British Electricity Transmission and Trading Arrangements – the extension of the NETA market rules to include Scotland

Bid Offer Acceptance Instruction – a short term instruction issued by National Grid in the UK to alter the contracted generation plan (the PN).

The Sentinel module that imports data from files and creates and exports files from data within the Sentinel database.

Constraints are a subset of Events. Constraints are Events that have an effect on the plant availability and are used by Sentinel in the calculation of Technical Availability.

The location from which the generation asset is operated, usually the power station or in the case of wind farms, a central control centre.

The process whereby data from plant historian software is validated and averaged or totaled over the settlement period

Disaster Recovery – the term is usually associated with a plan or system that allows normal operation of the business processes with minimal interruption.

Energy Contract Volume – the information about electricity contracts (price and energy per half hour) notified to Elexon by the Sentinel CNS.

Electronic Data Logging – a system which connects to National Grid which is used to communicate short term system balancing instructions to the Control Point. It is also used to update plant parameter [..]

Electronic Data Transfer – a system which is used by an EMC to communicate generation plans and bids and offer data to National Grid