safety and Health

CREM

Competitive Retail Electricity Market

DECS

Department of Education, Culture and Sports

DMC

Distribution Management Committee

EPIRA

Electric Power Industry Reform Act

ERC

Energy Regulation Commission

FTTH

Fiber to the Home

GMC

Grip Management Committee

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

IIEE

Institute of Integrated Electrical Engineers

JCPC

Joint Congressional Power Commission

LED

Light Emitting Diode

MAIFI

Momentary Average Interruption Frequency Index

NEC

National Electrical Code

OARC

Open Access and Retail Competition

OSHA

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

PDC

Philippine Distribution Code

PEC

Philippine Electrical Code

PEMC

Philippine Electricity Market Corporation

PEP

Philippine Energy Plan

PGC

Philippine Grid Code

PSALM

Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management

RES

Retail Electricity Supplier

SAIDI

Sustained Average Interruption Duration Index

SAIFI

Sustained Average Interruption Frequency Index

SGC

Successor Generation Company

SPUG

Small Power Utilities Group

SOLR

Supplier of Last Resort

TESDA

Technical Education and Skills Development Authority

TSC

Transition Supply Contract

UPS

Uninterruptible Power Supply

USB

Universal Serial Bus

WESM

Wholesale Electricity Spot Market

WWW

World Wide Webs