Appendix E
Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms
ADEPT |
Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology |
AEP |
Advanced Energy Projects Division |
ALPHA |
Accelerating Low-Cost Plasma Heating and Assembly |
America COMPETES Act |
America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act of 2007 |
AMO |
Advanced Manufacturing Office |
AMPED |
Advanced Management and Protection of Energy Storage Devices |
API |
application programming interface |
ARID |
Advanced Research in Dry Cooling |
ARPA |
Advanced Research Projects Agency |
ARRA |
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 |
BEEST |
Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation |
BEETIT |
Building Energy Efficiency Through Innovative Thermal devices |
BES |
Basic Energy Sciences |
BPT |
bipolar junction technology |
CEO |
chief executive officer |
CFDA |
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance |
CHARGES |
Cycling Hardware to Analyze and Ready Grid-scale Electricity Storage |
DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
DELTA |
Delivering Efficient Local Thermal Amenities |
DNI |
direct normal incidence |
DoD |
U.S. Department of Defense |
DOE |
U.S. Department of Energy |
DSB |
Defense Science Board |
EERE |
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy |
ELECTROFUELS |
Microorganisms for Liquid Transportation Fuel |
ENLITENED |
ENergy-efficient Light-wave Integrated Technology Enabling Networks that Enhance Datacenters |
EPACT |
Energy Policy Act of 2005 |
FE |
Office of Fossil Energy |
FOA |
Funding Opportunity Announcement |
FOCUS |
Full-spectrum Optimized Conversion and Utilization of Sunlight |
GAO |
U.S. Government Accountability Office |
GENI |
Green Electricity Network Generation |
GENSETS |
GENerators for Small Electrical and Thermal Systems |
GPS |
Global Positioning System |
GRID DATA |
Generating Realistic Information for the Development of Distribution And Transmission Algorithms |
GRIDS |
Grid-scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage |
HEATS |
High-Energy Advanced Thermal Storage |
HSARPA |
Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency |
HTML |
HyperText Markup Language |
IBM |
International Business Machines |
IDEAS |
Innovative Development in Energy-related Applied Science |
IMPACCT |
Innovative Materials and Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies |
IONICS |
Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion-Conducting Solids |
IPO |
initial public offering |
ISAT |
Information Science and Technology |
KWh |
kilowatt hour |
LBNL |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
LG |
Lucky Goldstar |
METALS |
Modern Electro/Thermochemical Advances in Light metals Systems |
MONITOR |
Methane Observation Networks with Innovative Technology to Obtain Reductions |
MOSAIC |
Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated Concentration |
MOSFET |
metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor |
MOVE |
Methane Opportunities for Vehicular Energy |
NAS |
National Academy of Sciences |
NEXTCAR |
NEXT-generation energy technologies for Connected and Automated on-Road vehicles |
NICT |
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology |
NIH |
National Institutes of Health |
NODES |
Network Optimized Distributed Energy Systems |
NRC |
National Research Council |
NSF |
National Science Foundation |
OE |
Office of Electricity |
OMB |
Office of Management and Budget |
PD |
program director |
PEMD |
Program Evaluation and Methodology Division |
PETRO |
Plants Engineered To Replace Oil |
PI |
principal investigator |
PM |
program manager |
R&D |
research and development |
RANGE |
Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy storage systems |
REACT |
Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies |
REBELS |
Reliable Electricity Based on Electrochemical Systems |
REFUEL |
Renewable Energy to Fuels through Utilization of Energy-dense Liquids |
REMOTE |
Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy |
RFI |
request for information |
ROOTS |
Rhizosphere Observations Optimizing Terrestrial Sequestration |
SBIR/STTR |
Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer |
SEC |
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |
SETA |
systems engineering and technical assistance |
SHIELD |
Single-pane Highly Insulating Efficient Lucid Designs |
SLIPS |
Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces |
Solar ADEPT |
Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology |
SoT |
statement of task |
STI |
SLIPS Technologies, Inc. |
SWITCHES |
Strategies for Wide-bandgap, Inexpensive Transistors for Controlling High-Efficiency Systems |
T2M |
technology-to-market |
TERRA |
Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture |
TRANSNET |
Traveler Response Architecture using Novel Signaling for Network Efficiency in Transportation |
TRL |
technology readiness level |
USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
USPTO |
United States Patent and Trademark Office |
VTO |
Vehicle Technology Office |
WBG |
wide-bandgap materials |
WOS |
Web of Science |