Most Commonly Used Abbreviations in Power System

Most Commonly Used Abbreviations In Power System : 

AAAC            All Aluminium Alloy Conductor

ABCB            Air Break Circuit Breaker 

AC                Alternating Current

ACCC            Aluminium Conductor Composite Core

ACR              Automatic Circuit Recloser

ACSR            Aluminium Conductors Steel Reinforced

AMIE             Associate Member of Institute of Engineers

ANSI             American National Standard Institute

APA              Annual Performance Agreement

APP              Annual Procurement Plan

ASCII            American Standard Code for International Interchange

ASTM            American Society for Testing and Materials

AVO Meter     Ampere Volt Ohm Meter

AVR              Automatic Voltage Regulator

BDV              Break Down Voltage

BERC            Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commmission

BSTI             Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution

BIL               Basic Insulation Level

BIOS             Basic Input Output System

BOL              Bangladesh on Line Limited

BOQ             Bill of Quantity

B2B              Back to Back

BPDB            Bangladesh Power Development Board

BREB            Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board

CAIDI            Customer Average Interruption Duration Index

CAIFI            Customer Average Interruption Frequency Index

CAMP            Control and Protection Module

CCA              Cromated Copper Arsined / Capital Cost Allowance

CCEM            Control Cable Entry Module

CCGP            Cabinet Committee of Government Procurement or Purchase  

CCPM            Control Cable Protection Module

CERS            Central Equipments Repairing Shop

CFCC            Corrupt and Fraudulent, Collusive or Coercive Practices 

CFL              Compact Flurocent lamp

CLP              Cold Load Pickup

CMO             Consumer/Customer Meter Order

CPM              Critical Path Method

CPR              Continual Property Record

CPP              Captive Power Plant

CPTU            Central Procurement Technical Unit

CRJ              Cash Receipt  Journal

CSP              Completely Self Protected

CT                Current Transformer

CZPDC          Central Zone Power Distribution Company

DC               Direct Current

DCC              Distribution Co-ordination Committee

DDP-2                    Dhaka Divisional Project phase-2

DESA            Dhaka Electric Supply Authority

DESCO          Dhaka Electric Supply Company Limited.

DNP              Disconnection for Non Payment

DPC              Departmental Promotion Committee

DPDC            Dhaka Power Distribution Company 

DPM             Direct Procurement Method

DPP              Development Project Proposal

DSL              Debt Service Liability

DSM             Demand Side Management

ECNEC          Executive Committee for National Economic Council

EGCBL           Electric Generation Company of Bangladesh Limited

e-GP             Electronic Government Procurement

EGC              Electricity Grid Code

EHV              Extra High Voltage

EMF              Electromotive Force

ENIAC           Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator

EOI               Expression of Interest

ERC              Equipment Record Card

ERU              Equipment Repairing Unit

FIFO             First In First Out 

GCC              General Conditions of Contract

GIS              Geographical Information System/Gas Insulated Switchgear

HOPE            Head of Procuring Entity

HTML            Hyper Text Markup Language

HT/HV High Tension/ High Voltage

HTTP             Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

HVAC            High Voltage Alternating Current

HVDC            High Voltage Direct Current

IDMT            Independent Definite Minimum Time

IEC               International Electrotechnical Commission

IED               Intelligence Electronic Device

IEEE             Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

IMED            Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division

IMRAS           Intelligent Meter Reading and  Analytic System

INCOTERM     International Commercial Term

IPP               Independent Power Producer

IRR               Internal Rate of Return

ISO              International Organization For Standardization

JVCA             Joint Venture Consortium or Association

KVA              Kilo Volt Ampere

KVAR            Kilo Volt Ampere Reactive

KWH             KiloWatt Hour

LAN              Local Area Network

LC                Letter of Credit or Commitment 

NLDC            National Load Despatch Center

LT/LV            Low Tension/Low Voltage

LTM              Limited Tendering Method

MCB             Miniature Circuit Breaker 

MCOV           Maximum Continuous Operating Voltage

MDM             Meter Data Management

MOCB           Minimum Oil Circuit Breaker

MGN             Multi Grounded Neutral 

MIS              Management Information System

MMF             Magnetomotive Force

MPEMR          Ministry of Power Energy and Meneral Resource

MPO             Monthly Payment Order

MR               Management Representative

MTTR            Mean Time to Repair

NASA            National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NLDC            National Load Dispatch Center

