Intelligent Grid and Emerging Technologies Committee (iGET)

Committee Scope

The Intelligent Grid and Emerging Technologies Coordinating Committee (iGET CC) serves as a point of coordination within the PES for information and activities related to next-generation electrical power systems and the technologies that enable them. The transition toward ever more intelligent grids is typified by the increased use of communications and information technology in the generation, delivery, and consumption of electrical energy. These capabilities enable grids where prosumers, electric transportation, and distributed energy resources are integral and interactive components, as in the case of microgrids and active distribution networks interfaced with transmission systems. Such grids also require the research, development, and deployment of new technologies through a process that achieves broad consensus and commercialization. Once deployed, these technologies enable new means of marketing energy and controlling the intelligent grid. The scope of the iGET CC spans all aspects of the intelligent grid and related emerging technologies that fall within the scope of the PES technical committees. In this way, the iGET CC can effectively facilitate coordination among these technical committees. This scope includes, but is not limited to, the following: Cybersecurity, Electric Machinery, Energy Development & Power Generation, Insulated Conductors, Power System Analysis, Computing and Economics, Power System Communications, Power System Resilience, Power System Relaying, Energy Storage, Smart Grid, Substations, Switchgear, Transformers Transmission & Distribution, Power Systems Instrumentation and Measurement, Other Technologies.