Glossary
Terms from the Norwegian energy sector and technology - explained by practitioners who use them every day. Discover semantic connections and technical references. 378+ terms.
The residual in a grid area: everything fed in, minus everything measured out, minus grid losses. Distributed across the profile-settled customers.
Process where the difference between planned and actual power exchange is reconciled - essential for the power market to function.
ENTSO-E's European profile of CIM - the narrowed format TSOs actually use to exchange grid models across borders.
Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive - EU directive requiring detailed sustainability reporting from large companies starting 2024.
Nordic profile of the EDI EDIFACT standard - used for electronic message exchange in the Nordic power market via Elhub.
Three different file transfer protocols that are often confused. FTPS is FTP with security added; SFTP is something else entirely that inherited the name.
Packet-switched mobile data standard (2.5G) used for remote reading of electricity meters.
A text-based Norwegian file format for exchanging metering values, in use in the power sector since long before Elhub.
Management of IT infrastructure through machine-readable configuration files rather than manual processes.
Quality-adjusted Revenue (Kvalitetsjustert inntektsramme) - economic regulation where grid companies are penalised for power outages based on their cost to customers.
Experienced person who guides and supports a less experienced person in professional and personal development.
Software architecture where all components are compiled and deployed together as one unit.
Measure of the reliability and stability of power supply - includes outage frequency, duration and voltage quality.
Concrete and detailed information about the power supply that can be used to harm it. Subject to a duty of confidentiality under the Norwegian power emergency preparedness regulation, section 6-2.
Settlement against an assumed consumption curve instead of actual hourly readings. The counterpart to hourly settlement.
Open source tool for Infrastructure as Code - defines cloud infrastructure in declarative configuration files.
Programming style where AI writes most of the code while the developer steers direction in natural language.
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