The Global Smart Grid Federation is committed to creating smarter, cleaner electricity systems around the world. By linking the major public-private stakeholders and initiatives of participating countries, the federation will share best practices, identify barriers and solutions, foster innovation, and address key technical and policy issues. These and other activities help member organizations initiate changes to their countries' electric systems to enhance security, increase flexibility, reduce emissions, and maintain affordability, reliability, and accessibility.

In addition, the Global Smart Grid Federation works with ISGAN as well as with national and international government policymakers to address the broad challenges of deploying smarter grids. This nexus provides bidirectional communication and collaboration, which will advance Smart Grids around the world and facilitate consensus-building within the international community to address electricity system and climate change concerns.