A brief literature review has been prepared on the possible use of intelligent energy (power) metering systems (IEMS) created in Russia by electric grid companies and guaranteeing electricity suppliers to solve various problems in the electric power industry. The review is carried out for users of IEMS and contains information about key applications, methods and tools used in the world. In order to reduce the labor-intensive search for necessary applications by users IEMS, the bibliographic part of the re-view is made in the form of a table with the following columns: application, IEMS user name, links to publications in the list of references