New ICT promotes the development of energy internet

China Energy Storage Network: Energy is the foundation for the survival and development of modern society. In order to cope with the energy crisis, countries are actively researching new energy technologies. Renewable energy such as solar energy, wind energy, and bioenergy are highly valued by people because of their inexhaustible, clean and environmentally friendly characteristics. However, renewable energy has the characteristics of geographical dispersion, discontinuous production, randomness, volatility and uncontrollability. It needs to be effectively utilized by a distributed "on-site collection, on-site storage, and on-site use" method. As a product of the combination of information and communication technology and renewable energy, the Energy Internet came into being, providing a practical technical solution to solve the problem of effective utilization of renewable energy.

At the same time, the Internet is penetrating into the energy industry in all directions. In order to adapt to the requirements of the energy revolution and accelerate the third industrial revolution, the energy industry must also leverage Internet technology and thinking, integrate its innovative achievements into the industry, give energy information data attributes, transform the energy physical network form, optimize the traditional energy organizational structure, break through development bottlenecks, and comprehensively improve innovation and productivity. The two major industries combine their respective advantages and characteristics to deeply integrate and jointly complete the transformation to a higher level, forming the energy Internet, a new industry with far-reaching influence.

Energy Internet is a comprehensive application of advanced power electronics technology, information and communication technology and intelligent management technology to interconnect a large number of new power networks, oil networks, natural gas networks and other energy nodes composed of distributed energy collection devices, distributed energy storage devices and various types of loads, so as to realize a peer-to-peer exchange and sharing network for two-way energy flow. It has the characteristics of a living organism that is "intelligent, self-learning and able to evolve", as well as five major characteristics: renewable, distributed, interconnected, open and intelligent.

As a revolution in energy technology, the Energy Internet uses cyber-physical energy systems as a means of realization, with the help of the rapid development of information and communication technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, and mobile Internet. The Energy Internet can sense, analyze, and integrate key information from the core systems of urban operations through information and communication technologies such as the Internet of Things infrastructure, cloud computing data centers, and geospatial monitoring equipment, and respond intelligently to various energy needs including people's livelihood, environmental protection, public safety, urban services, and industrial and commercial activities, fully guaranteeing the development of smart cities and creating a better life for urban residents. The Energy Internet can also monitor energy media such as water, electricity, gas, wind, and oil, and conduct real-time collection, calculation, analysis, and centralized dispatch management of enterprise production, construction, and household energy consumption, greatly improving energy-saving efficiency. The Energy Internet uses advanced sensors, controls and software applications to connect hundreds of millions of devices, machines and systems at the energy production, transmission and consumption ends, forming the "Internet of Things Foundation" of the Energy Internet. It uses technical means such as big data analysis, machine learning and prediction as important technical support for realizing the characteristics of living organisms. By integrating operating data, weather data, meteorological data, power grid data, electricity market data, etc., it conducts big data analysis, load forecasting, power generation forecasting, and machine learning to open up and optimize the operational efficiency of energy production and energy consumption ends, and dynamically adjust demand and supply at any time.

Energy Internet is a highly integrated "energy flow, information flow, and business flow", and is an intelligent, automated, and networked energy security system. Energy Internet integrates information and communication technology and energy technology, and has the characteristics of both energy and Internet industries. It interconnects energy consumers, energy managers, power grids, energy service companies, etc. Based on new information and communication technologies such as big data and cloud computing, it interconnects energy and energy production, conversion, storage, transportation, and use, and realizes the free access, real-time flow, instant exchange and sharing of information flow, energy flow, and energy flow, achieving the "three networks in one" of information network, energy network, and energy network. Energy Internet is an important tool to promote the revolution in energy production and consumption, and it is an irresistible trend. The business model, marketing model, R&D model, operation model, service model, etc. of energy-related enterprises should be reconstructed based on the characteristics of the Internet era. With the development of energy Internet, energy Internet applications and services based on new information and communication technologies and Internet business models and thinking models will emerge in an endless stream. The future energy Internet will perfectly combine new information and communication technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, creating a miracle of artificial intelligence using big data to create huge value in the cloud.