Energy internet in smart city review

Energy crisis and carbon emissions are two major problems for human. As a viable solution, the Energy Internet (EI) has attracted worldwide attention. EI is the Internet development vision for smart grid. In this paper, we have introduced a representative EI architecture, a future renewable energy supply, management system and how artificial intelligence and pattern recognition methods could be applied to smart city. After highlighting the key EI features, the basic energy storage is summarized. Besides, this paper also included some applications.