(a) Energy Star means a government-backed symbol for energy efficiency that is run by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
(b) ANSI means American National Standards Institute, a private non-profit organization that oversees standards and conformity assessment activities in the United States.
(c) AHAM means Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, represents manufacturers in the home appliance industry and helps to bring efficient appliances into homes.
(d) UL means an EPA-recognized certification body that can carry out product qualification and verification to ENERGY STAR requirements.
(e) IEC means International Electrotechnical Commission, a global, not-for-profit membership organization, whose work underpins quality infrastructure and international trade in electrical and electronic goods.
(f) CADR means Clean Air Delivery Rate, a measure of the amount of contaminant-free air delivered by the room air cleaner.
(g) ECOS means Environmental Council of the States, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan association of State and territorial environmental agency leaders.
(h) EPRI means Electric Power Research Institute, an independent non-profit energy research, development, and deployment organization with 14 offices around the world, including three specialized labs.
(i) ASTM formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials, means an international standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus standards.
(j) ACPI means Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, a power management specification developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba.
(k) ITU means International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies.
(l) ISO means International Organization for Standardization, an independent, non-governmental international organization with a membership of 167 national standards bodies.
(m) IEEE means Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an organization dedicated to advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity, is the world's largest technical professional society.
(n) IETF means Internet Engineering Task Force, a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.
(o) SGIP means Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, a vehicle for NIST to solicit input and cooperation from private and public sector stakeholders in developing the smart grid standards framework.
(p) NIST means The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a physical sciences laboratory and non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce.
(q) IES means Illuminating Engineering Society which is an industry-backed, not-for-profit, focused on improving the lighted environment by bringing together those with lighting knowledge and by translating that knowledge into actions that benefit the public.