This refers to the use of cutting-edge control, metering, communication, and other technologies to bring together a wide variety of decentralised energy resources (DERs), such as power plants, batteries, variable loads, electric cars, and more. The routing or managing of electrical energy is performed through an energy router (ER), synonymous with a communication router, which routes data packets instead of energy packets. Energy Internet (often reflects Internet plus energy) is a novel energy network that interconnects the power system components: production, transmission, storage, and consumption through a software-defined energy network. Since it was proposed, EI has been discussed and applied to many technical works in power and energy areas.
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