This domain tutorial on "The Role of Standards In Electrical Power Systems" is intended to provide information so the student will be able to identify with the requirement for consensus-developed standards. Such standards are developed by joint efforts of stakeholders or interested parties to achieve consensus regarding interoperability, function, and quality of products or systems. SDOs throughout the world create standards that apply to electric power generation, distribution and utilization. All standards referenced and listed must be used in concert to instill the needed expertise in the education process.

Standards recognized as correct by common consent or by those most competent to decide may be used as a model, pattern, criterion, or type and provide the rules for basis of comparison in measuring or judging capacity, quantity, content, extent, value or quality. Initially perceived as complicated, a major role of standards is to provide a measure of adequacy.

Multinational companies are increasingly asking the question, "Why does each facility built in a different country have to be built to a different standard?" The IEEE/IEC dual logo conceivably would resolve this issue. Support for global standardization will hopefully make this a reality in the future.