China has taken important and courageous steps to reform its power sector over the last two decades. Under its 9th Five-Year Plan, China has proposed to connect all the power systems together and build joint power systems. During the period from the 10th to the 12th Five-Year Plan, the West-East Electricity Transfer Project was expanded in scope, improving the western provinces' electricity-generating capacity. During the 13th Five-Year Plan, the term “Energy Internet” first appeared in key documents. The plan aimed to develop a coordinated system based on “source-network-load-storage” to help achieve the optimized regulation of the whole power system. The 14th Five-Year Plan” proposed to transform electric power grids into smart grids, and encouraged diversified energy storage development models based on the different needs of power sources, grids, and loads. 
  

Energy Internet is an important technology to support new electrical power systems. It can also be served as an effective approach to improve efficiency for solving the electric dispatch problem. However, its development in China is still very incipient.

With the success of ICEIPS 2022, ICEIPS 2023 aims to provide a learning and exchange platform for experts, scholars, engineering technicians and technical researchers  to share scientific research achievements, explore cutting-edge technologies and expand research ideas, so as to promote the development of relevant fields. Scholars from home and abroad are warmly welcomed to contribute and participate in the conference.

Northeastern University (NEU) was founded on April 26, 1923. In its history of over 90 years, the university has formed its unique spirit: “Striving constantly for improvement and behaving in conformity with truth”. It has gained a number of high-level scientific research achievements, such as the first analog computer, the first domestically produced CT, the first piece of super steel, the new technology of smelting vanadium titanium magnetite, the energy-saving theory and technology of steel industry, the controlled rolling and controlled cooling technique, and the mixed intelligent optimization control technology. By establishing the first university science park in China, it has established a series of high-tech enterprises, such as the Neusoft Corporation and the Neunn Technology Inc., and formed its unique characteristics in the areas of technological innovation, technological transfer and industry-university cooperation.