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9. ARR (Annual Required Revenue) and ERC ( expected Revenue from Charges)

10. Merit Order Procurement / backing

11. Electricity Supply regulations (rules of supply)

Technical

1. Heat rate

2. Peak power is more expensive than base load supply3. Economics of power generation at various levels of capacity utilization for same

fuel based plant and for various forms of fuel

4. Coal based and nuclear Thermal plants used to meet base load

5. Hydel, diesel and gas based plants used for fluctuating loads / peak loads6. Base load / Peak Load

7. Frequency maintenance

8. Load factor

9. Connected Load10. Reactive power

11. Contract load12. Power factor

Commercial

1. Tariff policy

2. Electricity Pricing3. Competitive pricing

4. Margin based pricing

5. Availability based pricing6. Inter state trading

7. T&D losses

8. Technical and Commercial losses9. Theft of power

10. Subsidy / Cross subsidy

11. Free power

12. Metered and un-metered supply13. Distribution margin

14. Capital cost bench-making

15. TOD metering16. Demand estimation

17. Consumption pattern

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Domain

1. Energy applications - Thermal, motive power2. Electricity most versatile for of energy

3. Electricity cannot be stored has to be consumed as it is produced, has to be

stored in a different form such as pumped storage during lean periods4. Energy policy

5. Energy as engine of economic growth

6. Energy substitution7. Natural monopoly

8. Allocation of power

9. Grid maintenance

10. Open access11. Wheeling and banking

12. Voltage and frequency maintenance

13. Generation, Transmission Distribution

14. EHT, HV, MV, LV Supply15. Grid discipline, stability and maintenance

16. Electricity network17. Pumped Storage

18. Energy and Economic Development

19. Input output matrix

20. Energy production as a surrogate for economic activity21. Energy Conservation

22. Energy Intensity

23. Loss reduction / energy saved at consumer end is equivalent to about 1.5 timesenergy produced

24. Energy and Emission (Pollution)

25. Waste heat recovery26. Green house gases

27. Green labeling

28. Efficiency benchmarks29. Kyoto Protocol

30. Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

31. Carbon trading / emission trading

32. Multi purpose dams (reservoirs) ; power and irrigation

Perfect market/completionno individual buyer/seller can affect the tariff/market price