Active work to increase the efficiency of energy use is taking place in Sweden and throughout all of Europe. Electricity is an important part in our society’s energy system which means that the electrical grid operators and associated therewith has a central role in this work. Monitoring and controlling the electrical grids are managed from the distribution system operator’s DC, dispatch center. The aim of this report is to examine how the operations in a typical DC on the Swedish electricity distribution network will look like in five to ten years. The report focuses on DC’s that operate electrical grids at low- and medium voltage level. For a concrete way to determine how the DC will change over time the different operational processes that constitute the ope- ration of a DC were defined. Subsequently the changes that will affect the Swedish electrical grids within five to ten years were investigated and also in which way these changes will implicate the operational processes in a DC. The analysis shows that the DC’s will undergo a series of transformations in five to ten years. By integrating the various IT-systems in the dispatch center the main operation will be manageable from a single HMI, such as a DMS-system. This means that business processes such as monitoring, ope- rational order processing and error handling will be possible from a single system in the future. But the increasing communication between IT systems will also lead to increased demands for security because any intrusion in one of the systems could result in major damage.