energy
705 abbreviations
Abbreviation | Meaning | |
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LRG | liquefied refinery gases | |
LSE | Load serving entity | |
LSF | Load Shift Factor | |
lsfo | Low sulfur fuel oil | |
LWR | light water reactor | |
MAAC | Mid Atlantic Area Council (US- geographically within PJM) | |
MADRI | Mid Atlantic Distributed Resources Initiative (US) | |
MAIN | Mid America Interconnected Network (US) | |
MAOP | Maximum allowable operating pressure | |
MAPP | Mid Continent Area Power Pool (US) | |
MBD | million barrels per day | |
MBOED | One million barrels of oil equivalent(EU) | |
MBR | Market based Rates | |
MBS | Macro economic Budget Support | |
Mcf | Roman numeral "M" for one thousand cubic feet (measurement of natural gas) | |
MDD | Maximum Daily Delivery Obligations | |
MDDQ | Maximum Daily Delivery Quantity | |
MDM | Meter Data Management | |
MDQ | Maximum Daily Quantities | |
MECS | Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey | |
MEDREP | Mediterranean Renewables Energy Partnership | |
MEF | modified energy factor (clothes washers) | |
MER | Maximum efficient rate | |
MERC | Mobile Emission Reduction Credit (MERC) (US) | |
MFV | Modified fixed variable rate | |
MINHERS | Mortgage Industry National Home Energy Rating Systems Standards | |
MISO | Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. A Regional Transmission Organization. (US) | |
MLP | Maximum lawful price | |
MLRA | Major Land Resource Areas | |
MM | Used to denote million in gas usage | |
MMbbl/d | one million barrels of oil per day | |
MMBtu | 1 million British thermal units, same as dekatherm | |
MMC | Market Monitoring Center | |
MMCF | one million cubic feet (measurement of natural gas) | |
MMCFD | one million cubic feet per day | |
MMGAL | one million gallons | |
MMGAL/D | one million gallons per day | |
MMS | Mineral Management Service (US) | |
MMST | one million short tons | |
MODFLOW | model of groundwater flow | |
MOX | mixed oxide fuel (nuclear) | |
MPG | Miles per gallon | |
MRO | Midwest Reliability Organization (US) | |
MSA | metropolitan statistical area | |
MSHA | Mine Safety and Health Administration (US) | |
msl | Mean sea level | |
MSW | Municipal solid waste | |
Mt | one million tons (ambiguous as to whether short tons or metric tons) | |
MTBE | methyl tertiary butyl ether | |
MTEF | Medium Term Expenditure Framework |