The emerging energy web

There is a general need of elaborating energy-effective solu- tions for managing our increasingly dense interconnected world. The problem should be tackled in multiple dimensions -technology, society, economics, law, regulations, and politics- at different temporal and spa- tial scales. Holistic approaches will enable technological solutions to be supported by socio-economic motivations, adequate incentive regula- tion to foster investment in green infrastructures coherently integrated with adequate energy provisioning schemes. In this article, an attempt is made to describe such multidisciplinary challenges with a coherent set of solutions to be identified to significantly impact the way our interconnected energy world is designed and operated.