John Bofarull Guix CONEL Buildings Energy Efficiency ANNEX 11 GLOSSARY 1 / 1

PROJECT CONEL ENERGY EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT Student: John Bofarull Guix, 396047
jgb.2009@hotmail.co.uk 396047@student.conel.ac.uk

GLOSSARY OF SOME ACCRONYMS
I have not listed all acronyms
1 AFC Alkaline Fuel Cell
2 ANSI American National Standards Institute
3 BEC British Electrotechnical Committee
4 BIPV Building Integrated Photo Voltaic
5 BRE Building Research Establishment
6 BS British Standard
7 BuildUp European web portal for Energy Efficiency Buildings
8 CHP Combined Head and Power
9 CONEL College of North East London
10 DEC Display Energy Certificate
11 DOE Department of Energy
12 DSM Dynamic Simulation Model
13 ECI Environmental Change Institute Oxford University
14 EERE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
15 EPBD Energy Performance Buildings Directive
16 EPC Energy Performance Certificate
17 ESTA Energy Systems Trade Association
18 ETSI European Technical Standards Institute
19 EU European Union
20 EuroACE European Alliance of Companies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings
21 FAERO Federation of Authorised Energy Rating Organizations
22 FC Fuel Cell
23 FCC Federal Communications Committee
24 GOV UK Government
25 HA HecAre = 100 x Areas, 1 Area = 100m2
26 ICBM InterContinental Ballistic Missiles
27 IEE Institute of Electrical Engineering
28 IEEE Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
29 IET Institution of Engineering and Technology
30 ITU International Telecommunications Union
31 kWpa kilo Watts per annum = 1000W/year
32 MCFC Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell
33 NDEPC Non-Domestic Energy Performance Certificate
34 NETL National Energy Technology Laboratory
35 NHER National Energy Centre
36 NPL National Physics Laboratory
37 ORM Operational Ranging Methodology
38 PAFC Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell
39 PEFC Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell
40 PEMFC Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell
41 RdSAP Reduced Data Standard Assessment Produce
42 ref Bibliography Reference
43 RICS Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
44 SAP Standard Assessment Procedure
45 SBEM Simplified Building Energy Model
46 SECA Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance
47 SOFC Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
48 UAV Unmanned Air Vehicle
49 UN United Nations
50 WWII World War II