Acronimi

 ACEA   Azienda Comunale Energia e Ambiente (Municipal Energy and Environment Company)  
 AEEG   Autorità dell’Energia Elettrica e del Gas (Italian Authority for Electricity and Gas)  
 AGC   Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (Italian Antitrust Authority)  
 AIT   Average Interruptioni Time  
 ASA   Average System Availability  
 AU   Acquirente Unico (Italian Single Buyeri)  
 BoD   Board of Directors  
 CdP   Cassa Depositi e Prestiti  
 CEI   Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano (Italian Electrotechnical Committee) 
 CESI   Centro Elettrotecnico Sperimentale Italiano (Italian Electrotechnical Testing Centre)  
 CIGRE   Conseil International des Grands Réseaux Electriques à Haute Tension  
 CONSOB   Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (National Commission for Companies and the Stock  
   Exchange) 
 CSR   Corporate Social Responsibility  
 DAEM   Day Ahead Energy Market  
 DP   Development Plan of the national transmission electricity grid  
 DPS   Dividend Per Share  
 DT   Distance Training  
 EBIT   Earnings Before Interest and Taxes  
 EIA   Environmental Impact Assessment  
 EMO   Energy Market Operator  
 EMS   Energy Management System  
 ENS   Energy Not Supplied  
 EPS   Earnings Per Share  
 EPSES   Emergency Plan for the Security of the Electricity System  
 ERA   Exclusion, Repulsion, Attraction  
 ETSO   European Transmissioni System Operators  
 GAAP   Generally Accepted Accounting Principles  
 GIS   Geographic Information System  
 GRI   Global Reporting Initiative  
 GRTN   Gestore della Rete di Trasmissione Nazionale (National Transmission Grid Operator)  
 GSE   Gestore Servizi Elettrici (Electric Services Management)  
 HV   High Voltage 
 IEA   International Energy Agency  
 IPD   Individual Protection Device  
 IPO   Initial Public Offering  
 ISPRA   Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale  
 ISTAT   Italian National Statistics Institute  
 MBI   Maintenance and Business Intelligence  
 MBO   Management By Objectives  
 MDS   Market for Dispatchingi Services  
 MED   Ministry of Economic Development  
 MEF   Ministry of Economy and Finance  
 MELC   Ministry for the Environment and Land Conservation  
 MPA   Ministry for Productive Activities (now the Ministry for Economic Development MED)  
 N.A.   Not Available  
 NCC   National Control Centre  
 NTG   National Transmission Grid  
 OECD   Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development  
 PCB   Polychlorinated biphenyls  
 PCT   Polychlorinated terphenyls  
 ROACE   Returns on Average Capital Employed  
 S&P   Standard & Poor’s  
 SCADA   Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition  
 SEA   Strategic Environmental Assessment  
 SETSO   South European Transmission System Operators  
 SISTAN   National Statistical System  
 SRI   Socially Responsible Investment  
 TFR   Trattamento di Fine Rapporto (Staff Severance Indemnity)  
 TOA   Transmission Operational Area  
 TSO   Transmission System Operator  
 TSR   Total Shareholder Return  
 UCTE   Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity  
 VHV   Very High Voltage  
 ZPS   Special Protection Area