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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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Energy domainBSL - Balance supplier for grid loss

The Elhub market role for the supplier covering grid losses in a network.

#Elhub#Markedsrolle
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Protocols & StandardsCondition-based maintenance

A maintenance tactic: continuously monitor a component's condition and intervene when the data shows a deviation - not on a fixed calendar. What FRAMSYN does in practice.

#Operations#Product
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Industry & actorsElmarknadshuben

Sweden's planned central system for metering data and market processes. Legislated, but not in operation.

#Actor#Infrastructure#Nordic
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Product (Tvimenning)HANDSAL

Tvimenning’s EDI server for bilateral message exchange: receives, translates, routes and acknowledges messages between companies and marketplaces.

#Product#Integration#B2B
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Technology & platformMulti-cloud

Strategy of using cloud services from multiple providers simultaneously - reduces vendor lock-in and increases resilience.

#Cloud#Strategy
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Technology & platformPair programming

Development practice where two developers work together at one machine - one writes code, one reviews and thinks - continuously and synchronously.

#Development#Methodology#Collaboration
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System typesReplicated Data

Copies of master data transferred from a System of Record (Master) to a receiving system (Slave/Replica). The data has the same content but is not owned or updated in the receiving system.

#Data#Architecture#Systemintegrasjon
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Regulatory & complianceSLA

Service Level Agreement - contract defining guaranteed availability and performance for a service.

#Contract#Quality
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Energy domainSLR - Supplier of last resort

The Elhub market role for the supplier obliged to sell power to end users without a contract of their own. Tvimenning is approved in this role.

#Elhub#Markedsrolle
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Technology & platformTechnical debt

Accumulated costs of quick, short-term technological decisions - makes future development slower and more expensive.

#Development#Methodology#Architecture
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Protocols & StandardsTLS

Cryptographic protocol that secures data in transit between two systems - the successor to SSL, and the reason data cannot be intercepted or altered along the way.

#Security
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System typesValidation

The first step in VEE - automated checks of metering data against technical and logical limits to detect obviously erroneous values.

#Data#Process
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