To the question of the content of the concept and of ontology of the Energy Internet and of its legal and technological image

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of the concept of Energy Internet. The article notes that the concept of the energy Internet is increasingly being used in the framework of the semantic series of the digital energy, digital economy, digital legal space, industrial Internet of things. The article reveals the essence of scientific discussions around the concept and ontology of the energy Internet. The authors show the approaches presented in the scientific literature to the definition of the energy Internet - as a smart grid, designed to drastically modernize the electricity industry by imposing digital communications on the network. The article explains the concepts of “Internet of Things” (IoT), “Industrial Internet of Things” (IIoT), Smart Grids. The article concluded that the energy Internet is an element of the industrial Internet of things. The article presents the author's definition of the concept of the energy of the Internet. The authors describe the conditions and prerequisites for the creation of the energy of the Internet. The article shows the elements of the structure of the energy Internet. The authors draw attention to the fact that (as in the Digital Internet) in the developing of the Energy Internet, its semantic and ontological part is developing.