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The impossibility of defining one Smart Grid solution that fits all, draws the attention to interest groups and associations that gather utilities and Smart Grid stakeholders. Some relevant ones are NIST, CIGRE, EPRI, and UTC.

The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) [53] is a nonregulatory federal agency and one of the USA's oldest physical science laboratories now within the U.S. Department of Commerce. In the Smart Grid domain, the NIST specifically established the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) to accelerate standards harmonization and advance into the implementation and interoperability of Smart Grid devices and systems. The SGIP evolved in 2013 as a non‐profit private‐public partnership organization, SGIP 2.0, and in 2017 merged with Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA).

The CIGRE (Conseil International des Grands Reseaux Electriques, or International Council on Large Electric Systems) is an international non‐profit association whose objective is to promote collaboration with experts from all around the world by sharing knowledge and joining forces to improve electric power systems today and in the future. CIGRE [54] works with experts in Study Committees (SCs) overseen by the Technical Committee. The SC D2 focuses on ICT applied to “digital networks”² from HV to the Distribution grid (smart meters, IoT, big data, EMS, etc.), communication solutions for information exchange in the smart delivery of electric energy [55].

The EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) [56] is an independent, non‐profit organization, bringing together scientists and engineers and experts from academia and industry. EPRI addresses the challenges in all the aspects of the electricity domain. In the Smart Grid domain, the Intelligrid concept as the architecture for the Smart Grid of the future is one of the best‐known contributions.

The UTC (Utilities Technology Council) is a global trade association with the purpose of creating a favorable business, regulatory, and technological environment for companies that own, manage, or provide critical telecommunication systems in support of their core business (e.g., utilities including electricity utilities). Although UTC's initial focus was getting radio spectrum allocations for power utilities, it is now focused on ICT solutions together with its members and associated groups (EUTC – Europe – [57], UTCAL – Latin America – [58], etc.) in different world regions.