Energy Finance in the Age of Big Data

Since we entered into the 21st century, a new era of energy finance, energy has become a new financial investment vehicle where the electronic information carrier and network platform have played an important role. The arrival of the big data era highlights the important position of information competition and network advantage. The traditional market transaction pattern has been overturned, and the high-frequency monitoring & transaction, market public opinion analysis and ubiquitous network contagion become the new keywords leading the market activities. The big data technology promotes the theoretical innovation of energy finance. Combining the traditional market theory with the network analysis method, it expands the existing methodology and research scope from the new perspectives of information theory and behavioral finance, and it is forming the new research direction and scientific issue. The big data technology also provides new analysis tools for the energy finance market. The massive data and qualitative progress of data processing technology propose the new ideas and challenges for the market design, transaction mode, and risk monitoring of China' s energy finance. Therefore, a series of new measures should be taken for China energy finance market. As a result, China may play the essential role in the global energy finance system