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2005 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

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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