Internet of Things is the foundation: Energy Internet connects hundreds of millions of devices, machines and systems at the energy production end, energy transmission end and energy consumption end by using advanced sensors, controls and software applications, thus forming the Internet of Things foundation of energy Internet. Big data analysis, machine learning and prediction are important technical supports for the energy Internet to realize life characteristics. By integrating operation data, weather data, meteorological data, power grid data and power market data, the Energy Internet carries out big data analysis, load forecasting, power generation forecasting and machine learning, thus opening up and optimizing the operation efficiency of energy production and energy consumption, and the supply and demand can be dynamically adjusted at any time.
In the past year, with the publication of the book "The Third Industrial Revolution" by American futurist Rifkin, the concept of energy internet field has been gradually heated up in China. Rifkin, who has traveled back and forth between China and the United States for many times, expounds the view in his new book that after the first industrial revolution and the second industrial revolution, the "third industrial revolution" will be the impact of the Internet on the energy industry. That is to combine Internet technology with renewable energy, and transform the traditional centralized energy exploitation, distribution and utilization into intelligent decentralized energy, thus turning the global power grid into an energy sharing network.
"Energy Internet" will help to form a huge "market" of energy assets and realize the whole life cycle management of energy assets. Through this "market", we can effectively integrate the upstream and downstream parties in the industrial chain, form the interaction and transaction between supply and demand, let more low-risk capital enter the field of energy investment and development, and effectively control the risk of new energy investment.
The "Energy Internet" will also match the supply and demand information in real time, integrate scattered demand, and form energy transactions and demand responses. When every family becomes a consumer and supplier of energy, electricity is traded all the time, such as the distributed photovoltaic power station on the roof and the charging and discharging of electric vehicles.