Global energy network is an important platform to guarantee effective exploitation of global clean energy and ensure reliable energy supply for everybody. Global Energy Interconnection analyzes the current situation and challenges of global energy development, provides the strategic thinking, overall objective, basic pattern, construction method and development mode for the development of global energy network. Based on the prediction of global energy and electricity supply and demand in the future, with the development of UHV AC/DC and smart grid technologies, this book offers new solutions to drive the safe, clean, highly efficient and sustainable development of global energy.

The concept and development ideas concerning global energy interconnection in this book are based on the author's thinking of strategic issues about China's and the world's energy and electricity development for many years, especially combined with successful practices of China's UHV development. This book is particularly suitable for researchers and graduated students engaged in energy sector, as well as energy economics researchers, economists, consultants, and government energy policy makers in relevant fields.

Based on the author's many years' experience in developing Smart Grid solutions within national and international projects.
Combines both solid background information and cutting-edge technology progress, coupled with a useful and impressive list of references.
The key energy problems which are challenging us nowadays are well stated and explained in this book, which facilitates a better understanding of the development of global energy interconnection with UHV AC/DC and smart grid technologies.

Professor Zhenya Liu, has been the senior engineer, President and Chairman of the State Grid Corporation of China since 2002 and has been engaged in electric power and energy work for many years. His published books include, Electric Power and Energy in China , Ultra-high Voltage AC/DC Grids, and Smart Grid Technology.
The concept and development ideas concerning global energy interconnection in this book are based on the author's many years of involvement in the strategic issues of China's and the world's energy and electricity development, especially combined this, with the successful practices of China's UHV development.

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Professor Zhenya Liu, has been the senior engineer, President and Chairman of the State Grid Corporation of China since 2002 and has been engaged in electric power and energy work for many years. His published books include, Electric Power and Energy in China , Ultra-high Voltage AC/DC Grids, and Smart Grid Technology.The concept and development ideas concerning global energy interconnection in this book are based on the author's many years of involvement in the strategic issues of China's and the world's energy and electricity development, especially combined this, with the successful practices of China's UHV development.

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Foreword

Energy provides an important physical foundation of socioeconomic development. Mankind's exploitation of energy has evolved over time, from firewood to fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, and then to clean energy resources derived from hydropower, wind power, and solar power. Each evolution has seen tremendous progress in productivity and human civilization. As a motive power for modernization, energy is closely associated with the national economy as well as people's livelihood and human well-being. Countries all over the world now share a strategic goal to expedite the development of a safe, reliable, economical, efficient, clean, and environment-friendly modern energy supply system by capitalizing on a new round of energy evolution.

Over the past three centuries since the advent of industrialization, the global energy industry has witnessed rapid growth, vigorously bolstering the global economy and social development. At the same time, overdevelopment of conventional fossil energy resulted in a host of problems, such as insufficient resources, environmental pollution, and climate change, which are threatening human existence and sustainable development. Global fossil fuel resources are insufficient and their distribution and consumption imbalanced. As a result, energy development is increasingly controlled by a minority of countries and regions. Some resource-scarce countries are depending more and more on imported energy supply and facing highly pressing energy security concerns. Besides, the use of fossil energy has caused severe pollution and damage to air, water, and soil during the production, transportation, and utilization processes. Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion have become a significant factor contributing to global warming, glacial melting, and rising sea levels. In the foreseeable future, energy demand will continue to grow and the conventional energy development model based on fossil fuels is difficult to sustain amid the expanding global economy and increasing world population.

Seeking a solution to these energy and environmental concerns with the objective of removing the bottleneck in socioeconomic development is now a matter of utmost urgency. In a world abundant with clean energy resources, hydropower, onshore wind energy and solar power amount to 10,000, 1,000,000, and 100,000,000 GW respectively, far more than enough to meet global energy needs. Since the twenty-first century, the development of an energy structure centered on electricity and characterized by clean energy has gathered momentum. Massive development and utilization of clean energy such as wind and solar power has become a common option among the world's major nations. Supported by the advancement of technology and the application of new materials, the development of wind energy, solar power, marine energy, and other clean energy sources has become more efficient, resulting in stronger technical economies and market competitiveness. These alternative energy sources will probably become the world's dominant form of energy. Most of the clean energy sources can be used in a highly efficient way only after transformation into electric power, which, as a quality, clean, and efficient form of secondary energy, can meet the great majority of energy demand and may therefore become the most important energy for end-users in the future. From the perspective of global energy development trends and resource endowment, the pursuit of a "two-replacement" strategy that encompasses clean energy and electricity as two energy substitutes, is an important direction of development for global energy sustainability.

Marking a fundamental reform in the conventional models and concepts of energy production and consumption, the "two-replacement" strategy requires us to develop a global energy view to address energy concerns with a global, historical, forward-looking, and sy

Contenu

Foreword Chapter 1 Current Situation and Challenges of Global Energy Development Chapter 2 Replacement with Clean Energy and Electricity Chapter 3 Global Energy View Chapter 4 Global Energy and Electricity Supply and Demand Chapter 5 Building Global Energy Internet Chapter 6 Technical Innovation of Global Energy Internet Chapter 7 Research and Practice Foundation of Global Energy Internet Chapter 8 Global Energy Internet Changing the World Index References