Acronyms

Acronyms

A

AMI - Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Smart meter systems that collect detailed consumption data at frequent intervals (typically 15 minutes or hourly).

API - Application Programming Interface
A set of protocols and tools for building software applications that enable different systems to communicate.

ARIMA - AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average
A statistical model for time series forecasting.

C

CCPA - California Consumer Privacy Act
State privacy law regulating how businesses handle personal information.

CICIDS2017 - Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity Intrusion Detection Dataset 2017
A benchmark dataset for cybersecurity research.

D

DER - Distributed Energy Resources
Small-scale power generation or storage located near consumption, such as rooftop solar or batteries.

DGA - Dissolved Gas Analysis
A technique for monitoring transformer health by analyzing gases dissolved in transformer oil.

E

EAM - Enterprise Asset Management
Software systems for tracking and managing physical infrastructure assets.

ETL - Extract, Transform, Load
The process of moving data from source systems to analytics platforms.

F

FERC - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
U.S. federal agency that regulates interstate electricity transmission and wholesale markets.

G

GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation
European Union data privacy regulation.

GIS - Geographic Information System
Systems for capturing, storing, and analyzing geographic and spatial data.

GHI - Global Horizontal Irradiance
Total solar radiation received on a horizontal surface, used in solar forecasting.

I

IT - Information Technology
Computer systems, software, and data management infrastructure.

K

KPI - Key Performance Indicator
Metrics used to evaluate operational performance and success.

L

LLM - Large Language Model
Advanced AI models trained on vast text corpora, capable of understanding and generating human language.

LSTM - Long Short-Term Memory
A type of recurrent neural network for time series modeling.

M

MAE - Mean Absolute Error
A forecast accuracy metric measuring average prediction error magnitude.

MAPE - Mean Absolute Percentage Error
A forecast accuracy metric expressing error as a percentage of actual values.

ML - Machine Learning
A subset of artificial intelligence that enables systems to learn from data without explicit programming.

MLOps - Machine Learning Operations
Practices and tools for deploying and maintaining ML models in production.

MSE - Mean Squared Error
A forecast accuracy metric that penalizes larger errors more heavily.

N

NERC - North American Electric Reliability Corporation
Organization that develops and enforces reliability standards for the North American bulk power system.

NERC CIP - NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection
Cybersecurity standards for protecting critical power infrastructure.

NLP - Natural Language Processing
AI techniques for understanding and processing human language.

O

OMS - Outage Management System
Software systems that track and manage power outages and restoration efforts.

OT - Operational Technology
Hardware and software that monitors and controls physical processes, such as SCADA systems.

P

PMU - Phasor Measurement Unit
High-speed sensors that measure grid voltage and current phasors for real-time monitoring.

PUC - Public Utility Commission
State regulatory agencies that oversee utility operations and rates.

PV - Photovoltaic
Solar panels that convert sunlight directly into electricity.

PVLib - Photovoltaic Library
Python package for modeling solar PV system performance.

R

RL - Reinforcement Learning
A machine learning paradigm where agents learn through trial and error.

RMSE - Root Mean Squared Error
A forecast accuracy metric, the square root of mean squared error.

ROC - Receiver Operating Characteristic
A curve showing the trade-off between true positive rate and false positive rate for classification models.

ROI - Return on Investment
A measure of the financial return from an investment relative to its cost.

S

SAIDI - System Average Interruption Duration Index
A reliability metric measuring the average duration of outages per customer.

SAIFI - System Average Interruption Frequency Index
A reliability metric measuring the average number of outages per customer.

SARIMA - Seasonal AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average
An extension of ARIMA that models seasonal patterns.

SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
Real-time monitoring and control systems for grid equipment.

SHAP - SHapley Additive exPlanations
A method for explaining individual model predictions.

SIEM - Security Information and Event Management
Systems that collect and analyze security logs for threat detection.

T

TF-IDF - Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency
A text feature extraction method that weights words by their importance in documents.

Y

YOLO - You Only Look Once
A real-time object detection algorithm used in computer vision applications.