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Acrimonious Acronyms
Potpourri
100
A component of contra-revenue, this program routinely provides over $30 million a year in incentives to customers on eligible products
What is the Loyalty (or Cash back) program?
100
A descriptive term for an upset stomach, as well as for a REP's conduit for power settlement with ERCOT
What is QSE (Qualified Scheduling Entity)?
100
This frigid event drove a nearly $10mm loss for TXU Energy, and was a loss of pride for a once-proud NFL franchise
What is the Super Bowl Ice Storm or the 2011 winter weather event?
200
This is the largest driver of MWh variance to Plan over the last 3 years.
What is Contract Signings?
200
We hit this over 70 times in 2011 but only once in 2012
What is the system wide offer cap (or SWOC)?
200
This alliterative activity is common parlance for an off cycle purchase of forward power
What is a "Big Buy"?
300
This was TXU Energy's largest non-commodity revenue item in 2012.
What are Late Fees?
300
Also known as an "actuals bust"
What is a PPA?
300
The generic nomenclature for an unknown or difficult to explain driver of rate variance
What is "Other"? (Also acceptable: "mix", "rounding")
400
Used in FLASH analysis to analyze the price curve, this phenomenon describes the flatness or peakedness of data relative to a normal distribution.
What is Bonskowski's Peak? (or Kurtosis)
400
Not be confused with its attention deficient cousin, this acronym is a key driver of volume related variance
What is an EDD (Energy Degree Days)?
400
This was the Management EBITDA variance to Plan for 2012
What is $35 million?
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