IA

Implementing Agreements (of the IEA):

• Advanced Fuel Cells (AFCIA)
• Advanced Materials for Transportation (AMT IA)
• Advanced Motor Fuels (AMF IA)
• Bioenergy (Bioenergy IA)
• Buildings and Community Systems (ECBCS IA)
• Clean Coal Centre (CCC IA)
• Climate Technology Initiative (CTI IA)
• Co-operation on Tokamak Programmes (CTP IA)
• Demand-Side Management (DSM IA)
• District Heating and Cooling, including the Integration of Combined Heat and Power (DHC IA)
• Efficient Electrical End-Use Equipment (4E IA) 
• Electricity Networks Analysis, Research & Development (ENARD IA)
• Emissions Reduction in Combustion (Combustion IA)
• Energy Storage (ECES IA)
• Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE IA)
• Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme (ETSAP IA)
• Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR IA)
• Environmental, Safety and Economic Aspects of Fusion Power (ESE Fusion Power IA)
• Fluidized Bed Conversion (FBC IA)
• Fusion Materials (Fusion Materials IA)
• Geothermal (Geothermal IA)
• Greenhouse Gas (GHG IA) 
• Heat Pumping Technologies (Heat Pumps IA)
• High-Temperature Superconductivity on the Electric Power Sector (HTS IA)
• Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (HEV IA)
• Hydrogen (Hydrogen IA)
• Hydropower (Hydropower IA)
• Industrial Energy-Related Technologies and Systems (IETS IA)
• Multiphase Flow Sciences (Multiphase IA)
• Nuclear Technology of Fusion Reactors (NTFR IA)
• Ocean Energy Systems (OES IA)
• Photovoltaic Power Systems (PVPS IA)
• Plasma Wall Interaction in TEXTOR (Textor IA)
• Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (RETD IA)
• Reversed Field Pinches (RFP IA)
• Smart Grids
• Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC IA)
• SolarPACES  (SolarPACES IA)
• Spherical Tori (Spherical Tori IA)
• Stellarator-Heliotron Concept (Stellarator/Heliotron IA)
• Wind Energy Systems (Wind IA)

IAB

Industry Advisory Board (of the IEA)

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency

ICE

internal combustion engine

ICRP

Initial Contingency Response Plan

ICT

information and communications technologies

ICUK

Innovation China-United Kingdom

IDR

In-Depth Reviews (IEA publications focusing on specific countries)

IEA

International Energy Agency

IEF

International Energy Forum

IEP Agreement

Agreement on an International Energy Program

IEP

integrated energy policy

IGCC

integrated gasification combined cycle

IIGCC

Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change

ILCETP

International Low-Carbon Energy Technology Platform

ILO

International Labour Organization

IMF

International Monetary Fund

INCR

Investor Network on Climate Risk

IOC

international oil company

IOE

International Organisation of Employers

IOF

industries of the future

IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPEEC

International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation

IPO

initial public offering

IPR

intellectual property rights

IPP

independent power producer

IRENA

The International Renewable Energy Agency

IRR

internal rates of return

ISD

Information Systems Division (of the IEA)

ISL

in situ leaching

ISO

International Organisation for Standardisation

ITER

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, a collaborative organisation to establish fusion as a new source of energy.

ITUC

International Trade Union Confederation