| BoS | Balance of System |
| BMS | Battery Management System |
| CED | Cumulative Energy Demanda |
| CF | CarbonFootprint |
| CN | China (region code) |
| CN-GD | Guangdong in China (region code) |
| CN-SD | Shandong in China (region code) |
| EPBT | Energy Payback Time |
| E20 | Total produced energy at year 20th |
| FU | Functional Unit |
| GHG | Greenhouse Gases |
| GLO | Global (region code) |
| HPS | Household photovoltaic system |
| LCA | Life Cycle Analysis |
| LCI | Life Cycle Inventory |
| O&M | Operation and Maintenance |
| PE | Peru (region code) |
| RER | Europe (region code) |
| RoW | Rest of the World (region code) |
| SHS | Solar Home System |
| VLS-PV | Very large scale Photovoltaic |
| WF | Water Footprint |