| DER | Distributed Energy Resources |
| DET | Distrubuted Energy Trading |
| DSO | Distributed System Operator |
| FE | Functional Encryption |
| FHIPE | Function-Hiding Inner Product Encryption |
| IEA | International Energy Agency |
| IoE | Internet-of-Energy |
| IPE | Inner Product Encryption |
| OID | One-time identifier |
| P2P | Peer-to-Peer |
| PPT | Probabilistic Polynomial Time |
| PUFs | Physical Unclonable Functions |
| RES | Renewable Energy Systems |
| UID | User identifier |
| UN | United Nations |