能源互联网的认识和展望

能源互联网目前已经成为研究热点,但有关其理念、架构、技术、发展路径等诸多方面尚无定论。文中从互联网的发展经验出发,剖析能源互联网的实质和特征,辨析其与智能电网的区别与联系,梳理其关键支撑技术,提出了能源互联网的可能发展路径。指出能源互联网有广义和狭义2种含义,其发展依赖信息通信技术(ICT)、商业模式等8项关键技术和机制,未来的发展可以分为同时并存的自顶向下的广域全球能源互联网和自底向上的局域能源共享网络2种发展模式和路径。

Understanding and Prospects of Energy Internet

The Energy Internet has now become a hot spot research topic. However, there still exist many disputes about its concept, structure, technology and development path. Based on an investigation of the Internet development experience, the essence and characteristics of the Energy Internet are analyzed, the distinction and connection between the Energy Internet and smart grid are made clear, the key supporting technologies combed, and its possible development paths put forward. It is pointed out that the Energy Internet has broad and narrow meanings. The development of the Energy Internet relies on eight key technologies, such as information and communication technology (ICT), business models on Internet, etc. In the future, there will coexist two kinds of development models and paths, one is the top-down wide area global Energy Internet model, the other the bottom-up local area energy sharing network model.