List of acronyms [not exhaustive]

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3GPP
3rd Generation Partnership Project
ABINEE
Associação Brasileira Da Indústria Elétrica E Electrônica (Brazilian Electrical and Electronics Industry Association)
ABNT
Association of Brazilian Technical Standards
ACCSQ
ASEAN Consultative Committee on Standards and Quality
ACER
Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators
ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
ACONOQ
Agence Congolaise de Normalisation et de la Qualité
AEI-EI
ASEAN Engineering Inspectorate-Electrical Installation
AFEO
ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations
AFID
Alliance for Industry Decarbonization
AFSEC
African Electrotechnical Standardization Commission
AHMAQ
Association Haïtienne de Management de la Qualité
AIDMO
Arab Industrial Development and Mining Organization
AIDSMO
Arab Industrial Development, Standardization and Mining Organization
AIOTI
Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation
AISEC
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security
AIST
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
AMO
Advanced Manufacturing Office
AMP
Advanced Manufacturing Partnership
ANCE
Asociación de Normalización y Certificación (Association for Standardization and Certification, Mexico)
ANE, I.P.
Autoridade Nacional Para a Electricidade, Instituto Público (Timor-Leste)
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
APCF
Asian Pacific Community Fund
APEC
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
AQSIQ
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine [of China]
ARE
Alliance for Rural Electrification
ARPANET
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
ARSO
African Organization for Standardization
ASCE
American Society of Civil Engineers
ASEA
Association des Sociétés d’Electricité d’Afrique
ASEAN
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASG
Asian Super Grid
ASME
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
BBF
Broadband Forum
BioRoboost
European Commission-funded initiative to enhance biosafety and risk assessment in synthetic biology standards
BIPM
Bureau international des poids et mesures
BIS
Bureau of Indian Standards
BITKOM
German Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media
BPS
Bureau of Philippine Standards
BRAIN
Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnology (US initiative)
BSI
British Standards Institution
BSTI
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution
BSN
Badan Standardisasi Nasional (Indonesia)
CANAME
National Chamber of Electrical Manufacturers (Mexico)
CANENA
Council for Harmonization of Electrotechnical Standards of the Nations in the Americas
CAPE
China Aero-Polytechnology Establishment
CARICOM
Caribbean Community
CEER
Council of European Energy Regulators
CEN
European Committee for Standardization
CENELEC
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
CEPRI
China Electric Power Research Institute
CEPS
Centre for European Policy Studies
CESI
China Electronics Standardization Institute
China-EPRI
China Electric Power Research Institute
CHYE
China Huaneng Yangtze Environmental Technology Co.
CIE
International Commission on Illumination
CIE
Chinese Institute of Electronics
CIER
Commission for the Regional Integration of Energy
CIGRE
International Council on Large Electric Systems
COMBINE
Computational Modeling in Biology initiative
ComEd
Commonwealth Edison
COMENOR
Consejo Mexicano de Normalización y Evaluación de la Conformidad
COPANT
Pan American Standards Commission
COSMOS
(EU) Coordination of Standards in MetabOlomicS
CROSQ
CARICOM Regional Organization for Standards and Quality
CSA
Cloud Security Alliance
CSG
China Southern Power Grid
CSN
Commonwealth Standards Network
CSPG
China Southern Power Grid
DFKI
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
DIN
German Institute for Standardization
DKE
German Commission for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies of DIN and VDE
DRI
Department of Research and Innovation, in the Ministry of Education, Myanmar DTI Department
DSM
Department of Standards Malaysia
EAC
East African Community
EACREEE
East African Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy and Efficiency
EASC
East African Standards Committee
EC
European Commission
ECOWAS
Economic Community of West African States
ECREEE
ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
EDITH
European Virtual Human Twin Infrastructure
EEC
Eurasian Economic Commission
EMAS
EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
ENI
Experiential Networked Intelligence [of ETSI ISG]
ENTSO-E
European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity
EPRI
Electric Power Research Institute
ERABF
Energy Resource Aggregation Business Forum
ESERA
Eswatini Energy Regulatory Authority
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
ETSO
European Transmission System Operators
EU
European Union
EWEA
European Wind Energy Association
FDA
Food and Drug Administration (US)
FG-ML5G
Focus Group on machine learning for future networks including 5G [of ITU-T]
FINCA
Forum of IEC National Committees of the Americas
Fraunhofer ISE
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
GCC
Gulf Cooperation Council
GDIS
Guangdong Institute of Standardization
GFMAM
Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management
GIVAR
Grid Integration of Variable Renewables Project [of IEA]
GOM
Group for Ontology Maintenance
GOUI
Global Observatory for Urban Intelligence
GSO
GCC Standardization Organization
HAPUA
Heads of ASEAN Power Utilities/Authorities
IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency
IAF
International Accreditation Forum
