Under the leadership of Changyuan Technology Group, CYG ET made a remarkable appearance at the 24th China Hi-Tech Fair - Global Clean Energy Technological Innovation Expo on November 15-17. At the fair, Mr. Guo Weiming, Deputy General Manager of CYG ET, accepted a high-end interview of the energy sector on behalf of Changyuan Technology Group. The interview focused on low carbon and
smart innovation.
Q1:
What new products and technologies do you bring to us at the fair?
CYG SUNRI has specialized in automation of power systems. The newly established new energy segment is mainly engaged in PV, wind power, storage, charging, distribution and transportation, specifically involving the construction of charging networks and energy storage systems, the construction, operation and maintenance and whole life-cycle management of PV stations. We have realized closed loop and preparation for source-network-load business.
We bring three flagship products to the fair:
① High-power liquid-cooled DC charger: For all EV owners, the common pain point is how to charge their cars faster and make their cars run farther.
② Eco Explorer SaaS system: After the goal of carbon dioxide peaking and carbon neutrality was proposed, the carbon business in our new energy segment has been very important to us. In this regard, we also bring the Eco Explorer SaaS system. It provides industrial and commercial customer with a full range of solutions, such as carbon emission calculation, carbon diagnosis, and carbon neutrality.
③ Integration platform for smart energy management: The platform enables comprehensive management of the primary and secondary sources in parks. The sources are visible and controllable.
Q2:
In the process of continuous development of energy storage technologies, what can be done to maintain your competitive advantages in the industry? How do you control the rhythms of R&D and mass production?
Guo Weiming: The development of the energy storage segment actually centers on the development of battery technologies. Our mission is to better serve loads and sources with batteries. We can complete the distribution and storage of source PV stations and wind farms, large-scale power grids, end users in parks, and residents’ microgrids.
Our development centers on the following aspects: Firstly, with the development of battery technologies, how can we make energy storage systems safer, more reliable and more efficient? It involves several aspects, one of which is the optimal battery control, that is, controllable and safe battery management throughout the life cycle; Secondly, we need make all information traceable. Our system platform can work for the purpose. It is necessary to make the data of the whole life cycle of each battery controllable; Thirdly, we need adapt our operation mode to the market environment. Because of the development and changes of the electricity market, new products emerge in electricity market in every province and region every year. Our smart platform will constantly adjust the energy storage operation mode according to the changes of policies, so as to make energy storage systems more economical and reliable.
Q3:
What are the advantages of CYG’s business layout in the PV industry?
Guo Weiming: We focus on two ends in the PV industry. As CYG ET and CYG SUNRI started from control technologies of power grids, we center on two major PV application scenarios. The first is large-scale centralized PV stations. From Datong Forerunner Project, the first PV Forerunner project in China, we provide a complete set of power grid protection strategies, and operation and maintenance strategies for the 1GW power station. So we focus on large-scale PV power stations, maybe we will provide products and services for power stations of 1GW and 10GW in the next few years. Perhaps one of our missions is to combine the operation of power stations with the power control of power grids more closely. Many people say that wind power and PV are intermittent energy. The most important thing is to ensure more stable operation. In this regard, we can fully integrated our technologies, such as our power control technologies and energy storage technologies. We hope that large centralized PV power stations that apply our solutions have adjustable and controllable power, and become more user-friendly sources of power supply.
CYG started the business for the scenario of distributed stations as early as in 2012. Our view is that distributed energy systems may be a key to enabling large and medium-sized cities to be self-supporting in terms of energy. Because cities have a huge amount of roofs, we can build clean energy systems on roofs to partly meet the demand for energy, and solve the problem of carbon emissions in cities. As I just said, we started from control technologies of power grids. Why do we have greater advantages in distributed PV systems? We have our own resource integration systems, we can automatically generate distributed PV construction, standardized drawings, inclination angles and other technical details. Through a lot of engineering practice, we have gotten to know what grid-connection technology facilitate consumption of PV power by buildings in different construction scenarios. We can fully combine the needs of buildings and customers to ensure easier consumption of PV power by cities. In addition, the supply of PV power is nothing unusual for a building. We will fully explore controllable energy sources in buildings. For example, we can make air conditioners, pumps, valves, elevators and lights controllable. We can turn a building into an organic energy ecosystem and maximize its economic benefits.
Q4:
Guided by the goal of "carbon dioxide peaking and carbon neutrality", what is the development direction of your company? What are the development opportunities for your company?
Guo Weiming: Carbon dioxide peaking and carbon neutrality can be a strong motivation for those in the industry. We thought that electricity is a kind of readily available energy. However, due to diversified conflicts, geopolitical conflicts and various situations, energy shortage will be very serious. Energy use will produce carbon footprints, so we need to solve the problem of carbon dioxide peaking and carbon neutrality through the use of clean energy and better energy conservation and production. In terms of energy conservation, we need more PV stations, more wind farms and clean energy stations. This may provide us with more scenarios of construction and technology use; In terms of energy production, our mission is to reduce energy consumption in end user scenario. For example, in a park system, water, electricity and gas systems are independent of each other. With our energy efficiency management platform and comprehensive energy system, we can turn the buildings and park into a completely controllable energy network, and we can get to know its basic information. After it becomes an adjustable and controllable system, we can reduce energy consumption.
For all products, carbon is actually very close to us. Perhaps energy is necessary for the production of any products. Once energy is used, carbon will be produced definitely. The carbon emission calculation function provided by our Eco Explorer SaaS system enable enterprises to get to know their carbon consumption and measures for carbon control. We will provide each product with a carbon label, so users can get to know how much carbon a product produces in the production process, and how to limit carbon in the annual plan. In this regard, we believe that carbon dioxide peaking and carbon neutrality provides more technical directions for control and strategies, and we can make full use of control technologies and carbon methodologies for various products and scenarios. We can get to know our carbon emissions, provide carbon reduction schemes and means for effective governance, and finally realize “carbon dioxide peaking" and "carbon neutrality”. This is a closed loop.