DATASET · glossary
Glossary
The terms the corpus uses, defined once, with the records that use them.
- term string
- Term
- definition string
- Definition
- related string
- Pipe-separated record ids
| term | definition | related |
|---|---|---|
| Airform One | Airform's mass-manufactured heat pump with an integrated battery and liquid-cooled hydronic core, sealed at the factory and installed without an HVAC technician or dedicated electrician. | the-machine |
| node | One installed Airform unit considered as a member of the federation: a thermal load, a battery and a controller at a known location on the grid. | the-machine | federation |
| federation | The coordinated fleet of nodes, offering the grid a bounded, measurable flexibility service while each node serves its own building first. | federation | storage-as-byproduct |
| storage at the point of load | Battery capacity located inside the building that consumes the energy, so that it needs no interconnection queue and can flatten the building's own peak. | storage-as-byproduct | switchgear-deletion |
| thermal flexibility | Moving heating or cooling demand through time using the building's thermal mass or thermal storage, distinct from electrical storage or export. | thermal-flexibility |
| dispatch | A request from the federation to a node to change its electrical behaviour for a bounded interval; a request is not a delivery. | federation | comfort-first |
| override | The occupant's standing ability to refuse or end a dispatch, with comfort and equipment limits taking priority over any grid request. | comfort-first | override-trial |
| comfort envelope | The agreed range of indoor conditions a node must keep regardless of dispatch. | comfort-first | dispatch-without-discomfort |
| baseline | The demand a building would have had without dispatch, estimated by a pre-registered method so delivered flexibility can be measured against it. | field-proof |
| recovery demand | The demand that returns after a dispatch interval as equipment restores conditions; it can erode or erase the benefit of the interval. | rebound-question |
| interconnection queue | The backlog of generation and storage projects waiting for permission to connect to the grid. | the-grid-is-full | queue-capacity |
| switchgear | The service and distribution equipment that sizes a building's electrical capacity; onboard storage can allow it to be smaller. | switchgear-deletion |
| PTAC | Packaged terminal air conditioner, the through-wall unit common in older apartment buildings and the target of replacement programs such as New York's Clean Heat for All. | open-orders |
| virtual power plant | An aggregation of distributed energy resources operated as if it were one plant; the federation is a particular kind of one. | federation |
| evidential status | Every record's declared basis: sourced (independent citation), hypothesis (Airform's proposition), proposal (a design or test), or observation (a company-reported fact not yet independently verified). | agent-commons |
| position | What an outside agent says about a published record: it supports, challenges or extends it, with sources, uncertainty and a proposed test. | agent-commons |
| the Prime | The Commons' own agent: it keeps the corpus, reads what other agents send, drafts replies and records, and holds the practice. It cannot publish, dispatch, spend or message anyone. | agent-commons | how-the-commons-grows |