IEC Technical Committee 57 is one of the technical committees of the International Electrotechnical Commission

International Electrotechnical Commission

The International Electrotechnical Commission is a non-profit, non-governmental international standards organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as "electrotechnology"...

 (IEC).TC 57 is responsible for development of standards for information exchange for power systems and other related systems including Energy Management Systems, SCADA

SCADA

SCADA generally refers to industrial control systems : computer systems that monitor and control industrial, infrastructure, or facility-based processes, as described below:...

, distribution automation & teleprotection.

Working Groups

TC 57 consists of series of working groups and each group is responsible for development of standards within its domain. The list of active working groups are listed below.

TC 57 Working Groups
Working Group	Details	Standards Developed
WG 3	Telecontrol & Teleprotection standards	IEC 60870-5 IEC 60870-5 In electrical engineering and power system automation, the International Electrotechnical Commission 60870 standards define systems used for telecontrol . Such systems are used for controlling electric power transmission grids and other geographically widespread control systems...
WG 10	IED communications & associated data models in power systems	IEC 61850
WG 13	Energy management systems - Application Program Interfaces	IEC 61970 IEC 61970 The IEC 61970 series of standards deals with the application program interfaces for energy management systems . The series provides a set of guidelines and standards to facilitate:...
WG 14	Distribution management systems - System Interfaces	IEC 61968 IEC 61968 IEC 61968 is a series of standards under development that will define standards for information exchanges between electrical distribution systems. These standards are being developed by Working Group 14 of Technical Committee 57 of the IEC...
WG 15	Data & Communication Security	IEC 62351 IEC 62351 IEC 62351 is a standard developed by WG15 of IEC TC57. This is developed for handling the security of TC 57 series of protocols including IEC 60870-5 series, IEC 60870-6 series, IEC 61850 series, IEC 61970 series & IEC 61968 series...
WG 16	Standards related to energy market communications	IEC 62325
WG 17	Communication systems for Distributed Energy Resources (DER)	IEC 61850-7-420
WG 18	Communication systems for Hydroelectric power plants	IEC 61850-7-410
WG 19	Interoperability within TC57 in the long term	standards for integration of CIM Common Information Model (electricity) In electric power transmission and distribution, the Common Information Model , a standard developed by the electric power industry that has been officially adopted by the International Electrotechnical Commission , aims to allow application software to exchange information about the configuration...  & SCL
WG 20	Planning of power line carrier systems	IEC 60495, IEC 60663