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Glossary
- AMP
Achieving My Potential
- AMR
Automated Meter Reading
- BAP
Biodiversity Action Plan
- CCGT
Combined cycle gas turbine
- CHP
Combined heat and power
- CO2
Carbon dioxide
- CSR
Corporate social responsibility
- DEFRA
Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- dti
Department for Trade and Industry
- EBIT
Earnings before interest and tax
- EIA
Environmental Impact Assessment
- EMAS
Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
- EMS
Environmental Management System
- ERP
Energy Research Partnership
- EU
European Union
- EUEB
E.ON UK Executive Board
- EU ETS
European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
- FBA
Furnace Bottom Ash
- FPAG
Fuel Poverty Advisory Group
- FSA
Financial Services Authority
- GRI
Global Reporting Initiative
- GW
Gigawatt, or one thousand million watts
- GWh
Gigawatt hours
- HR
Human Resources
- IS
Information Systems
- ISO 14001
The International Standards Organisation's environmental management standard
- IPPC
Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive (EU)
- IT
Information technology
- kt
Kilotonne, or one thousand tonnes
- kWh
Kilowatt hours. The unit on which the price of electricity is based
- LBG
London Benchmarking Group
- MW
Megawatt, or one million watts
- Mtce
Million tonnes of coal equivalent
- NEM
Nominated environmental manager
- NGO
Non Government Organisation
- NOx
Oxides of nitrogen
- NVQ
National Vocational Qualification
- Ofgem
The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets
- PFA
Pulverised Fuel Ash
- PM10
Particles with a diameter of less than 10 micrometres (microns)
- PV
Photo Voltaic
- RME
Risk Management Executive
- ROC
Renewable Obligation Certificate
- RPZ
Registered Power Zone
- SAFELEC
Electricity industry targets set in response to the Government's 2000 health and safety strategy
- SCADA
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System
- SME
Small and medium-sized enterprise
- SOA
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- SO2
Sulphur dioxide
- StayWarm
Powergen's fixed low electricity and gas tariff for the over-60s
- TRIR
Total Recordable Injury Rate
- TWh
Terawatt hour, or the production or consumption of a million million watts for one hour
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