CIGRE’s Green Books are recognised by the international engineering community as the world’s foremost technical reference publications in their fields.


They are self-contained handbooks covering the entire knowledge of a subject area in power engineering.

Each Greenbook embodies a vast amount of real-world expertise distilled from our global community. It is the culmination of all the collective work of CIGRE Study Committees in their domains of work.

Multiple Technical Brochures, produced by Working Groups, are integrated into one definitive and comprehensive publication. It gives in-depth practical information for real world application, reflecting the state of the art, with best practices and standards presented.

At a glance
  • Based on practical experience and analysed data
  • 14000 technical reference documents and publications
  • 1000’s of downloads each month
  • 100’s of technical publications added every year

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CIGRE Green Books can be purchased from our publishing partner Springer in both digital and hard copy form. Individual CIGRE members receive a 40% discount.

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There are 17 books in this iconic series, as seen below.