IAM
Institute of Asset Management
IBNORCA
Instituto Boliviano de Normalización y Calidad
ICONTEC
Instituto Colombiano de Normas Técnicas y Certificación (Colombian Institute of Technical Standards and Certification)
IDC
International Data Corporation
IEA
International Energy Agency
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEM
The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
IFAN
International Federation of Standards Users
IFC
International Finance Corporation
IFIA
International Federation of Inspection Agencies
IGCC
International Grid Control Cooperation
IIC
Industrial Internet Consortium
ILAC
International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation
IMDRF
International Medical Device Regulators Forum
IMFCEF
International Monetary Fund Middle East Center for Economics and Finance
IMO
International Maritime Organization
INACAL
National Quality Institute (Peru)
INDOCAL
Dominican Institute for Quality
INEEL
National Institute of Electricity and Clean Energy (Mexico)
INEN
Servicio Ecuatoriano de Normalización
INetQI
International Network of Quality Infrastructure [formely DCMAS]
INNOQ
Instituto Nacional de Normalização e Qualidade (Mozambique)
IOU
Investor-owned utility
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IRAM
Instituto Argentino de Normalización y Certificación
IRENA
International Renewable Energy Agency
ISC
Institute of Standards of Cambodia
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
ISTIC
International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre
ITC
International Trade Center
ITEI
Instrumentation Technology and Economy Institute [of China]
ITU
International Telecommunication Union
ITU-R
ITU Radiocommunication Sector
ITU-T
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector
IVGTF
Integration of Variable Generation Task Force [of NERC]
JAIF
Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund
JBMIA
Japan Business Machine and Information System Industries Association
JEPX
Japan Electric Power Exchange
JISC
Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
KATS
Korean Agency for Technology and Standards
KEBS
Kenya Bureau of Standards
KEPCO
Korea Electric Power Corporation
KERI
Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute
KPX
Korea Power Exchange
METI
Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPGCA
Marrakesh Partnership for Global Climate Action
NCOIC
Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium
NDRC
National Development and Reform Commission [of China]
NEA
National Energy Administration [of China]
NERC
North American Electric Reliability Corporation
NGET
National Grid Electricity Transmission [of Great Britain]
NGMIN
Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NSI
Namibian Standards Institution
NYISO
New York Independent System Operator
OCEANIS
Open Community for Ethics in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OGC
Open Geospatial Consortium
OIML
International Organization of Legal Metrology
OMA
Open Mobile Alliance
PAHO
Pan American Health Organization
PASC
Pacific Area Sandards Congress
PES
Power & Energy Society [of IEEE]
PEWA
Power & Electricity World Africa
PLMA
Peak Load Management Alliance
PPA
Pacific Power Association
PSCCC
Power System Communications and Cybersecurity Committee (IEEE)
PTB
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (German National Metrology Institute)
PSI
Palestine Standards Institution
RNF
(Association) Réseau Normalisation et Francophonie
SAC
Standardization Administration of China
SADC
Southern African Development Community
SADCSTAN
Southern African Development Community Cooperation in Standards
SAEEC
Southern African Energy Efficiency Confederation
SAPP
Southern African Power Pool
SARM
National Institute of Standards (Armenia)
SARSO
South Asian Regional Standards Organization
SCC
Standards Coordinating Committee (IEEE)
SCSC
Sub-committee on Standards and Conformance (APEC)
SE4ALL
United Nations Sustainable Energy for All initiative
SGCC
State Grid Corporation of China
SMLC
Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition
SMRP
Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals
STAMEQ
The Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality, Vietnam
SPP
Southwest Power Pool
SWASA
Eswatini Standards Authority
TBS
Tanzania Bureau of Standards
TBT
Technical Barriers to Trade
TCTP
Third Country Training Programme
TEPCO
Tokyo Electric Power Company
TüV
Technical Inspection Association [of Germany]
UCTE
Union for the Coordination of the Transmission of Electricity
UIC
International Union of Railways
UL
Underwriters Laboratories
UN
United Nations
UN SDGs
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
UNECE
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
UNEP
United Nations Environment Programme
UNEZA
Utilities for Net Zero Alliance
UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNIDO
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UWIG
Utility Wing Integration Group
UZSTANDARD
Agency for Standardization, Metrology and Certification (Uzbekistan)
VAMAS
Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards
VDE
Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies
VDMA
Mechanical Engineering Industry Association [of Germany]
VSQI
Vietnam Standards and Quality Institute
W3C
World Wide Web Consortium
WBG
World Bank Group
WECC
Western Electricity Coordinating Council
WHO
World Health Organization
WSC
World Standards Cooperation
WTERT
Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council
WTO
World Trade Organization
ZVEI
Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association [of Germany]
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