Glossary of Terms

All associated functions to do with upgrading and maintaining facilities to applicable provincial legislation and prudent industry practices and standards i.e. electric distribution systems including vegetation management, upgrading, changing faulty transformers, preventative maintenance, system power quality, system planning, maintaining customer records, maintaining distribution system mapping.

Unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance of a circuit in which an electric potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere.

Fair and equitable access for generators and consumers of electric energy to the transmission system.

The capability above system demand available to Alberta's Interconnected Electric System within 10 minutes following a supply contingency required to provide for system regulation and local area protection and to correct or stabilize the system in the event of contingencies, load forecasting errors and forced outages to Generating Units.