Infinite Possiblities Of Global Energy Internet: What Is The Concept And Future

We know that it only takes a power shutdown of a few minutes in the middle of a busy workday to invite numerous problems and financial losses due to dependence on an undisturbed energy supply. Without the availability of electricity over the nation's power grid, commercial establishments and industrial productions would grind to a halt, communication networks, transportation would stop and cities would go dark.
In simple words, nothing would function.

Energy internet concept

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The concept of Energy Internet can be understood as a large number of new power network nodes formed by distributed energy harvesting devices, distributed energy storage devices. Various types of loads are interconnected by comprehensively utilizing advanced power electronics, information technology and intelligent management technologies to achieve two-way energy flow, peer-to-peer exchange of energy and sharing of networks.

From the perspective of government managerial sector, the energy Internet is a new type of energy architecture that is compatible with the traditional power grids and can fully, widely and effectively utilize distributed renewable energy sources to meet diversified power needs of users.

From an operator's point of view, the energy Internet is an energy consumer market that can interact with consumers and be competive. Only by improving the energy delivery quality, the competition in the market be won.

From the consumer's point of view, the energy Internet not only has the power supply function similar to the traditional power grid, but it also provides a common platform for energy exchange and sharing to all kinds of consumers.

One of the most reputed world's energy supply technology leaders "Vision Energy' has pioneered the "energy Internet" concept. Vision Energy believes that the trend of marketization, democratization, decentralization, intelligence and materialization of energy will be doomed to subvert the existing energy industry. The new energy system featuring "Energy Internet" will have the characteristics of "life-smart, self-learning and evolutionary". Currently, Vision Energy is based in Silicon Valley and neighbors with Google to explore the tremendous innovation and business opportunities arising from the new combination of energy and the Internet.

However things are at the foundation stage. The Energy Internet uses advanced sensors, controls and software applications to connect hundreds of millions of devices, machines, and systems on the energy production side, energy transmission side and energy consumption side to form the "Foundation of the Internet of things " for energy Internet. .

Big data analytics, machine learning and forecasting are important technical supports for the functioning of energy Internet. Energy Internet with the help of big data analysis would be able to, load forecasting, generation forecasting, machine learning, integration and optimization of operational efficiency, demand and supply of energy production and energy consumption by integrating operational data, weather data, meteorological data, grid data, electricity market data, etc. and also will be able to dynamically adjust these parameters at any time.

"Energy Internet" will help to form a huge "market place for energy assets" and realize the full life-cycle management of energy assets. This "market" can effectively integrate the upstream and downstream parties in the industry chain to form an interactive supply and demand and trading, but also allow more low-risk capital into the field of energy investment and development, and effectively control the risk of new energy investments.

The "Energy Internet" will also match supply and demand information in real time, consolidating diversified needs and creating energy deals and demand responses. When every household becomes an energy consumer and supplier, it is constantly trading electricity, such as rooftop distributed photovoltaic power plants, while charging and discharging electric vehicles.

Characteristics of the energy Internet

1. Renewable

Renewable energy is the main source of energy for the energy Internet. Renewable energy power generation is intermittent and volatile, and its large-scale access impacts the stability of the grid, which affects the transformation of the traditional energy grid into an energy Internet.

2. Distributed

Due to the decentralized nature of renewable energy, for the most efficient collection and use of renewable energy, there is a need to establish networks that collect, store and use energy locally, which are small in scale and spread over a wide range. Each of these networks form a micro-energy network or a node of the energy internet.

3. Interconnectivity

All large-scale distributed micro-energy networks do not all guarantee self-sufficiency. Energy needs to be linked together to balance energy supply and demand. Energy Internet concerns interconnecting micro-energy networks of distributed generation units, energy storage devices and loads, while traditional power grids are more concerned with how to "connect in" these elements.

4. Openness

The energy Internet should be a peer-to-peer, energy-sharing network with two-way flow of energy, power generation, energy storage and loads that can be "plug and play" as long as it meets the inter-operability standards. This access is autonomous, no network node is more important than other nodes in exchange.

5. Intelligent

Energy Internet generation, transmission, conversion and use of energy should have some intelligence.

The significance of energy internet

The global energy Internet is a highly advanced integrated system of energy flow, information flow and business flow. It is an intelligent, automated and networked energy security system. So, the construction of the global energy Internet, will have a impact on people's production quality, living standards and also the natural ecological environment? Let us see what changes the global energy Internet will bring to our lives.

Developing a global energy Internet will change public life and enhance the level of human development. As the energy infrastructure on which mankind depends for survival and development, the global energy Internet opens up a more dynamic economic system and enables mankind to achieve better development in the new energy network economy.

