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Some useful definitions used when talking about the enGauge system from mySmart CTI

• NABERS is the National Building Environmental Rating Scheme, NABERS ratings are generally applicable to existing buildings
• GBCA is the Green Building Council of Australia this organisation certifies Green Star Ratings for new buildings
• Watt (W) is a measure of electrical power the rate of doing work of one joule per second (1W=1J/s)
• Kilowatt hour (kWh) a measure of power – one kilowatt being used for a period of one hour
• Kilowatt (kW) the commercial unit of electrical power: 1000 Watts (W)
• Energy is the capacity of a physical system to do work, the electrical term commonly used is kilowatt hours (kWh)
• Joule (J) is the international unit for energy, gas is represented in joules
• One kilowatt hour (kWh) is equivalent to 3,600,000 joules (J) or 3.6MJ
• Embodied energy is the amount of energy required to make a product from extraction, manufacture, package, transport, installation and disposal
• Standby power is electric power consumed by appliances while switched off or in standby mode, known as vampire power, phantom load or leaking electricity
• Sustainability is the practice of minimising impact on the environment; a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely
• ABARE is the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics, and Australian government economic research agency
• Sequestration it the removal of CO2 from our atmosphere through the biologically process of photosynthesis in plants and trees or geological process of carbon capture and storage
• Carbon offset is the practice of investing in carbon-sequestering activities including tree planting, renewable energy, energy conservation & methane capture
• Greenhouse gas is the collective term for various gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect, including: CO₂, CO, CH₄, N₂O, CF₄, C₂F₆, SF₆, PFC & HFC
• Global Warming Potential is the density of greenhouse gases in comparison to CO2; methane has a GWP of 23, 582 kg of methane = 13.4 tonnes CO2