Huawei Releases Top 10 Trends in Intelligent Photovoltaics for 2024
Huawei held the 2024 Smart Photovoltaics Top 10 Trends Conference with the theme "Continuous Innovation, Quality Wins the Future, and Accelerating Photovoltaics to Become the Main Energy." At the meeting, Hao Yingtao, Vice President and CMO of Huawei's Digital Energy Intelligent Photovoltaic Business, comprehensively interpreted the top ten trends in intelligent photovoltaics, providing forward-looking support for the high-quality development of the photovoltaic industry and released a heavyweight white paper.
According to the International Renewable Energy Agency's forecast, the installed capacity of photovoltaics will reach 5200GW by 2030 and 14000GW by 2050, with a renewable energy proportion of over 90%, of which photovoltaics will become the absolute mainstay. As the proportion of new energy represented by photovoltaics continues to rise, it faces multiple challenges, such as grid connection, operation, and security. Therefore, based on long-term practice and profound insights, Huawei has proposed ten major trends in industrial development, including one core, five key characteristics, and four fundamental technologies. Huawei is willing to work with industry colleagues to promote the dual carbon goal's early achievement jointly.
Trend One: Optical Storage Becoming a Stable Power Supply
The parity of solar energy storage and grid construction technology has enabled solar energy storage systems to become stable power sources. In the next three years, it will promote photovoltaics as the main power source.
Trend Two: million level Power plant network element management
The exponential increase in power station network elements will make efficient and intelligent power generation, transmission, and distribution network scheduling a key requirement. Huawei Intelligent Photovoltaics will support the access and management of tens of millions of power station network elements based on CloudNative cloud native and real-time communication control technology, combined with the Pangu model for massive data analysis and prediction, and AI technology for intelligent energy decision-making and scheduling, achieving resource integration and collaborative scheduling of generation, storage, and distribution of massive power station network elements, and building a comprehensive smart energy network of tens of millions of power station network elements.
Trend Three: Intelligent Life Cycle
Power station management has shifted from "operation and maintenance" to "operation" throughout its entire lifecycle. Intelligence will significantly enhance the comprehensive benefits of "planning, construction, maintenance, and operation," making power station operations more efficient.
Trend Four: Full Scenario Grid Forming
Grid-forming technology has been commercialized on a large scale, rapidly expanding from large-scale ground power stations to industrial, commercial, and household use. Not only in photovoltaic scenarios but also in combination with renewable energy such as wind power and hydropower, it will become possible to promote the rapid development of new energy from supporting the power grid to enhancing the power grid and then to enhancing the overall scene of the power grid, accelerating the construction of a new type of power system.
Trend Five: Four-Dimensional Security
The safety requirements have shifted from single-dimensional "equipment safety" to four-dimensional "overall safety" to ensure the long-term stable and reliable operation of the new energy power system. "Four dimensions" refer to the security of supply, equipment, networks, and power systems. The safety of the new power system requires not only the manufacturer itself but also the joint efforts of the industry and society.
Trend Six: Cell-to-Grid Energy Storage Security
The scale application of energy storage and upgrading safety standards require energy storage to achieve security from the battery cell to the system-level power grid. By implementing precise monitoring and management of cells, battery packs, battery clusters, energy storage systems, and the power grid, we aim to create a safer, more efficient, and actively networked energy storage system to ensure the safety of cell-to-grid energy storage.
Trend Seven:MLPE&CLPE
Fine management has promoted the commercial scale of component-level power electronics and gradually moved towards energy storage systems, making MLPE&CLPE a new requirement for distributed power plants. MLPE achieves precise control of photovoltaic modules, ensuring optimal power generation at the module level, module-level monitoring, and safe shutdown. Refined management is moving towards energy storage systems, and lithium battery energy storage systems are evolving towards smaller unit management at the Pack and cell levels. Therefore, CLPE technology is proposed.
Trend Eight: High Voltage and High Reliability
High voltage continuously reduces the optical storage system's LCOE (cost per kilowatt hour), continuously improves system availability with high reliability, and achieves ultimate safety. Photovoltaic inverters will continue the trend of high-voltage, with DC exceeding 1500V and AC exceeding 1000V systems. Improve equipment reliability through the application of new materials and components. By designing a bipolar high-voltage architecture and providing system-level safety protection capabilities, the continuous and reliable operation of the photovoltaic system is ensured.
Trend Nine: High frequency and high density
The application of third-generation semiconductors and the upgrading of various dimensional technologies such as material science, heat dissipation technology, and engineering technology, combined with digital technology, continuously improve the power density of power electronic converters. It is expected that in the next three to five years, photovoltaic inverters will increase energy density by more than 30%, optimizers by more than 50%, and energy storage by more than 10%, promoting the improvement of photovoltaic system quality and efficiency.
Trend Ten: High-Quality Electricity Quality
By continuously improving the quality of electricity, we aim to promote the large-scale application of optical storage systems across the industry. In the next three to five years, global IEC standards, pan-European standards, Chinese national standards, etc., will continuously increase their requirements for power quality. The improvement of various indicators will ensure high-quality electricity quality and accelerate the development of photovoltaics as the main energy source.
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