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Glossary of acronyms and terms used in this report
BY | Base Year |
CCA | Climate Change Agreement |
CCGT | Combined Cycle Gas Turbine |
CH 4 | Methane |
CHP | Combined Heat & Power |
CO 2 | Carbon dioxide |
C&B | Commercial & Buildings |
CTS | Carbon Trust in Scotland |
CV | Calorific Value |
DA | Devolved Administration |
DEFRA | Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs |
DTI | Department of Trade and Industry |
DUKES | Digest of UK Energy Statistics |
EE | Energy Efficiency |
EUETS | European Union Emissions Trading Scheme |
GHG | Greenhouse Gas |
GW | Giga watt (1 million kW) |
GWh | Giga watt hour (1 million kWh) |
HFC | Hydrofluorocarbons |
HFO | Heavy Fuel Oil |
IPPC | Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control |
Kt | Kilo tonne (1000 tonnes) |
LPG | Liquid Petroleum Gas |
LUFC | Land Use Changes and Forestry |
MPP | Major Power Producer (or Plant) |
MSW | Municipal Solid Waste |
Mt | Mega tonne (1 million tonnes) |
Mtoe | Million tonnes oil equivalent |
MW | Mega watt (1 thousand kW) |
MWh | Mega watt hour (1 thousand kWh) |
N 2O | Nitrous oxide |
NAEI | National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory |
NAP | National Allocation Plan (for EU- ETS) |
Netcen | National Environmental Technology Centre (authors of NAEI) |
NI | Northern Ireland |
PFC | Perfluorocarbons |
PJ | Peta Joule (1,000,000,000,000,000 Joules) |
PS | Public Sector |
RE | Renewable Energy |
RO | Renewables Obligation |
ROI | Republic of Ireland |
SAP | Standard Assessment Procedure, the Government's approved procedure for calculating a home energy rating |
SEPA | Scottish Environment Protection Agency |
SF 6 | Sulphur hexafluoride |
SO x | Oxides of Sulphur |
TWh | Terra watt hour (1,000 million kWh) |
WWF | World Wide Fund for Nature |
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