Architecture and optimization approach of Ubiquitous Energy Network (UEN)

Next generation energy technologies become the urgent topics concerning the global energy crisis. The difficulties for the development of energy network are inevitable with the growing of information network and thing network. In this paper, authors proposed Ubiquitous Energy Network (UEN), which combining energy network, information network and thing network to meet the challenges of traditional energy systems. UEN´s 4-stage full lifecycle and architecture are introduced firstly and the advantages of UEN are summarized. To optimize the UEN, It will meet “the curse of dimensionality” in searching optimal strategies caused by complicated coupling of different energy flow. Our practice shows that Ordinal Optimization method with Ordinal Parameter Laws can solve the problem very well by minimizing the energy consumption and maximizing 4-stages satisfaction degree. The case study on ENN Eco-city and the simulation experiment show that UEN and its optimization methods provide a promising concept and solution for next-generation energy systems.