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. 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. The Energy Internet adopts the mechanism of “regional coordination and hierarchical control” to realize the clean power compatibility and reliability in power operation. In the network topology, the traditional tree network is transformed to the hierarchical partition network. First, this paper. Then, we propose a new universal definition of the EI by bringing together the various existing definitions and concepts in light of the upcoming smart grid.
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