| Term | Description |
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| RAM | Retailers Adjustment to Market when a retailer has been over/under billed in a particular zone, they may send in a PFEC which results in RAM charges being allocated to all other retailers in a particular zone. |
| RDC | Revoke De-Energize Confirmation. This transaction cancels the previously sent DEC. |
| RDR | Revoke De-Energize Request. This transaction cancels the previously sent DER. |
| RDS | Regulated Default Supply, formally the Regulated Rate Option (RRO) The rate offered by the distribution facility owner for customers/members who have not chosen a competitive retailer. |
| REA | Rural Electrification Association - a not-for-profit cooperative, incorporated or continued under the Rural Utilities Act, which owns an electric distribution system and supplies electric energy to members in a rural region of Alberta . |
| Reactive Power | The portion of electricity that establishes and sustains the electric and magnetic fields of alternating current equipment. |
| Rebate Amount | Government rebate amount. Applies to 2001 only. |
| Record Status CA - Cancelled | CA - Cancelled This code indicates that the receiver should cancel their version of this exact record. Sending this record eliminates confusion of the records purpose: especially when the replacement record may not cover the same period as this cancelled record. |
| Reference Number | Reference number from EPSS. |
| Regulated Default Supply | The weighted monthly average price of actual weighted hourly average prices at which energy has been delivered at non-hedged prices during a given calendar month. |
| Regulated Default Supply Regulation | The regulation created under the Electric Utilities Act of 2003 that sets out the terms and conditions for regulated default supply of electric energy by a Wire Service Provider to a consumer who has not chosen a Retail Supplier. |
| Regulated Default Supply Tariff Regulation | The tariff for electric energy supply for consumers consuming less than 250,000 kWh of energy annually who come under the Regulated Default Supply Option under the EUB. |
| Regulating Reserve | A type of ancillary service in which the seller's generating unit responds to electronic control signals from a remote master controller that cause the unit to rapidly raise or lower its electric energy output. |
| Report Window | Reports are displayed in a spreadsheet type format, on the right side of the Report Screen. You can customize the reports by sizing, sorting and rearranging columns. Size Columns by dragging the boundary of the column heading until the column is the width you want. Sort Columns by clicking in the column heading of the column you want sorted. Rearrange Columns by dragging the column head to the left or right. |
| Reserve Generating Capacity | The extra generating capacity required on any power system over and above the expected peak load. Such a reserve is required mainly for two reasons: (i) in case of an unexpected breakdown of generating equipment; (ii) in case the actual peak load is higher than forecast. |
| Result Resource | Daily site usage kWh was calculated using: \"M\" - DIM or DCM containing any hour of Settlement Data. \"E\" - LSA - generated consumption estimate. |
| Retailer | A retail supplier of electricity to an end-use site that supplies billing and settlement services. |
| Retailer Adjustment to Market (RAM) | RAM is the billing method by which money is collected from all affected parties to pay for RSA claims. |
| Retailer Energy Grand Total (MWh) | Total of the consumption, line loss and UFE for the Retailer in MWh for the Power Pool. |
| Retailer Fee | Flat fee per site charged by the power supplier. |
| Retailer ID | Recipient (Retailer currently associated to the Site). |
| Retailer Loss Total (kWh) | Total of the losses allocated to all of the Retailer's customers. |
| Retailer of Record | The single Retailer that the settlement system recognizes as serving a given site for a given day. |
| Retailer Short Name | Abbreviation of the retailer's name. |
| Retailer Specific Adjustment (RSA) | RSA charges are a payment to a party, in response to billing errors that occurred after Final (PFAM claims). |
| Retailer UFE Total (kWh) | Total of the UFE allocated to the Retailer's customers. |
| Retailer Usage Total (kWh) | Total of the consumption for all of the Retailer's customers. |
| Rider | Government approved charges. |
| Rider Charge | Rider Charges are cost recoveries of an LSA with a start and end dates that have been approved by the EUB. |
| RISS | Retailer Information Settlement System. |
| ROC | Request Off-Cycle Meter Read Completion. |
| ROR | Request Off-Cycle Meter Read. |
| RRO | Regulated Rate Option. |
| RRR | Regulation on Roles, Relationships and Responsibilities. |
| RSA | Retailer Specific Adjustment. - This transaction is to correct any PFAM disputes a retailer has made. |
| RTO | Regional Transmission Organizationis chartered to facilitate the exchange of electric energy over large interconnected geographic areas; a concept developed and promoted by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. |
| RUA | Rural Utilities Act. |
| RUC | Request Update to Customer Infomation. |
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