Huawei’s Commitment to Environmental Protection and Digital Power Revolutionizes the Energy Sector for Carbon Neutrality

CXOToday has engaged in an exclusive interview with Mr. Sarad Shrestha, Director – Sales, Huawei Telecommunications India Co. Pvt. Ltd

Q1. How does Huawei contribute to environmental protection and carbon neutrality?

The fight against climate change is currently one of the most important goal, globally. Reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases and fossil fuels has evolved into a critical element for businesses across segments. Taking this into consideration, Huawei’s Digital Power division has made it a priority to integrate digital and power electronics technologies, create clean power, and make energy digitalization possible in order to propel the energy revolution toward a more environmentally friendly future.

Huawei Digital Power is implementing an open ecosystem strategy that opens hardware and software and promotes multi-layer collaboration across the industry. The organization is collaborating with like-minded partners to upgrade the energy industry and facilitate an open and symbiotic digital power ecosystem that thrives on shared success. In addition to it, Huawei Digital Power aims to assist carriers in increasing efficiency and smartening facilities to construct a smart and sustainable world. Our solutions make O&M smart, simplify facility deployment, improve power reliability, improve energy efficiency, and enable ICT networks to seamlessly transition to 5G and the cloud.

Huawei also practices innovations in clean power generation, energy digitalization, electrification of transportation, green ICT power infrastructure, and integrated smart energy. For the same, we our collaborating with the digital power industry and constructing low-carbon homes, buildings, factories, campuses, villages, and cities. The transition from a low-carbon to a carbon-neutral world will be aided by this.

Q2. How is making low-carbon buildings and campuses a reality with Huawei’s integrated smart energy solution and services?

In today’s era, cities are shifting towards low carbon and are making rapid strides in this path. For the same, Huawei Digital Power is working closely with its customers and partners to build low-carbon buildings and campuses, and low-carbon cities, through top-level carbon consulting services, integration of power generation, grids, loads, and storage, as well as the Dual-carbon Co-Mind.

Huawei in its new Anto Hill campus of Huawei Digital Power in Shenzhen will have nearly zero carbon footprint that combines PV generation, energy storage, direct current distribution, and flexible electricity use. Once the campus is fully operational, it will generate approximately 1.5 million kWh of green power each year. Energy-saving technology and integrated energy management installed in it will cut annual electricity consumption and carbon emissions by 51% and 63% respectively.

The integrated smart energy solutions leverage energy infrastructure such as smart PV & storage, charging networks, smart lighting, and smart cooling to achieve optimal system performance. As per the best practices, they deliver a nearly 20% gain in energy efficiency, slash energy use costs by about 10%, and shorten the payback period by about 25%. In addition to this, Huawei has actively participated in the formulation of ultra-low-energy building standards and related policies, the company has also launched pilot projects in support of Shenzhen’s efforts to establish zones with near-zero carbon footprint.

Q3. How has Huawei accelerated the growth in digital and intelligent transformation?

Huawei started its journey as a company that specialized in communications equipment, and the company’s digital power business originally focused on powering communications equipment. However, to meet customers’ demands for integrated energy solutions and carriers’ needs for energy saving and emissions reduction, we established a Network Energy Product Line in 2011. This product line developed a range of solutions, including smart PV solutions, data center facility solutions, and site power facility solutions. As we move ahead further, this product line was renamed the Digital Power Product Line.  And since June 2021, Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. was formally established.

Huawei Digital Power covers business domains including Smart PV, Data Center Facility, Site Power Facility, DriveONE, Embedded Power, and Integrated Smart Energy. It operates 12 R&D centers across the world and holds more than 1,600 patents (by the end of 2021). With approximately 6,000 employees, 60% of whom are focused on R&D, Huawei Digital Power serves one third of the world’s population across more than 170 countries and regions.

Additionally, by integrating digital and power electronics technologies, we have also launched five smart PV & storage solutions that address three application scenarios – power generation, energy storage, and energy consumption. These five solutions are – Smart PV&ESS Generator, Smart String Energy Storage System, C&I Smart PV Solution, Residential Smart PV Solution, and Smart Micro-grid Solution.

Q4. How will Huawei change the energy sector and its storage aspect with digital technologies?

As per World Economic Forum, by 2030, ICT is expected to support other industries in cutting carbon emissions by 12.1 billion tons. And a good chunk of it is in the energy sector. Huawei Digital Power integrates and innovates on digital, power electronics, and heat technologies to manage watts with bits and help customers conserve energy and cut emissions. By the end of 2021, Huawei Digital Power had helped customers generate 482.9 billion kWh of green power and save about 14.2 billion kWh of electricity. These efforts have resulted in a reduction of nearly 230 million tons in CO2 emissions, which is equivalent to planting 320 million trees.

Further, Huawei is taking the following steps to create a booming digital power ecosystem:

• Opening up hardware: As part of our greater Inside strategy, we provide core hardware products and modules to our partners in multiple ways, like – original design manufacturers (ODMs), secondary development, and integration. We also enable partners to achieve business success and advance the energy industries in their regions.
• Opening up software: We build an open, secure, and dependable Digi Power Cloud, which enables more industry partners to develop more energy applications and implement integrated smart energy management in different scenarios.

Multi-level collaboration across the industry: We actively participate in industry organizations to develop industry standards and alliance ecosystems, and work with global standards organizations, institutions, and think tanks to promote the formulation and implementation of relevant standards and industry policies. This will drive the healthy development of the digital power industry