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SHENZHEN, China, July 8, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Today marked the Seventh Huawei Global Power Summit themed "Bits Drive Watts,

Building a Fully Connected Smart Grid". Held online, the summit invited global

customers, partners, industry experts, and thought leaders in the electric

power industry to discuss the impact and response to this year's pandemic, and

political and economic uncertainties. The electric power market continues to

represent huge potential while the industry needs to build reliable,

cost-effective, efficient, and green power grids with a more efficient and

reasonable energy supply.

Seize the Opportunity to Transform the Electric Power Industry

Electric power companies around the world are looking to improve quality and

efficiency by deploying data centers and reconstructing management platforms.

They aim to provide more reliable, efficient, and green energy while ensuring

grid security, and offer more value-added services through the energy Internet

to drive social development. However, conventional operational models and

technologies fail to support this transformation. As such, the global electric

power industry needs to consider how to adapt to new trends; how can grids

detect security issues in real time and respond quickly; how can we make better

use of clean energy and reduce carbon emissions? How can energy networks match

the rapidly expanding charging pile network and achieve efficient management?

To change agents, challenges mean opportunities. "Huawei helps customers cope

with these industry challenges and seize future opportunities through digital

transformation," said David Sun, Vice President of Huawei Enterprise BG and

President of the Global Energy Business Unit.

Huawei seamlessly integrates 5G, IoT, optical, IP, cloud, big data, and AI

technologies into power systems. Together with partners, Huawei has launched

smart service solutions, such as AI-powered grid inspection and distribution

IoT, covering power generation, transmission, transformation, distribution, and

consumption. These enable comprehensive sensing, interconnection, and service

intelligence of various power terminals.

Mr. Sun also noted that "Huawei looks forward to sharing the digital

transformation experience of China's electric power and other industries with

more customers, drive watts with bits, and build smart grids to help global

electric power companies accelerate development."

New ICT Empowers Smart Grids

An increasing number of electric power companies identify their digital

transformation strategies as their priority. At the summit, Huawei and industry

leaders illustrated the importance of 5G, AI, big data, and cloud computing for

this process.

For example, China Southern Power Grid (CSG) finds that power distribution

networks and users require power grid communication that features wide

connectivity, high bandwidth, low latency, high reliability, and fast deployment.

These features ensure intelligent power distribution and metering, and facilitate

the development of smart home and Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In response,

Huawei's advanced 5G slicing technology enables end-to-end communication of

smart grids, ensuring secure and reliable power distribution networks as well as

improved efficiency.

CSG has summarized 53 typical service scenarios covering power generation,

transmission, distribution, transformation, consumption, and integrated

services, according to Yang Junquan, Deputy General Manager of CSG Power

Dispatch and Control Center. He also expects more 5G applications to emerge in

the near future.

HUAWEI CLOUD and data platform provide mass data storage and computing

capabilities. Together, they integrate data assets from multiple systems of a

power grid company into one platform. Through high-speed data processing and

sharing, the platform helps complete various challenging tasks.

For example, Qinghai Province in China aims to achieve 100% green energy

consumption and supply in the long term. Together with Huawei, the province has

leveraged cloud computing to construct a new energy data center powered by AI

and big data capabilities. Now, the provincial electric power company can

predict the renewable energy yield simply based on the weather forecast. With

multi-energy compensation, the total power output to access the grid will be

more stable. By implementing these high-tech strategies, in 2019, Qinghai

maintained 100% green energy generation for 15 consecutive days. In this case,

clean energy consumption has been supported through digital and smart means.

New ICT can also improve the O&M efficiency of electric power companies. The

State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) worked with Huawei to build a digital

platform, IoT platform, and cloud, which reduces the time it takes to collect

and store data from four hours to 30 minutes for its Henan branch.

Huawei embeds AI modules into cameras and drones, enabling the O&M team to

remotely monitor power transmission lines and detect faults. Thanks to this,

the Shenzhen Power Supply Bureau reduced its grid inspection time from 20 days

to 2 hours and the time to capture images from hours to minutes. It has also

achieved over 90% image analysis accuracy.

Huawei will centrally deploy and remotely manage millions of EVs and charging

piles through the cloud, improve charging efficiency and battery lifespan

management through AI-powered data analysis, and increase management efficiency

using 5G high-speed networks.

Providing digital services by leveraging abundant fiber and site resources and

innovative ICT solutions has become one of the major digital transformation

trends for global electric power companies.

Huawei has worked with over 190 electric power companies worldwide, including

10 of the industry's top 20, to implement digital transformation. Huawei's

solutions are widely used by electric power companies such as the Saudi

Electricity Company, Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation, Provincial

Electricity Authority of Thailand, SGCC, and CSG. For more information about

Huawei Global Power Summit, please visit

https://e.huawei.com/topic/global-power-summit-2020/en 

SOURCE: Huawei