General Principles of Energy Internet

Energy Internet integrates small-scale renewable energy systems, electric loads, storage devices, and electric vehicles for effective transaction of power backed by emerging technologies such as Internet of Things, vehicle-to-grid, and blockchain. Energy Internet, a futuristic evolution of electricity system, is conceptualized as an energy sharing network. Its features, such as plug-and-play mechanism, real-time bidirectional flow of energy, information, and money can lead to significant benefits and innovation in electricity production and. This textbook is the first of its kind to comprehensively describe the energy Internet, a vast network that efficiently supplies electricity to anyone anywhere and is an internet based wide area network for information and energy fusion. The chapters are organized into five parts: Architecture and. This work was supported in part by the Academy of Finland EE-IoT Project under Grant 319009, in part by the FIREMAN Consortium CHIST-ERA under Grant 326270, and in part by the EnergyNet Research Fellowship under Grant 321265 and Grant 328869. [PDF]