Energy Internet integrates small-scale renewable energy systems, electric loads, storage devices, and electric vehicles for effective transaction of power backed by emerging technologies such as Internet of Things, vehicle-to-grid, and blockchain. Its features, such as plug-and-play mechanism, real-time bidirectional flow of energy, information, and money can lead to significant benefits and innovation in electricity production and. In light of current developments in information and telecommunication network technology, the concept of the Energy Internet (EI) has been proposed. Many steps have been done recently to put the EI into practise. These EI models have a lot in common, and yet no one has settled on a single. Energy Internet,sponsored by Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering (CSEE), and published by China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI) in cooperation with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), is a multidisciplinary gold open access journal covering power and energy, power. Energy Internet, a futuristic evolution of electricity system, is conceptualized as an energy sharing network. It integrates distributed renewable sources, storage, EVs, and smart buildings, allowing them to exchange data and power in real-time to enhance. Energy Internet, as the product of the deep integration of energy system and Internet technology, can become a possible way to approach the "energy impossible triangle" in the process of energy transformation. In this paper, the technology, characteristics, development status and the necessity of.