A comprehensive review of smart grid related standards and protocols

The emergence of the smart grid has led to the development of a diverse set of standards and protocols for achieving interoperability among smart devices. These smart grid related standards and protocols cover a wide variety of power system components and functionalities. In this paper, a comprehensive review of commonly used standards and protocols in the smart grid environment is provided, ranging from those related to the enterprise, control center and wide area monitoring, distributed generation, substation, demand response, metering, electric vehicles and cyber security.