WG 21 - TC 57/WG 21

IEC TR 62746-2:2025, which is a technical report, describes the main pillars of interoperability to assist different IEC Technical Committees in defining their interfaces and messages covering the whole chain between a Smart Grid and Smart Home/Building/Industrial area.
The main topics of this document are:
– To describe an architecture model from a logical point of view;
– To describe a set of user stories that describe a number of situations related to energy flexibility and demand side management as well as an outline of potential upcoming Smart Building and Smart Home scenarios. The set of user stories does not have the ambition to list all home and building (energy) management possibilities, but is meant as a set of examples that are used as input in use cases and to check that the set of use cases is complete;
– To describe a set of use cases based on the user stories and architecture. The use cases describe scenarios in which the communication between elements of the architecture are identified;
– To further detail the communication, identified in the use cases, by describing the messages and information to be exchanged.
This document can also be used as a blueprint for further smart home solutions like remote control, remote monitoring, ambient assistant living and so forth.
This technical report will be regularly revised by introducing new use cases and updating the current use cases. The use cases presented in this document are not going to be included in the IEC Use Case Management Repository (UCMR). The data models of some use cases presented here are defined in the second edition of IEC 62746-4 . The smart grid architecture model presented in this document is created in coordination with IEC TC13, SC23, and TC57
This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2015. This edition constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
a) The Architecture Model of the Smart Grid Coordination Group (Figure 6) has been replaced with the draft Architecture Model of TC57 in collaboration with SC23K and TC13;
b) The use cases from Edition 1 (2015) with the following IDs have been removed from the current document: JWG2000, JWG2001, JWG2010, JWG202x, JWG2041, JWG2042, JWG1111, WGSP2120, JWG30xx;
c) The use cases from Edition 1 (2015) with the following IDs: JWG1100, JWG1101, JWG-SPUC1102, and JWG1103 have been replaced with the use case JWG1100;
d) The following use cases have been added to the current document: JWG3000, JWG3001, JWG3002, JWG3003, JWG3004, JWG3005, JWG3006, JWG4000.

IEC 62746-4:2024 describes CIM profiles for Demand-Side Resource Interface and is based on the use case shown in Annex A of this document. Schemas associated with this document were generated using the CIM101 UML and leverages the Market package. This document defines profiles complimentary to other standards, namely those in IEC 61970, IEC 61968, and IEC 62325.

IEC TS 62746-3:2015(E) establishes an architecture that is supportive of interfaces between the Customer Energy Management System and the Power Management System. A DER Management System can also be a Customer Energy Management System.

IEC TR 62746-2:2015(EN) describes the main pillars of interoperability to assist different Technical Committees in defining their interfaces and messages covering the whole chain between a smart grid and smart home/building/industrial area. The main topics covered by this technical report are: architecture model from a logical point of view; set of user stories describing a number of situations related to energy flexibility and demand side management; set of use cases based on the user stories and architecture; details of the communication; identified in the use cases, by describing the requirements for messages and information to be exchanged.