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 ====== Get started ====== ====== Get started ======
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 The ISGAN Smart Grid Wiki builds a shared language around smart grid transitions. It integrates knowledge across ISGAN working groups, grounding concepts in real-world examples and connecting them across disciplines. The ISGAN Smart Grid Wiki builds a shared language around smart grid transitions. It integrates knowledge across ISGAN working groups, grounding concepts in real-world examples and connecting them across disciplines.
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 ===== What this wiki is for ===== ===== What this wiki is for =====
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-Smart grid transitions draw on knowledge from engineering, policy, economics, sociology, and more. Experts in these fields often use the same terms differently, or different terms for closely related ideas. The ISGAN Wiki addresses this directly. It builds a shared language around smart grid transitions, not as a static glossary, but as a living platform that integrates knowledge across ISGAN working groups. 
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 Each topic page approaches a concept from three complementary angles: who the relevant actors are, what the technical picture looks like, and what institutional structures shape the system. Pages are grounded in real-world examples from different regions and connected through links that make their dependencies visible. After publication, pages are revised and updated as knowledge develops. Each topic page approaches a concept from three complementary angles: who the relevant actors are, what the technical picture looks like, and what institutional structures shape the system. Pages are grounded in real-world examples from different regions and connected through links that make their dependencies visible. After publication, pages are revised and updated as knowledge develops.
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 ===== Who is this wiki for? ===== ===== Who is this wiki for? =====
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 The wiki serves three groups simultaneously. Writing well for all three at once is possible, but it requires deliberate choices. The wiki serves three groups simultaneously. Writing well for all three at once is possible, but it requires deliberate choices.
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 **ISGAN experts across working groups** **ISGAN experts across working groups**
- +The wiki is a space that brings together collective and different ideas around key concepts that define smart grid transitions.
-If you work within ISGAN, the wiki is a space for consolidating what the network knows collectively, including the definitional debates and disciplinary tensions that often stay buried in workshop notes. This audience values precision. Competing definitions should be named, not smoothed over. Technical accuracy is expected.+
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-**Policy makers and energy institutions** +**Policy makers and ministry officials** 
- +Energy ministries, regulatory bodies, and international agencies use the wiki to understand the framing of technical and governance debates, and to communicate across departments and to elected politicians.
-Energy ministries, regulatory bodies, and international agencies use the wiki to understand the framing of technical and governance debates, and to communicate across departments and to elected politicians. For this audience, jargon needs to be unpacked. Every term that a minister's advisor might not recognise should be explained in plain language on first use.+
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 **Researchers across disciplines** **Researchers across disciplines**
- +Engineers, social scientists, energy economists, and policy researchers use the wiki when writing proposals and when communicating across disciplinary communities.
-Engineers, social scientists, energy economists, and policy researchers use the wiki when writing proposals and when communicating across disciplinary communities. This audience needs the connections between perspectives made explicit. It is not enough to list what each discipline contributes; the page should show how the perspectives inform each other.+
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 ===== How the wiki is organised ===== ===== How the wiki is organised =====
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 Topics are grouped into five categories that reflect the main analytical lenses used across ISGAN working groups. Topics are grouped into five categories that reflect the main analytical lenses used across ISGAN working groups.
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 **Table 1.** Topic categories and what they cover. **Table 1.** Topic categories and what they cover.
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 ^ Category ^ What it covers ^ ^ Category ^ What it covers ^
 | **General Topics** | Foundational concepts relevant across the wiki: flexibility, resilience, scenarios, digitalisation, and related cross-cutting themes. | | **General Topics** | Foundational concepts relevant across the wiki: flexibility, resilience, scenarios, digitalisation, and related cross-cutting themes. |
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 | **Actors & Stakeholders** | The groups whose decisions shape the system: operators, users, aggregators, communities, and their roles. | | **Actors & Stakeholders** | The groups whose decisions shape the system: operators, users, aggregators, communities, and their roles. |
 | **Technology & Infrastructure** | The physical and digital infrastructure of smart grids: grid architecture, storage, sector coupling, grid edge, and infrastructure components. | | **Technology & Infrastructure** | The physical and digital infrastructure of smart grids: grid architecture, storage, sector coupling, grid edge, and infrastructure components. |
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 Each topic sits in one primary category. Related topics in other categories are linked directly from the Related topics section. Each topic sits in one primary category. Related topics in other categories are linked directly from the Related topics section.
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 ===== Get involved ===== ===== Get involved =====
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 To contribute, you need a wiki account. Register using the link in the top navigation. Your account will be reviewed by an admin before activation. For questions about contributing or to propose a new topic, contact the WG7 Task Lead. To contribute, you need a wiki account. Register using the link in the top navigation. Your account will be reviewed by an admin before activation. For questions about contributing or to propose a new topic, contact the WG7 Task Lead.
  
 See the [[about:guidelines|Editorial guide]] for writing standards and contributor roles, the [[about:markup|Wiki markup]] reference for formatting, and the [[about:newtopic|Topic builder]] to submit a new topic. See the [[about:guidelines|Editorial guide]] for writing standards and contributor roles, the [[about:markup|Wiki markup]] reference for formatting, and the [[about:newtopic|Topic builder]] to submit a new topic.