Natural gas is an important clean energy source in China, and it is also the main energy source that China needs to focus on in the future, and promoting the development of smart gas based on the Internet foundation is the internal need of the gas industry to continuously improve its professional energy level, and it is also the reform and innovation requirement of the gas industry put forward by the external environment. This article will clarify the relevant concepts of smart gas and the development direction of smart gas.
Natural gas is a high-quality low-carbon energy source, which can form a benign complement to clean energy such as renewable energy to ensure China's energy security, and is also the most realistic choice to optimize the energy structure and protect the ecological environment. In the context of China's rapid urbanization process, the gas industry has ushered in important development opportunities. The national "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of "Internet" + Smart Energy proposes to make good use of the means of "Internet +", do a good job of intelligent foundation, build a green, low-carbon, safe and efficient domestic modern energy system, promote the deep integration between energy and information, promote the development of new technologies and new models and new formats of Internet + smart energy, and strive to initially build an Internet-based smart energy industry system by 2025.
1. The connotation of Internet + smart gas.
Internet + smart gas refers to the user demand-oriented, in the gas industry chain into the integration of advanced concepts such as the Internet and intelligence, the activation of gas sources, gas facilities, users and service providers and other components, to create an intelligent gas ecosystem, to achieve from the first, transmission and distribution to the interconnection between applications, the gas industry into an organism, stimulate the development activities and endogenous power of the gas industry. Compared with the traditional gas industry, Internet + smart gas can provide customers with a better service experience, reduce natural gas transaction costs, and improve the intrinsic safety of natural gas.
2. Analysis of the development trend of the gas industry at home and abroad.
In recent years, with the rapid development of international oil and gas exploration and development technology, the world's natural gas is relatively relaxed, and many developed countries have achieved active expansion to the field of natural gas power generation through new infrastructure, and stimulated domestic gas demand through the development of industrial gas and industrial operation, which shows that natural gas is expected to become the fossil energy with the fastest growth rate of supply and demand in the world.
2.1 Smart gas is the development trend of the international gas industry.
From the perspective of international leading countries and regions, it is an important experience to promote the safe and orderly development of the natural gas market by actively building a competitive market structure, constantly innovating trading methods, striving to build an energy service system for the whole industry chain, and encouraging the development of smart gas. GRDF is the largest operator of the transmission and distribution network in Europe, with 8 branches in France and 19 gas transmission and distribution networks under operation and management50,000 km, connecting 955 cities and towns, serving 1,100 end users. Since 2000, GRDF has begun to develop smart gas on a large scale, from the digitization of original archives to the unification of data, to the unification of information system construction standards and the integration of information system platforms, and the completion of the popularization of key node monitoring terminals and the development of application software, etc., and has initially realized the construction of the French smart gas system framework. After the process of liberalization, the natural gas market in the EU region has introduced market competition, third-party access and non-discriminatory treatment in transmission and distribution, expanded import capacity, improved border interconnection, expanded infrastructure settings, and gradually carried out smart gas work, forming a highly interconnected and highly liquid gas market.
2.2 Comprehensive smart service is the development direction of domestic gas enterprises.
China is one of the countries with the richest reserves of natural gas resources in the world, and it is also one of the earliest countries to exploit and utilize natural gas resources. In 2016, China's annual natural gas consumption reached 205.8 billion m3, an increase of 66%。At present, China's natural gas has carried out a new era of rapid development, but there are still problems such as unbalanced development between urban and rural areas, uneven development level of upstream and downstream technologies in the gas industry chain, and uneven quality of gas market-oriented services. At the same time, China's well-known gas companies have begun to contact and develop Internet + smart gas, China City Gas Association set up a smart gas network committee, and held the 2017 third China Smart Gas Development Forum in Shanghai on May 26, 2017, selected dozens of representative gas companies from Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and other regions and relevant regulatory departments of the gas industry to share and explore in the field of smart gas, and clarified the entry point of the gas industry based on user-side intelligent services. It adopts information-based metering and pipeline integrity management, and uses high-precision Beidou technology and new technologies such as the Internet of Things and energy blockchain to develop a smart gas development model.
3. Suggestions for the development of smart gas based on the Internet.
Smart gas has become an important direction for the future development of the gas industry at home and abroad, and many countries and some regions in China have made active attempts on the development path of Internet + smart gas, constantly summarizing the problems encountered in the process of practice, formulating improvement countermeasures, and promoting the overall process of smart gas development.
3.1. Combine deepening institutional reform with strengthening supervision.
In the process of promoting the reform of the natural gas system, it is necessary to pay full attention to the laws of the market, give full play to the role of market self-regulation, do a good job in the management of demand-side services, promote the development of competitive business in an orderly manner, innovate the development mechanism of the industry, and gradually straighten out the formation mechanism of the market. At the same time, it is necessary to do a good job in the supervision of the industry and the market, formulate the scope of regulatory responsibilities and the list of corporate social responsibility, actively mobilize the industry associations to guide and restrain the enterprises in the association, formulate standardized standards for gas industry services, and promote the self-discipline development of the industry.
3.2. Establish an information security standard system.
After years of development, gas enterprises have basically completed the development of production management, safety management and customer management information platform, but the internal construction standards of each enterprise do not agree, and the inheritance of the platform information system to various information is weak, and no effective platform data collaboration mechanism has been formed. At the same time, with the development of information technology, smart gas will face certain information security risks, so it is recommended that enterprises in the construction process of the information platform to independent innovation technology, build a unified information security standard system in the industry, build an Internet + smart gas service supervision platform, make good use of the existing data advantages of gas enterprises, on the basis of adhering to the principle of safety, apply to gas planning and investment, design, construction and operation transactions, emergency protection and early warning supervision. Give full play to the innovative value of big data for the development of the industry, and promote the continuous improvement of the intelligent service capabilities of the gas industry.
3.3. Improve customer affinity for smart gas services.
The development of smart gas requires gas companies to use the concept of Internet + gas to dig deep into the energy demand of the user side, expand the scale of the user-side natural gas clean energy to other non-clean energy in urban and rural buildings and vehicle and ship energy consumption, better meet the user's demand for cooling and heating + electric drive, and guide the user to realize the transformation to high-grade gas consumption mode by promoting safe, efficient and convenient intelligent gas energy. At the same time, gas companies should seize the current development opportunities of smart energy, make good use of the natural combination advantages between natural gas and other renewable energy, try the integrated operation mode of wind, solar, water, fire and storage complementary system, and realize the coordinated development and utilization of natural gas distributed energy and clean energy such as wind energy, solar energy, geothermal energy, and bioenergy according to the actual situation of various places, and better play the role of natural gas as the main force in China's clean energy substitution through smart services.
In the context of the development of China's Internet + smart energy, based on users and market demand, the active development of Internet + smart gas is to promote the energy level of the gas industry, an important direction towards the "Belt and Road", and also an important guarantee for China's energy security.