• Living Quality

The global energy internet enables everyone to enjoy intelligent living. In the future, all aspects of human production and many life aspects will be marked with the imprint of the global energy Internet. In the field of production, a better combination of information technology and clean energy systems has enabled the entire energy system to be intelligentized. The information technology system and energy system have joined forces to promote the operation of various mechanical and automated production lines that are difficult to count and jointly regulate such as construction, automobile, for their linkage between the power operations. In the realm of life, the global energy Internet has brought unprecedented convenience to mankind to train operations, unimpeded communication in every sector from the car Mercedes-Benz to air conditioners, microwave ovens, refrigerators, washing machines and other appliances, all of which require the intelligent functioning. People can remotely open the home air conditioners and make delicious dinners without being present in kitchen. They can automatically control various energy-using equipment such as washing machines to maximize user-friendliness and save energy costs. They can automatically turn on household energy storage equipment, distributed power supplies, and electric vehicle charging facilities, etc., simultaneously to become a member of hundreds of millions of electricity supplier homes. Ordinary families are able to achieve user intelligent energy management, purchase power by mobile terminals. Multi-meter collection, comprehensive information service and remote home appliance control will in future comprehensively improve the living standard intelligently through the global energy Internet platform.

Global Energy Internet will fully meet individual needs. In terms of energy use, through the Global Energy Internet, every home will be both an energy consumer and a producer. People can even choose to use the arctic wind energy or the equatorial area of ​​solar energy, they can choose different periods of different prices of electricity packages. In the future, mankind's energy needs, commodity needs, job requirements and other changes from large-scale to diversified rely on the global energy Internet. Tens of thousands of jobs can be moved from factories and offices to homes to change people's life style and to solve the problems such as traffic congestion and polluted industrial environment.

The global energy Internet enables people to develop fully and independently. The application of the new scientific and technological revolution triggered by the global energy Internet and its achievements will promote the acceleration of the development of productive forces and promote the changes of people's modes of production, lifestyles, modes of communication and social relations in an all-round way. In the future, the level of automation and intelligence in social productive life will be significantly raised. The boring and repetitive work will be basically completed by machines and intelligent networks. The vast majority of workers will have more time and energy to engage in their favorite creative work, thus creating a comprehensive and free development for people objective conditions,and also lay the material foundation, provide time assurance, the choice of life path in broader way.

• Social development

The global energy Internet makes social production more synergistic. The global energy Internet is interactive and collaborative, highly integrated with digital and intelligent manufacturing and will play an increasingly important role in promoting the emergence of "distributed" production. The interconnection between enterprises in the future will constitute a bigger and higher-level intelligent production network. The manufacturing mode of the manufacturing industry has undergone profound changes. The multi-species and small-batch production methods can achieve the optimal energy efficiency.

The global energy Internet makes social organization more efficient. The global energy Internet has enabled social division of labor to be more widely implemented on a global scale. The time span between new science, new technology and new ideas to new products, new services and new applications is shortened and the conversion costs are reduced. For the individual, the way of life of the human being presents a distinctive feature of the virtual concentration of the network and the decentralization of the geographical reality. Humans will be in a more relaxed working environment and a more efficient social organization.

The global energy Internet makes the social functioning system more intelligent. In 2050, the smart grid integrates closely with the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet to enrich services in various fields such as energy supply, industrial monitoring, information and communications, domestic medical services, logistics and transportation, distance education and e-commerce, so as to realize the sharing of resources across the entire society and multi-industries collaborative services, expanding a broad application areas. In the area of ​​urban management, two-thirds of the world's population living in cities enjoys convenience. Relying on ubiquitous power grids and communications systems, meteorological monitoring, and city energy use, city managers can analyze, process and make decisions in real time. In the area of ​​medical services, human sensors and network doctors maintain real-time contact and even remotely control mechanical operations to complete emergency procedures. In the field of personal life, wearable devices such as smart glasses and watches will be more powerful and people can mobilize programs in languages, actions or even ideas to accomplish tasks such as news browsing and vehicle startup. In the field of business operations, marketing systems, logistics systems can be highly integrated, unmanned transport can achieve convenient deliveries.

• The ecological environment

The global energy Internet can substantially increase the proportion of global clean energy consumption, significantly reduce the emission of various types of greenhouse gases and pollutants, and solve the ecological and environmental problems. Everywhere developments like , green mountains, green water and blue skies can bring human beings into the new normal of the achievement of ecological civilization.

The global energy Internet also controls climate change. The global energy Internet can fundamentally solved the global climate challenge. From present till 2050, in view of the rapid development of renewable energy, the carbon dioxide emission in 2050 will be only half of that in 1990 and the atmospheric temperature will be decreased by 2 degrees Celsius. The threats to food production, water resources, ecology, urbanization and people's life and property will be greatly reduced. Drought, floods, cyclones and storms, heat waves or cold waves and other extreme climate events can be reduced. According to World Health Organization estimates, from 2030 onwards, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions will save millions of lives each year.

The global energy internet in future can restore the ecological environment by solving many of the energy and ecological problems plaguing humanity.

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