To realize renewable-energy-based electrification goals, a new concept—the Energy Internet (EI)—has been proposed, inspired by the most recent advances in (data) information and telecommunication network architectures. Recently, many measures have been taken to practically implement. An understanding of the technologies that underpin and encompass the current and future EI is very important to push toward a standardized version of the EI that will eventually make it easier to implement it across the world. What was once a centralized, one-way system is becoming a dynamic, distributed and deeply connected digital network, something I often describe as building the “energy internet. In 1986, Peter Meisen founded the Global Energy Network Institute, aiming to fully utilize renewable resources on a global scale through power transmission lines between countries.
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