Zeng Ming: Using Energy Internet to Promote Energy Revolution

China Energy Storage Network: Energy security is an overall and strategic issue related to the country's economic and social development. It is crucial to the country's prosperity and development, the improvement of people's lives, and the long-term stability of society. Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out that in the face of new changes in the energy supply and demand pattern and new trends in international energy development, it is necessary to promote a revolution in energy production and consumption to ensure national energy security. The "13th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes to "build an energy Internet that is coordinated, integrated and complementary in terms of 'source-grid-load-storage'". The energy Internet represents the future direction of energy development in the world and is an important means to promote the energy revolution.

Help build a new energy supply and utilization system

After long-term development, my country has become the world's largest energy producer and consumer, forming an energy supply system with comprehensive development of coal, electricity, oil, natural gas, new energy and renewable energy, with significantly improved technical equipment levels and significantly improved production and living energy conditions. Although my country's energy development has made great achievements, it also faces huge challenges, especially the large-scale development and utilization of traditional fossil energy, which has emitted a large amount of pollutants and affected the sustainable development of the economy and society; the development and utilization of renewable energy is constrained by factors such as cost, technology, and market mechanisms, and development has encountered bottlenecks. Therefore, we should establish a systematic thinking, start from energy technology, production, consumption, system and other aspects, change the way of energy utilization, and build a new energy supply and utilization system.

At present, in the new round of global scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, the deep integration of the Internet, advanced information technology and the energy industry is promoting the transformation of the energy industry. Energy Internet is a new form of energy industry development that deeply integrates the Internet with energy production, transmission, storage, consumption and energy market. It can break the boundaries of different types of energy that were originally relatively independent, and form a new energy supply and utilization system with the power system as the core, various types of energy networks and various forms of transportation networks highly integrated on the basis of advanced information technology. Horizontally, it can achieve mutual complementation of different types of energy; vertically, it can achieve "source-grid-load-storage" coordination in the whole process of energy development, production, transportation, storage and consumption. This is of great significance for adjusting my country's energy structure, improving comprehensive energy efficiency, and forming new economic growth points.

The energy internet is logically divided into three layers: the physical layer, the information layer, and the business layer. At the physical layer, different types of energy are interconnected; at the information layer, data and information from all aspects of energy production and utilization are fully shared; at the business layer, market efficiency will be greatly improved under the promotion of the integration and innovation of the physical layer and the information layer. In addition to meeting energy needs, it will also create new value. Therefore, the driving force for its sustainable development is the energy-information-economy ternary driving mechanism: the deep integration of different types of energy facilitates the comprehensive and full acquisition of information on the entire energy internet. Making full use of this information can improve market efficiency, optimize resource allocation, and promote the sustainable development of the entire energy industry. It is in this sense that the energy internet will change the traditional energy supply model of meeting demand with production, and promote the integration of energy production and consumption.

Helping to effectively address the problems and challenges facing the energy industry

At present, global energy development faces three major challenges: resource shortage, environmental pollution, and climate change. my country's energy development also faces many challenges. In the new historical period, we can only promote the sustainable development of the energy industry by making positive adjustments and changes. Building an energy Internet can help us effectively solve development problems and actively respond to these challenges.

Respond to the challenges of changing energy patterns. The global economy is currently in a period of deep adjustment, and the world's energy political pattern, economic pattern, supply and demand pattern, and geopolitical structure pattern have also undergone profound changes. Changes in the energy pattern have posed a huge challenge to my country's energy security. Building an energy Internet can not only build a new energy supply and utilization system, but also build a comprehensive integration platform for cross-domain advanced technologies, models, and concepts. Through energy storage technology, energy collection technology, and intelligent control technology, it effectively solves problems such as shortage of high-quality energy, low level of clean energy development and utilization, unstable supply of renewable energy, and difficulty in accessing the power backbone network, changing my country's energy production and consumption patterns, achieving clean, efficient, safe, convenient, and sustainable use of energy, and fundamentally ensuring my country's energy security.

Solve the problem of unreasonable energy structure. The unreasonable energy structure, overcapacity of traditional energy, insufficient development of renewable energy, and low overall efficiency of energy system are restricting my country's economic development. Building an energy Internet can solve the problem of unreasonable energy structure. In the energy Internet, the three levels of physical layer, information layer and commercial layer interact with each other, promoting the establishment and improvement of a scientific, reasonable, open and transparent energy market mechanism. The supply and demand information, price signals and industrial policies of the energy market guide market players to conduct energy transactions with other players on the basis of independent supply and demand balance, which can promote changes in market players, transaction models and product types in the entire energy Internet, promote the increase of the proportion of renewable energy in my country's energy structure, promote the clean and efficient use of fossil energy, and promote the clean and low-carbon energy system, thereby optimizing my country's energy structure.

Break through the bottleneck of energy technology innovation. Building an energy internet can accelerate energy technology innovation and help break through the bottleneck of technological innovation. The construction of an energy internet will promote the technological development and integration of all links in the energy industry chain, thereby promoting the innovation and development of basic technologies in the energy industry, and promoting the innovation and application of wide-area power network interconnection technology, multi-energy integration and energy storage technology, energy router technology, and user-side automatic response technology. Promoting energy technology innovation and improving the level of energy development and utilization technology are the basis for achieving energy transformation and building a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient modern energy system, and also provide necessary technical support for adhering to green development and building an ecological civilization.

Help promote my country's energy revolution in all aspects

Building an energy internet requires not only the promotion of energy technology innovation and international cooperation, but also the promotion of energy production and consumption methods and policy system reforms, which will promote major changes in human production and lifestyle. It is not a minor repair of the existing energy production and consumption patterns and energy system mechanisms, but through relevant technological revolutions, it will drive energy production, consumption, system reforms and energy structure adjustments, and promote my country's energy revolution in all aspects.

Promote the revolution in energy production. The current energy system consists of multiple relatively independent industries divided by different types of energy. Each industry ensures the balance of supply and demand of the energy variety through its own planning, construction, investment and operation. The energy Internet will break this boundary, promote the coordination and complementarity of different types of energy, and change the production mode, supply system and development model of energy. On the one hand, through interconnection and interoperability, the energy Internet can enhance the flexibility of various links such as energy production, transmission and storage, promote the large-scale and economic application of renewable energy development equipment and mobile energy storage equipment, effectively improve the energy production and supply mode, and increase the proportion of renewable energy. On the other hand, energy production and supply will shift from the original single mode to a diversified mode. In addition to a richer product variety and business structure, new market players will also be formed. They will engage in innovative businesses such as data analysis, platform services, risk assessment, and logistics support. These new players, new businesses, new products, and new models will change the market environment of energy production, thereby promoting the energy production revolution.