SG 3 - Strategic Group on Smart Grid

SG 3 (Strategic Group) on Smart Grid, set up by the IEC SMB (Standardization Management Board), provides advice on fast-moving ideas and technologies likely to form the basis for new International Standards or IEC TCs (Technical Committees) in the area of Smart Grid technologies.

SG 3's first task at the meeting it held in April 2009 was to finish laying down the road map for the development of a framework to achieve interoperability of Smart Grid systems. Since then, it has submitted a 160-page report that covers the 24 TCs that have published International Standards relating to the Smart Grid and agreed on a basic set of standards covering interoperability, transmission, distribution, metering, connecting consumers and cyber security.

SG 3 is working in close collaboration with NIST (US National Institute of Standards and Technology). IEC Standards were recognized as being crucial in the development of the NIST roadmap (including at present approximately 10 IEC standards) and IEC agreed to actively support NIST in identified and prioritized action fields. SG3 reviewed the list of some 60 standards identified by NIST at its Denver meeting in November 2009.