List of Energy Abbreviations - C

C

  • C&I—Commercial and industrial customers (Electricity transmission)
  • CA—Carbon Abatement- increasing carbon neutrality
    • —Control area (EU) – The portion of the generation and transmission system controlled by a single transmission system operator. (See also TSO).
  • CAA—Clean Air Act (US)
  • CAEM—Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets (US)
  • CAFE—Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards (US)
  • CAISO—California Independent System Operator Corporation, a Regional Transmission Organization. (US)
  • CAP—Capacity market programs
  • CAPM—Capital asset pricing model
  • CARB—California Air Resources Board
  • CBL—Customer Baseline Load
  • CBM—Capacity Benefit Margin
  • CBOB—Conventional Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygenate Blending (Motor Gasoline Blending Component)
  • CC—Combined cycle see also CCPP and CCGT
  • CC—Combined cycle Gas turbine electricity generator
  • CCIP—Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection (New Zealand)
  • CCLIP—Conditional Credit Line for Investment Projects
  • CCPG—Colorado Coordinated Planning Group
  • CCPP—Combined cycle power plant
  • CD—Contract Demand
  • CDD—Cooling degree day, a qualitative index used to reflect the demand for energy to cool a business
  • CDM—Clean Development Mechanism
  • CEA—Country Environmental Analysis
  • CEC—California Energy Commission
    • —Commission for Environmental Cooperation
    • —Council of the European Communities
  • CEEC—Central and Eastern European Countries
  • CEP—Country Environmental Profile
    • —Clean Energy Partnership, a joint hydrogen-project in Europe.
  • CEPS—Centre for European Policy Studies
  • CEPII—Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales Economics think tank
  • CEQ—Council on Environmental Quality
  • CER—Certified Emission Reduction
  • CERA—Cambridge Energy Research Associates
  • CERCLA—Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act "Superfund" (US)
  • CERCLIS—Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (US)
  • CERTS—Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions sposored by the United States Department of Energy and California Energy Commission (US)
  • CfD—Contract for difference
  • CFS—cubic feet per second
  • CFTC—Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • CH4—Methane
  • CHP—Combined heat and power
  • CIAC—Contributions in Aid of Construction
  • CIP—Critical Infrastructure Protection (US)
  • —see also EPCIP European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection
  • CCIP—Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection (New Zealand)
  • CMVE—Competitive Market Value Estimate
  • CNG—Compressed natural gas
  • CO—Carbon monoxide
  • CO2—Carbon dioxide
  • COC—Cost of capital
  • COE—U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • CP—Coincident Peak
    • —Certificate Proceeding
  • CPA—California Power Authority
  • CPI—Consumer Price Index
  • CPP—Critical Peak Pricing
  • CPP-F—Critical peak fixed
  • CPP-F—Critical peak variable
  • CPS—Control Performance Standard
    • —Cycles per second (hertz)
  • CPUC—California Public Utilities Commission
  • CREF—Caribbean Renewable Energy Facility
  • CRP—Conservation Reserve Program (US)
  • CRT—Capacity Reservation Tariff
  • CSD—Commission for Sustainable Development (UN)
  • CSEM—Center for the Study of Energy Markets (US)
  • CSP—Country Strategy Paper
    • —Curtailment service provider
  • CT—Combustion turbine (electricity)
  • CZMA—Coastal Zone Management Act

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