Electricity grids from generation to consumers, including transmission and distribution, as well as energy markets are facing many new challenges while integrating an increasing variety of digital computing and communication technologies, electrical architectures, associated processes and services. The new challenges lead very often to support an increasing level of interaction between involved actors, components and systems.

Thus, it is key for the IEC to propose a clear and comprehensive map of all standards which are contributing to support these interactions, in an open and interoperable way.

The purpose of this document is to provide such a map (as available in 2016), but also to bring the vision of the path which will be followed by the concerned IEC technical committees and working groups in the coming years, to improve the global efficiency, market relevancy and coverage of this series of standards.