RA 7920 & RA 9136 – 60-Item Identification Questionnaire (Question & Answer Style)

60 QA flashcards based on RA 7920 and RA 9136 notes.

What is the term for the activity that includes consultation, design, supervision, teaching, operation, manufacture, and sale of electrical equipment?

Practice of electrical engineering

What term refers to equipment that produces, modifies, or controls electric energy?

Electric supply equipment

What term is a system or establishment for producing and modifying electric energy?

Electric plant

What term describes planning, specifying, and coordinating the layout of electrical equipment in power plants?

Power plant design

What term denotes a building housing electric supply equipment connected to transmission lines?

Substation

What term means planning and detailing requirements for protection, monitoring, and control of systems?

Electrical system design

What term is the highest effective potential difference between conductors?

Voltage

What term is the installed capacity of an AC plant expressed in kilovolt-amperes?

kVA

What term is the installed capacity of a DC plant on board watercraft expressed in kilowatts?

kW

What term describes energy-consuming equipment such as motors, heaters, and lamps?

Utilization equipment

What term refers to manufacturing assembly plants with electrical machinery and equipment?

Industrial plants or factories

What term classifies establishments like malls, hotels, theaters, and offices?

Commercial establishments

What term classifies schools, hospitals, museums, and government buildings?

Institutional buildings

What term denotes any waterborne unit designed to have an electric plant?

Watercraft

What term describes a power plant mounted on wheels for railroad transportation?

Electric locomotive

What term is used for a device measuring effective potential difference?

Voltmeter / Voltage

What term is the unit for AC plant capacity?

kVA

What term is the unit for DC plant capacity on watercraft?

kW

What term describes equipment like motors, heaters, and lamps?

Utilization equipment

What term classifies a mall or hotel?

Commercial establishment

What term classifies a school or hospital?

Institutional building

What term denotes a ship with electric plant?

Watercraft

What term refers to a train power plant?

Electric locomotive

What term is measured in volts?

Voltage

What term describes the organized layout of power plant components?

Power plant design

What term is the coordinated detailing of protective and control equipment?

Electrical system design

What is an example of utilization equipment used in lighting?

Lamp

What is an example of an institutional building for public health?

Hospital

What is an example of a commercial establishment for lodging?

Hotel

What is an example of an industrial plant?

Factory

What term describes the restructuring of the power industry under RA 9136?

Electric Power Industry Restructuring

What term refers to a person or entity generating electricity for sale?

Generation Company (GenCo)

What term denotes the entity conveying electricity through high-voltage backbone systems?

Transmission Company

What term denotes the entity distributing electricity to end-users through low-voltage systems?

Distribution Utility

What term denotes the entity that sells electricity to end-users?

Supplier

What term describes the right of consumers to choose their supplier once conditions are met?

Open Access

What term describes large electricity users allowed to choose suppliers?

Contestable Customers

What term describes electricity users not yet contestable?

Captive Customers

What term refers to the electricity market created under EPIRA?

WESM (Wholesale Electricity Spot Market)

What term denotes the entity tasked to privatize NPC assets and liabilities?

PSALM Corporation

What term describes the owner of transmission assets?

TRANSCO

What term denotes the operator of transmission assets under concession?

NGCP

What term is the charge collected to cover debts, electrification, and environmental projects?

Universal Charge

What term refers to the supply of electricity to remote, off-grid areas?

Missionary Electrification

What term describes small electricity users who cannot choose their suppliers yet?

Captive Customers

What term denotes the market mechanism introduced by EPIRA to promote competition?

WESM

What term denotes the agency mandated to privatize NPC assets?

PSALM

What term denotes the agency that regulates pricing and competition?

ERC

What term describes customers allowed to choose suppliers?

Contestable Customers

What term refers to the entity that provides policy direction for the energy sector?

DOE

What term is the charge funding environmental projects?

Environmental Charge (under Universal Charge)

What term funds electrification in remote islands?

Missionary Electrification Charge

What term describes NPC financial obligations not covered by revenues?

Stranded Debts

What term describes obligations to IPPs transferred to PSALM?

Stranded Contract Costs

What term refers to customers restricted to their franchise supplier?

Captive Customers

What term describes customers who may switch suppliers?

Contestable Customers

What term refers to the Philippine corporation that operates the transmission grid under concession?

NGCP

What term refers to the government-owned corporation that holds transmission assets?

TRANSCO

What term is the market operator managing the WESM?

PEMC / IEMOP

What term is the regulator ensuring fair rates and consumer protection?

ERC