NMS             National Management System

NRECA          National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

NWD             Nation Wide Dialing

NWZPDC       North–West Zone Power Distribution Company

OCP              Operator Control Panel

OCR              Oil Circuit Recloser

OLTC            On Load Tap Changer

OMF             Overall Multiplying Factor

OMS             Outage Management System

ONAF            Oil Natural Air Force  

ONAN           Oil Natural Air Natural

OPGW           Optical Ground Wire

OPS              Operator Panel Sub-system 

OSTETM        One Stage Two Envelope Tendering Method

OTM             Open Tendering Method

PABX            Private Automation Branch Exchange

PBS              Palli Bidyut Samity

PCB              Printed Circuit Board

PCC              Particular Conditions of Contract

PDR              Public Demand Recovery

PE                Procuring Entity

PF                Power Factor

PG                Post Graduate/Performance Guarantee

PGCB            Power Grid Company of Bangladesh

PLC              Power Line Carrier

PLC              Programmable Logic Circuit

PMIS             Personnel Management Information System

PODCC          Planning Organizing Directing Co- Ordination & Controlling

POST            Power On Self Test

PPA              Power Purchase Agreement

PPM              Parts Per Million

PERT             Programme Evaluation & Review Technique

PPP              Public Private Partnership

PPR              Public Procurement Rules

PRD              Pressure Relief Device

PSI               Pounds per Square Inch

PSMP            Power System Master Plan

PSR              PBS/Primary Survey Report

PT                Potential Transformer

PTA              Performance Target Agreement

PVC              Polyvinyl Chloride

PWD             Public Works Department

QMS             Quality Management System

RCC              Reinforced Concrete

RFQM            Request for Quotation Method

RMS             Root of Mean Square

RPCL             Rural Power Company of Bangladesh Limited

RTU              Remote Terminal Unit

SAIDI            System Average Interruption Duration Index

SAIFI           System Average Interruption Frequency Index

SAS              Sub-Station Automation System

SCADA          Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

SF6              Sulphur Hexaflouride

SGF/SEF        Sensitive Ground/Earth Fault

SGTC            Smart Grid Technology Centre

SMART          Strategic Measurable  Achievable Realistic Timebound

SPC              Spun Pres-tressed Concrete

SPDT            Single Pole Double Through

STD              Standard Tender Document

SWG             Standard Wire Gage S

WZPDC         South–West Zone Power Distribution Company

TC                Technical Committee

TCC              Time Current Curve

TCF              Temperature Correction Factor

TDD             Total Demand Distortion

THD              Total Harmonic Distortion

TD/TM           Time Dial/Time Multiplier 

TEC              Tender Evaluation Committee

PEC               Proposal Evaluation Committee

BEC              Bid Evaluation Committee

TIN               Tax Identification Number

TMLM            Transformer Maintenance & Load Management

TOC              Tender Opening Committee

TOR              Terms of Reference

TQS              Technical Quality System

TSC              Technical Sub-committee

TSR              Technical Survey Report

TSTM            Two Stage Tendering Method

USAID           United States Agency for International Development

UFR              Under Frequency Relay

USOAC          Uniform System of Accounts

VDU              Visual Display Unit

WAN             Wide Area Network

WSOS           Windows Switchgear Operating System

WWW           World Wide Web

WZPDC         West Zone Power Distribution Company 

NZPDC          North Zone Power Distribution Company 

X/R              Reactance/Resistance

5R                Right Time, Right Planning, Right Quality, Right Quantity, Right Place