The Community activities have the following initial taxonomy:

TOP LEVEL

1. Distributed Energy Resources
2. Energy Storage
3. Supply Side Economics
4. Demand Response
5.  Demand Side Micro-Markets
6. Customer and Grid Integration
7. Customer Owned Energy Sources
8. Electric Transportation  
9. Coherent System Operations
10. Complex Autonomous Adaptive Systems
11. System and Cyber Security
12. A Customer Centric Energy Ecology
13. Open Systems and Interoperability
14.  Computer and Smart Grid System Design
15. Computer and Smart Grid Education
16. Computer and Smart Grid Policy

 SECOND LEVEL

1. Self-integrating Systems
2. Distributed Multi-agent Architecture
3. Virtual computing
4. Messaging-oriented Middleware
5. Visualization
6. Data analytics (and databases)
7. Modeling and Simulation
8. High performance computing
9. Software verification and validation
10. Cyber security and resilience
11. Computational Intelligence
12. Reusable Application Software,
13. Secure Information Exchange
14. Life Cycle Affordability

THIRD LEVEL

1. Computational capabilities
2. Information Systems
3. Networks
4. Protocols
5. Frameworks
6. Middleware
7.  Resource Management
8. Software
9. Operating Systems
10. Metrics, Testing, and Documentation

The initial STC Task Forces:

1. Ownership of the Computer Society Smart Grid Vision Project: Smart Grid Vision for Computers: 2030 and Beyond.
2. Discussion Group for IEEE Std. P2030.4 Draft Guide for Control and Automation Installations Applied to the Electric Power Infrastructure
3. Education and Young Engineers
4. Professional Outreach and Networking Opportunities