As an emerging industry which incorporates energy conservation and environmental protection with new-generation information technologies, smart energy has an enormous market and is initiating a global industrial revolution. On 15 November 2013, the 3rd China Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Standardized Technology Forum and Smart Energy International Summit, which was themed with “Smart energy: Combination of energy conservation and environmental protection and new-generation information technologies”, was held in Ariva Beijing West Hotel. Organized by the National Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Standardized Technology Union and the Smart Energy Industry Technology Innovation Strategy Union, the summit was collaboratively sponsored by China National Institute of Standardization, China Telecom Corporation Limited Beijing Research Institute, Beijing Internet Institute, Next Generation Internet Key Technology and Assessment Beijing Municipality Engineering Research Center and Longdhua (Beijing) Cloud Energy Science & Technology Co., Ltd. About 300 experts in the industry had in-depth discussions on the smart energy industry and vigorously promote the smart energy development in China and even in the world with the open platform of the Smart Energy Industry Technology Innovation Strategy Union and the IEEE1888 standards.

The summit was chaired by Wang Minzhong, the Director-General of the National Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Standardized Technology Union. At the summit, Sun Xiaokang, the Vice Director of Standardization Administration of the People’s Republic of China, Lv Wenbin, the Deputy Director-General of Environmental Resources Division of the National Development & Reform Commission, Feng Fei, the Director of the Industrial Department of the Development Research Center of State Council, and Ma Lincong, the Director of China National Institution of Standardization, proposed their requirements on the standards, policies, technical routes and key standards related to smart energy and expressed their hope that the Smart Energy Industry Technology Innovation Strategy Union would start the task and undertake labor distribution as quickly as possible so as to accelerate the industrialization of smart energy. Subsequently, Li Aixian, the Secretary-General of the National Energy Conservation and Emission Standardized Technology Union, reported the major tasks of the Union in 2013 and issued four standards of the Union, including “Application Guide for the Ubiquitous Network-Based Construction Energy Conservation Monitoring Control Commonness Technology Scheme”. Additionally, Liu Dong, the Executive Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Smart Energy Industry Technology Innovation Strategy Union, reported the basic situation and work plans of the Union. 

The special topic reports were chaired by Lin Ling, the Director of Science and Technology Committee of the National Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Standardized Technology Union. At the summit, Li Junfeng, the Director of the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC), pointed out that information technologies were fully capable of creating a smart and transparent energy system. According to Feng Fei – the Director of the Industrial Department of the Development Research Center of State Council, how to take advantage of information technologies to promote energy conservation and emission reduction with a low cost and a high efficiency was a problem worthy of our consideration and it was also important to form commercial modes consistent with the smart energy industry in the third industrial revolution. Robert Taylor, the former chief energy expert from the World Bank, shared with the audience how users combine energy data to create a new commercial mode which consisted of three aspects, namely data collection, energy conservation and market mechanism. Hiroshi Esaki form the University of Tokyo introduced how Japan undertook strategic application of cloud and big data centers on the basis of the green energy standard system IEEE1888. Long Di, an official from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, introduced the Mayor Covenant in the EU, the electric power supplier market in Germany and the suppliers of renewable energies in Holland. 

The keynote speeches were chaired by Pan Chongchao, the Standing Deputy Secretary-General of the National Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Standardized Technology Union. In his speech, Cai Guoxiong, the Vice Chief Engineer of China Electric Power Research Institute, pointed out that electric vehicles were excellent transportation tools and would become goo energy-storing devices in the future. According to him, we can recharge electric vehicles when there is too much electricity in the grid; the combination of electric vehicles and the smart grid would enable them to transmit electricity to the grid when the grid is in shortage of electricity; people can “speculate on electricity” through recharging and power supply of electric vehicles. Chen Yunqing, the Deputy Director of China Telecom Group Beijing Research Institute, Dong Wensheng from Baosteel Group, Jiang Yongdong, the General Manager of Longdhua (Beijing) Cloud Energy Science & Technology Co., Ltd. and other representatives in the industry also introduced the application of smart energy in various industries. 

The Smart Energy Elite Forum was chaired by Jiang Lianshan, the Deputy Director of Next Generation Intenret Key Technology and Assessment Beijing Municipality Engineering Research Center. There, experts from the Energy Institute of the National Development & Reform Commission, GREE, PHILIPS, Emerson, Beijing Tellhow Intelligent Engineering Co., Ltd. and ENGQ had systematic discussions on the current situation, outlook, key technologies and challenges of smart energy. 

Based on the open system of the Internet, smart energy makes use of big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, IPv6 and other information communication technologies to monitor, operate, control and manage the systems of producing, transmitting, distributing, storing and using energies and to provide clients with energy conservation services. By combining energy conservation, environmental protection and information consumption, it develops new models, services and operations. To date, the IEEE 1888 Smart Energy Standard, which are led by Chinese enterprises and adopted by famous manufacturers around the world, has become one of the most influential international standards in global smart energy.

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