Empowering “Energy” with “Numbers”: Mechanism, Challenges, and Path Selection of Digital and Intelligent Enablement Across the Energy Industry Chain

Currently, the energy industry is at a critical stage of transformation and upgrading. Amid the shifts in global energy structures, mounting environmental pressures, and rapid technological changes, advancing the energy industry towards high-efficiency, clean, and low-carbon development has become a major technical challenge that must be addressed. The widespread application of digital and intelligent technologies provides new opportunities and driving forces for innovative development within the energy industry. However, substantial challenges and bottlenecks exist across technical, managerial, policy, and economic dimensions in the digital and intelligent empowerment of the entire energy industry chain. Strategies such as exploring automated production control, innovating in smart operations, enhancing the safety of new productive force empowered by digitalization and intelligentization, and strengthening the "green" edge of the entire industry chain should be actively promoted to advance the high-quality development of the energy industry chain.