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The ISGAN Smart Grid Wiki builds a shared language around smart grid transitions. It integrates knowledge across ISGAN working groups, connecting them across disciplines and contexts.
What this wiki is for
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 aims to help build bridges across differences in understanding, serving living platform that integrates knowledge across ISGAN working groups.
Each topic page approaches a concept from three complementary angles: actors and stakeholders, institutions, and technologies and infrustructure. 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.
Who is this wiki for?
The wiki serves three main target 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.
Policy makers and ministry officials
Energy ministry officials, regulatory bodies, and international agencies can use the wiki to understand the framing of technical and governance debates, and to communicate across departments and to elected politicians.
Researchers across disciplines
Engineers, social scientists, energy economists, and policy researchers use the wiki when writing proposals and when communicating across disciplinary communities.
How the wiki is organised
Topics are grouped into five categories that reflect the main analytical lenses used across ISGAN working groups.
Table 1. Topic categories and what they cover.
| Category | What it covers |
|---|---|
| General Topics | Foundational concepts relevant across the wiki: flexibility, resilience, scenarios, digitalisation, and related cross-cutting themes. |
| Governance, Innovation & Change | How transitions are organised and steered: governance frameworks, innovation policy, regulatory sandboxes, transition pathways, and change processes. |
| Institutions & Markets | The rules and market structures shaping system behaviour: regulation, market design, network codes, tariffs, and energy services. |
| 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. |
Each topic sits in one primary category. Related topics in other categories are linked directly from the Related topics section.
Get involved
To contribute, you need a registered 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 Editorial guide for writing standards and contributor roles, the Wiki markup reference for formatting, and the Topic builder to submit a new topic.