There is a significant spatial mismatch between the global distribution of clean energy resources and energy consumption centers, which is the fundamental logical starting point for building a global energy internet.

Northern Europe, Siberia, northern Canada, and Alaska have over 4,000 effective wind hours per year, containing large-scale polar wind energy resources. However, they are far from major load centers in Eurasia, so local absorption capacity is extremely limited.

World-class rivers such as the Congo and Amazon, combined with terrain differences like the East African Rift Valley and the Brazilian Plateau, combined with abundant rainfall, create excellent conditions for large-scale hydropower development. Projects such as the Ethiopia Reconstruction Dam and the Itaipu Hydropower Station in Brazil have validated the development value of this endowment, but the degree of regional grid interconnection is low, making large-scale optimization difficult.

In recent years, the global energy security and climate governance landscape has become increasingly complex, further highlighting the urgency of building a stable and diverse global clean energy sharing network.

The Middle East remains volatile, with shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz directly affecting about 20% of global oil and liquefied natural gas supply, exposing the vulnerability of fossil energy trade routes.

Some countries are increasing investments in fossil fuels, which contrasts with major economies like China and Europe pushing emission reductions, putting global climate governance at risk of fragmentation

The implementation of the global energy internet relies on the coordinated efforts of three major technology systems: ultra-high voltage transmission, artificial intelligence dispatch, and pan-energy big data, providing the physical foundation and intelligent brain-system integration capabilities for clean energy shared across mountains and seas.

Ultra-high voltage transmission is the core technology for long-distance, low-loss clean energy transmission. China has established a mature technical system and engineering experience in this field, capable of transmitting clean energy from the west across thousands of kilometers to the eastern load center, with transmission losses far lower than those of traditional voltage-level grids.

Today, this technology is extending globally: from Arctic wind power bases to equatorial photovoltaic hubs, from African hydropower hubs to the Central Asian wind corridor, UHV DC corridors are becoming the energy arteries connecting clean energy bases and load centers across continents. UHV not only solves the problem of "whether there is electricity," but also addresses the core bottleneck of "whether it can transmit power over long distances with low loss," thoroughly solving the problem of separating clean energy resources from load center space.

If ultra-high voltage and AI are the "skeleton" and "brain" of the energy internet, then data is the "blood" flowing within it. At the beginning of 2026, the "Pan-Energy Big Data" concept proposed at the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Economy is taking this vision to new heights.

The core logic is that energy is not just the physical flow of electricity, but also the hub for multidimensional social operations. By breaking down data barriers in energy, economy, environment, and markets, a comprehensive data platform covering energy flow, information flow, carbon flow, and value flow is being built, achieving full-chain coordination of energy development, transmission, trading, and carbon reduction, providing data support and decision-making basis for cross-border green electricity trading, precise carbon reduction across the entire industry chain, and global energy collaborative governance.

Relying on this facility, plans such as "Green Manufacturing in China" have launched full-chain precise carbon reduction solutions, providing an open cooperation platform for global energy coordinated development.

Technical feasibility requires institutional protection; the global energy internet has shifted from conceptual consensus to global coordinated action, forging a path of multilateral cooperation based on consultation, joint construction, and shared benefits.

Initiated by China, the Global Energy Internet Development Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) is the first international organization in the energy sector initiated by China. After ten years of development, it has brought together 145 countries and 1,450 members, building a three-dimensional cooperation system covering enterprises, think tanks, universities, and financial institutions, becoming the core platform for global energy sharing. Its positioning is not to participate in specific projects in a single country, but to build a multilateral platform for consultation, co-construction, and sharing, promoting the efficient global circulation of resources, technology, knowledge, and capital, and turning clean energy sharing from a concept into a mechanism, and from a mechanism into action.

The organization focuses on five major areas to advance international standard development: high-proportion grid connection of power electronic equipment, transnational flexible DC transmission, new energy storage, digital intelligent dispatching, and cross-border power markets and carbon emission coordination mechanisms, aiming to reduce cross-border cooperation costs and break down technical and regulatory barriers through unified standards. At the same time, the Global Energy Internet Initiative has been deeply embedded in the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda, the Paris Agreement, the Belt and Road Initiative, China-Africa, China-Arab countries, and other multilateral mechanisms, becoming an important framework for global climate and energy governance.

Through capacity building, technology sharing, and mutual financial assistance, the global energy internet helps developing countries transform their clean energy resource advantages into development advantages, comprehensively enhance grid construction, operation and maintenance, and energy transition capabilities, achieve low-cost, large-scale development of clean energy, and make the energy transition fairer, more inclusive, and more inclusive.

These practices send the same signal: a new global energy landscape led by cleanliness, electricity-centric, interconnected, and smartly efficient is rapidly taking shape. Clean energy transcends mountains and seas to achieve global sharing, moving from a vision to reality.