Article #726 - IEC TC 57 POWER SYSTEM CONTROL AND ASSOCIATED COMMUNICATIONS
To prepare international standards for power systems control equipment and systems including EMS (Energy Management Systems), SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition), distribution automation, teleprotection, and associated information exchange for real-time and non-real-time information, used in the planning, operation and maintenance of power systems. Power systems management comprises control within control centres, substations and individual pieces of primary equipment including telecontrol and interfaces to equipment, systems and databases, which may be outside the scope of TC 57. The special conditions in a high voltage environment have to be taken into consideration. Whereas standards related to measuring and protection relays and to the control and monitoring equipment used with these systems are treated by TC 95, TC 57 deals with the interface to the control systems and the transmission aspects for teleprotection systems. Whereas standards related to equipment for electrical measurement and load control are treated by TC 13, TC 57 deals with the interface of equipment for interconnection lines and industrial consumers and producers requiring energy management type interfaces to the control system.
Links
Parent Organization Overview: IEC
Parent Organization website: IEC, International Electrotechnical Commission![]()
Committee Website: IEC TC 57: Power System Control and Associated Communications![]()
Sub-Groups of IEC TC57
- IEC TC 57 WG 10: Power system IED communication and associated data models (61850 series)
- IEC TC57/WG 13: Energy management system application program interface (EMS - API)(61970 series)
- IEC TC57/WG 14: System interfaces for distribution management (61968 series)
- IEC TC57/WG 15: Data and communication security
- IEC TC57/WG 16: Deregulated energy market communications
- IEC TC57/WG 17: Communications Systems for Distributed Energy Resources (DER)
- IEC TC57/WG 18: Hydroelectric power plants - Communication for monitoring and control
- IEC TC57/WG 19: Interoperability within TC 57 in the long term
