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