Huawei's most recent knowledge: Smart PV for future

• The new president of Huawei's Smart PV Business Unit, Chen Guoguang, talks with pv magazine concerning his brand-new function in the company as well as the future of his division. Enhanced investment in clever PV R&D as well as technological development go to the top of the schedule. The intelligentization of energy products is additionally a top priority, with much to be gained from the assimilation of details as well as communications technologies (ICT) as well as energy.

You recently took over as the new president of Huawei's Smart PV Business Unit. Just how does your experience provide well to the new feature?

I have gathered almost 12 years' experience in global research and development and also seven years' experience in worldwide sales and also monitoring roles in Huawei's Smart PV Business, which has given me with an extensive expertise and also understanding of both sector difficulties and also customer demands. Currently, my group and also I are working relentlessly to create the industry-leading products and also services which will certainly give the best feasible worth for customers all over the globe.

Exists a new path that you prepare to take the Smart PV Business Unit down?

The growth of the clever PV business involves 3 elements. Initially, we will certainly remain to raise financial investment in clever PV research and development. Second, we will certainly increase Huawei smart PV's international market visibility, which entails developing sales as well as solution teams in even more nations as well as regions to supply customers with much better services. Ultimately, we will adequately incorporate our leading ICT technologies-- such as 5G, AI, and the cloud-- which have established swiftly over the last two years, with solar and also storage space. Our vision, which echoes the purpose of Smart PV For Future, is to expand the application of PV power with ingenious innovations and make smart PV obtainable to all, while adding to developing a world that is both eco-friendly and also risk-free.

Leveraging the telecoms service to solar is a clear benefit of Huawei's abilities on the market.

It is the integration of ICT technologies as well as power that separates Huawei from its competitors. We make use of digital modern technologies to link energy items, make it possible for preventative upkeep, as well as recognize the intelligentization of energy items. The application of electronic innovations to the power industry enhances traditional stupid devices with smart abilities, enhancing market efficiency and supplying a maximized user experience. Huawei's PV organisation has actually progressed from electronic PV to internet-powered PV, and also now to AI-powered PV. The Huawei wise PV service system has actually advanced communications modern technologies as well as big financial investment in R&D.

Huawei just recently forecasted 10 patterns for wise PV development in the next five years, which has sparked heated conversation in the industry. How do you analyze these fads and also their influence on the market?

We mapped out these fads after holding a comprehensive discussion with global sector specialists, seeking advice from companies, as well as upstream and downstream partners of the sector chain from 4 dimensions: digitalization and intelligentization, grid kindness, lower LCOE, as well as protection and also trustworthiness. The 10 fads especially include digitalization, AI-driven smart upgrades, unmanned PV plants, proactive support for power grids, solar+storage space, virtual nuclear power plant (VPPs), updated security, higher power density, modular design, and safety and security as well as trustworthiness.

I believe that the 10 fads can lead the whole new power market by supplying a referral for innovation and also growth. However, the smart world is showing up much faster than we prepared for. I believe these fads will certainly end up being facts well prior to 2025. Some patterns are already happening, such as solar+storage, AI-powered PV, and VPPs.

The patterns are mostly pertaining to intelligentization, digitalization, and also cloudification-- which are unavoidable concepts in the market. Today, an enhancing variety of technologies are driven by digital innovations-- 5G, the cloud, AI, and other modern technologies are essential to advancement and also are increasing the electronic makeover of various markets. Extra significantly, these innovations are integrating with each other and bringing unprecedented revolutionary changes. Everything will be linked online, everything will certainly be connected to the cloud, and also AI applications will certainly be common-- thus reshaping everything we understand today.

How do you assume industry gamers will continue to be affordable as we progress right into the following period of digitalization at such a rapid price?

In this innovation-driven ecological community, success will just be accomplished by game-changers who suggest originalities, create brand-new business models, as well as launch brand-new product or services. Seven years back, we promoted the smart PV service with string inverters as the core. Dealing with substantial challenges, we accomplished an extraordinary efficiency, which required both courage as well as discreetness, by firmly believing that advancements bring success. Today, we stand at the entryway to the smart world, where we anticipate another turning factor. We will carefully work together with partners to achieve more success.

You pointed out solar+storage. This is absolutely stepping up as the brand-new remedy in the energy shift. Just how is Huawei adjusting its company model appropriately?

In residential circumstances, the basic LCOE of the solar+storage solution is much more competitive than that of standard power remedies as a result of the development as well as decreasing costs of PV and power storage innovations. In areas with high feed-in tariffs, such as Germany, Japan, and also Australia, the LCOE of solar+storage space is even lower than the residential feed-in tariffs, permitting a brand-new business version to be developed. In the second half of 2020, Huawei will certainly release the dispersed house solar+storage remedy to help people in these areas improve using environment-friendly and affordable energy.

For large plants, Huawei thinks that the solar+storage space solution will certainly be mainly made an application for the improvement of power grids. New energy is not totally secure in regards to power generation, and also the stability issue will become much more major with the boosting application of brand-new energy to power grids. As an example, the power grid's demands for frequency modulation and height modification will certainly become more extreme. The solar+storage service can deal with these troubles, and also it will certainly be an unavoidable pattern of PV advancement in the future. Presently, markets are first being established in position where a steady power system is in more immediate demand, such as Australia and the United States. In the future, this need will come to be global.

Is Huawei leveraging its other organisation units to sustain the improvement of storage for the PV organisation?

Huawei has extensive experience in lead-acid as well as lithium battery system applications in the fields of telecom website energy, information facility facilities, and incurable power supply. It likewise has abundant technical experience in reliable power storage system style, high-performance bare steel web server (BMS), electrochemical cell system safety, and smart medical diagnosis as well as analysis. Based on these system technologies as well as experience in the PV area, Huawei is committed to building leading solar+storage solutions with optimum LCOE and levelized cost of storage space (LCOS), optimal protection, and also streamlined O&M.

Climate modification is an expanding worldwide problem, as well as while the PV market plays an energetic function in the power transition, there are obstacles bordering production and also waste processes. How is Huawei developing its items with ecological concerns in mind?

Power conservation and also discharge reductions have long been an incorporated part of Huawei's item life cycle. As an example, we quantitatively evaluate the environmental effect of products in different stages, such as raw material extraction, production, transport, usage, as well as recycling, to recognize product deficiency against environmental management. In regards to innovation in environmental protection, the emphasis is on boosting the energy as well as product effectiveness of items.

We likewise innovate in making procedures, product packaging, transport, as well as recycling, in order to promote environmental protection across ICT product lifecycles. For product packaging, we embrace lightweight, environment-friendly packaging. We likewise created recyclable metal pallets to replace wood ones, and also we use solid paper boxes rather than wooden ones. This reduces timber usage and carbon exhausts. Huawei is committed to decreasing its environmental impact throughout manufacturing, operation, and the services and product life process.