TheIEC 61970 series of standards by theInternational Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) deals with theapplication program interfaces forenergy management systems (EMS). The series provides a set of guidelines and standards to facilitate:

• The integration of applications developed by different suppliers in the control center environment
• The exchange of information to systems external to the control center environment, including transmission, distribution and generation systems external to the control center that need to exchange real-time data with the control center
• The provision of suitable interfaces for data exchange across legacy and new systems

IEC 61970 is created and maintained by IEC Technical Committee 57 (TC 57).^[1]

The complete set of standards includes the following parts:^[1]

• IEC 61970-1: Guidelines and general requirements
• IEC 61970-2: Glossary of terms
• IEC 61970-3XX:Common Information Model (CIM)^[2]
• IEC 61970-4XX: Generic Interface Definition (GID)^{[citation needed]}
• IEC 61970-5XX: Common Interface System Technology Mappings^{[citation needed]}

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