Category: General

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Systematic, documented verification process of objectively obtaining and evaluating audit evidence to determine whether specified environmental activities, events, conditions, management systems or information about these matters conform with audit criteria

Capacity beyond what is required to fulfill current demand

A company that provides energy management services, frequently compensated on the basis of energy cost savings provided. The ESCOS plan the energy saving program for the buildings, provide the financing for the equipment required, install the equipment and operate for a set time determined a priori. The client does not have to invest anything and the ESCO receives his ROI from the profits made on the energy saving

A network control system, usually computerized, which is used by utilities to monitor various aspects of the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity

The fund invented the cap-and-trade system for cutting carbon emissions. The mechanism involves putting a cap on overall emissions and allows companies to buy and sell emissions reductions, so that the cheapest cuts get made first. The EDF suggested this in the 1990s as a way of cutting sulfur-dioxide emissions from power stations.