Caijing Annual Dialogue | H3C Li Li: Driven by data, find new ways to save energy and reduce carbon emissions

On November 8-9, the Caijing Annual Dialogue 2022 with the theme of "New All Things Reborn, Talking about the Peak" was successfully concluded in Beijing. As a leader in digital solutions, Li Li, Vice President of H3C Group and President of the Solutions Department of Tsinghua Unigroup, was invited to attend the roundtable dialogue on the theme of " Leap Forward into Low-Carbon Economy after the End of Population and Real Estate Dividends" . He discussed the forward-looking insights into the "dual carbon" strategy with Qiu Baoxing, Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and Chairman of the China Urban Science Research Association, and Cao Yuanzheng, Chairman of BOC International Research Company and Vice President of the China Macroeconomics Society, and shared the practical experience of H3C's zero-carbon smart park solution in promoting the sustainable development of various parks.

Challenges and opportunities coexist, and the "dual carbon" strategy promotes the iteration of the park

In 2022, China's economic development is facing multiple challenges such as population structure, industrial transformation, and international situation. Traditional economic engines that drive growth, such as real estate, industry, and traditional infrastructure, need new ideas and reconstruction. In addition to the digital economy, the low-carbon economy has undoubtedly become the next new investment peak and new outlet, which will continue to drive the upgrading of the entire industrial chain on the supply side and the growth of the consumer market on the demand side. The value of the "dual carbon" strategy is self-evident, and the park, as the basic unit for urban and industrial development, is increasingly becoming an important carrier for the implementation of the "dual carbon" strategy. How to efficiently promote energy conservation and carbon reduction has become a core proposition related to development benefits.

Qiu Baoxing believes that "dual carbon" is a long-term strategy. From buildings to industrial parks, China should emphasize its ability to reduce carbon emissions. Reducing carbon emissions through changes in production and lifestyle is a very important part of practicing "dual carbon". Qiu Baoxing said that by taking the voluntary carbon reduction market and the quota carbon market as two levels, and adding the carbon reduction efficiency carbon market, through technological innovation or comprehensive carbon reduction in industrial parks, additional benefits can be obtained and the transformation of industrial parks can be driven.

Li Li mentioned that while technological innovation improves energy efficiency for enterprises, it is also of great significance for reducing carbon emissions. After the national "dual carbon" strategy was introduced, H3C Group conducted in-depth research and thinking on the issue of "how to use digitalization to empower the 'dual carbon' strategy and promote the implementation of digital solutions for reducing carbon emissions." The realization of the "dual carbon" goal involves various fields of society and industry. H3C mainly starts with industrial parks with greater influence. According to rough estimates, there are more than 15,000 industrial parks of all levels and types in China, and more than 25,000 industrial parks. The contribution of industrial parks to the entire economy and society exceeds 30%, but industrial energy consumption accounts for more than 60% of China's total energy consumption. At the same time, carbon emissions from industrial parks account for more than 30% of the country. Although industrial parks have made great contributions to the economy, they are also major carbon emitters. How to implement energy-saving and carbon-reduction solutions in the park is of great significance to the achievement of the entire "dual carbon" strategy.

Comprehensively promoting the construction of zero-carbon smart parks is, on the one hand, an objective requirement for high-quality development, and on the other hand, an active choice for policy and industrial reform. Cao Yuanzheng believes that from 2020 to 2050, China needs to invest more than 3 billion yuan each year. The "dual carbon" strategy is the basic framework for China's medium- and long-term development. If China's "dual carbon" strategy can be truly realized and developed sustainably, it will also be of great significance to the world.

Data-driven innovation, a new engine for high-quality development

Technological innovation not only improves production efficiency for enterprises, but also has important significance for reducing carbon emissions. When industrial development faces the continuous rise of "carbon costs", it is worth considering how to use digital means to overcome challenges and seize opportunities in the low-carbon era.

In order to enable the park to implement the mission of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality" while promoting digital transformation, H3C took the lead in the industry to propose the concept of "zero-carbon smart park" and created a data-driven zero-carbon smart park solution. The "1+4" top-level design is adopted in the entire solution. "1" is the zero-carbon smart operating system, which can be regarded as a zero-carbon data middle platform; "4" is 4 governance frameworks - "source, exploration, management, and service". "Source" starts with clean energy substitution, and the specific implementation plan includes the deployment of photovoltaic, energy storage, wind power and other facilities; "Exploration" is detection, that is, carbon emission detection in the park, so as to accumulate data for the future enterprises to fully implement the concepts of "carbon peak" and "carbon neutrality"; "Management" is management, and energy conservation and emission reduction are achieved through comprehensive energy consumption management, including systematic control of transportation, lighting, air conditioning, elevators, and even domestic waste treatment; "Service" is service. After accumulating a large amount of new energy data, carbon data and other park data, it will provide carbon data services for the park, including data exchange with the National Carbon Trading Center in the future, to promote the park to achieve zero-carbon goals from many aspects. According to data feedback from implementation cases, many parks can save more than 30% of energy costs after implementing the plan.

At present, H3C Group has created many zero-carbon smart park models. For example, a green photovoltaic storage system was built in the smart factory of Tsinghua Unigroup, so that the park's microgrid supports distributed photovoltaics, string energy storage and other innovations; at the same time, based on the zero-carbon smart operating system, a factory "carbon assets" model was built to provide dual-carbon deduction and analysis for the park, helping the factory reduce annual carbon emissions by nearly 1,000 tons.

In the future, with the deep integration of park construction and the "dual carbon" strategy, zero-carbon smart parks will reshape the pattern of high-quality urban development by helping industries to transform and upgrade. As a leader in digital solutions, H3C Group will continue to adhere to the "cloud-intelligence native" strategy, using data to help parks improve quality and efficiency while fulfilling their social responsibilities of energy conservation, emission reduction and green development. Empowering various parks with "zero-carbon + smart" transformation with technologies and solutions that better meet scenario needs will make future parks more confident in implementing the "dual carbon" strategy and promote high-quality social and economic development with data value.