Research on the conceptual model of smart energy system

Energy is crucial to human beings. However, our most widely used energy, fossil energy, is exhaustible and endangered. Nowadays, the situation of world energy is tending towards the renewable energy, which is abundant but requires specific technologies to utilize it more effectively, or more cleverly. A new concept - Smart Energy System has been proposed as an integration of Information System and Energy System. It adopts advanced technologies coming from plenty of fields includes Information Technology, Intelligent Control and Optimization Technology, Modern Energy Technology, etc. To propel forward the Smart Energy System, domestically and world widely, we must have a completed establishment of standards. To set up a standardization for a Smart Energy System, we need to explicitly figure out its conceptual model, essential features, theoretical basis and technical requirements, environmental conditions, etc. This paper concentrates on the description of world energy situation, the introduction of Smart Energy and the study of the conceptual model for a Smart Energy System.