WORD ABBREVIATION

PEC – Philippine Electrical Code NEC – National Electrical Code

PEP – Philippine Energy Plan ACSR – Aluminum Cable Steel Reinforce

PDC – Philippine Distribution Code SOLR – Supplier of Last Resort

EPIRA – Electric Power Industry Reform Act SGC – Successor Generation Company

PSALM – Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management CREM – Competitive Retail Electricity
Market

JCPC – Joint Congressional Power Commission PEMC – Philippine Electricity Market Corporation

TSC – Transition Supply Contract OARC – Open Access and Retail Competition

ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange

WESM – Wholesale Electricity Spot Market SPUG – Small Power Utilities Group

UPS – Uninterruptible Power Supply RES – Retail Electricity Supplier

DECS – Department of Education, Culture and Sports

CHED – Commission of Higher Education

TESDA – Technical Education Skills Development Authority IIEE – institute of Integrated Electrical
Engineers

CPE – Continuing Professional Education

BCD – Binary Code Decimal WWW – World Wide Web

ALU – Arithmetic Logic Unit

BIOS – Basic Input Output System

CD ROM – Compact Disk Read Only Memory

HTML – Hypertext Market Language

HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol CPU – Central Processing Unit

FTTH – Fiber to the Home

LED – Light Emitting Diode

USB – Universal Serial Bus