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Terms from the Norwegian energy sector and technology - explained by practitioners who use them every day. Discover semantic connections and technical references. 378+ terms.

📅 Term of the dayOperational Technology (OT) →Systems and software that monitor and control physical equipment in industrial settings and power grids.
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Technology & platformNewBilateral

Messages travel directly between two parties, without passing through a shared hub. The opposite of the centralised model Elhub is built on. Also called point-to-point.

#Architecture#Integration#Meldingsutveksling
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Energy domainCGM

The common grid model - the assembled data set European TSOs agree on, built from each area's own model and used as the basis for capacity calculation and operational security analysis across borders.

#Integration#OT#Standard
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AIClaude Code

Anthropic's AI coding assistant - integrated into the terminal and IDEs for agentic software development.

#AI#Development#Tools
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Energy domainComponent

A replaceable part inside a fixed asset. It has its own age, its own history and its own service life - independent of the asset it sits in.

#Anlegg#Vedlikehold
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System typesNewConcentrator

The collection point that pulls metering values from many smart meters and passes them on to the collection system in batches.

#System#Measurement#Infrastructure
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AICopilot

Microsoft's brand for AI assistants integrated into products such as Teams, Word, Excel and Azure - powered by underlying LLM technology.

#AI#Microsoft#Tools
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Regulatory & complianceEU Taxonomy

EU's classification system for sustainable economic activities - determines which investments can be labeled 'green'.

#Sustainability#Regulation#Economics
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Industry & actorsNewFDV

Forvaltning, drift og vedlikehold: asset management, operation and maintenance. The Norwegian collective term for everything that has to follow an installation through its life: what is there, how it is run and what has been done to it.

#Anlegg#Documentation#Vedlikehold
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System typesNewField service

System for planning, assigning and following up work carried out in the field - meter changes, component installation and inspections.

#System#Operations#Infrastructure
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Energy domainFixed asset

Physical equipment owned and used over time - transformer, cable, breaker. It has both a technical and an accounting side, and the two rarely agree.

#Anlegg#Vedlikehold#Regnskap
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AIGemini

Google's family of large language models (LLM) - integrated in Google Cloud and Workspace for AI-assisted work processes.

#AI
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Industry productNewIFS

Swedish software company, founded in Linköping in 1983. Known for ERP and maintenance solutions aimed at asset-heavy organisations, and widely used among Nordic energy and industrial companies.

#ERP#Vedlikehold#Systemleverandør
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Regulatory & complianceISMS

The management system - policies, roles, risk assessments and procedures - that ISO 27001 sets requirements for. The certification proves the ISMS actually works.

#Security
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System typesMDM

Meter Data Management - system for collection, storage, quality assurance and distribution of metering data from the electricity grid.

#System#Data
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Industry & actorsMetering service operator

Actor responsible for reading, collecting and quality-assuring metering data from AMS meters.

#Actor#Measurement
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Protocols & StandardsOAuth 2.0

Industry standard for delegated authorisation - allows users to grant third-party applications controlled access without sharing passwords.

#Security#Authentication#Standard
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Energy domainProfile settlement

Settlement against an assumed consumption curve instead of actual hourly readings. The counterpart to hourly settlement.

#Elhub#Avregning
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Protocols & StandardsSAML

Security Assertion Markup Language - XML-based protocol for identity federation and SSO between systems.

#Security#Authentication#Standard
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Product (Tvimenning)SPIRA

Tvimenning's metering point and asset register - your single source of truth for master data, with a built-in validation engine and Elhub integration.

#Product#Data#Elhub
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Nordic-specific termTiwaz

The rune ᛏ - seventeenth in the Elder Futhark and the one that names Týr's aett. Called after Týr, the Norse god of law, assembly and the sworn oath. Tvimenning's logo is built from this rune.

#Culture#Old Norse#Historie
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