Energy is information. Spatiality is information. Time is information. They are separate variable parameters which determine information transfer as well as information channel formation , each in regard to its own range of operation. Information is not the just the intangible codification of energy.
Energy is information, be it light, electromagnetic radiation, stimulus-response or whatever.
And energy, as information, is transmitted under those conditions and through those channels as the nature and construction of the environment permits. An environment therefore is defined as that region through which information can be differentiated by means of multiple loci. This obviously includes all situations where component systems and sub-systems are united to the same materials of construction but differ in their direction of entropic flow because of differing ranges and levels of activity. Entropy can be evaluated in regard to the whole of a system. It can also be attributed to sub-components.