PV will become the main energy source 2024 Smart PV Top 10 Trends Released

Cao Yali, China Industry News

In 2023. carbon neutrality presses the accelerator button. Global photovoltaic installed capacity of more than 400GW, energy storage of more than 100GWh, light storage market continues to grow rapidly. Ground power station in China to expand to the watershed plateau, sand and desert, agricultural light and other scenes, space multiplier; industrial and commercial, household PV in Europe, the United States and other markets based on accelerating the development of the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Africa and other markets, into the thousands of rows and industries, thousands of households. Energy storage has also become a key support for the development of new energy, and the integration of optical storage has accelerated the development of PV from ‘supplementary power’ to ‘main power’.

On 24 January, Huawei held the 2024 Smart PV Top Ten Trends Conference with the theme of ‘Continuous Innovation, Quality Winning in the Future, and Accelerating PV to Become the Main Energy Source’. At the conference, Hao Yingtao, Vice President and CMO of Huawei's Digital Energy Intelligent PV Business, comprehensively explained the top ten trends of intelligent PV, provided forward-looking support for the high-quality development of the PV industry, and released an important white paper.

Hao Yingtao, Vice President and CMO of Huawei Digital Energy's Smart PV Business, explains the top ten trends of smart PV.

According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the installed capacity of PV will reach 5.200GW in 2030 and 14.000GW in 2050. with the proportion of renewable energy reaching more than 90 per cent, with PV becoming the absolute mainstay, said Hao Yingtao. As the proportion of new energy represented by PV continues to rise, it faces multiple challenges in terms of grid connection, operation, and security. As a result, Huawei has put forward ten major trends in industrial development based on its long-term practice and deep insights, including a major core, five key features, and four root technologies.

Trend 1: Optical Storage Becomes a Stable Power Source

Optical storage parity and grid-configuration technologies have made it possible for optical storage systems to become a stable power source, and will drive PV to become the main source of electricity in the next three years.

Trend two ten million power station network element management

With an exponential increase in the number of power plant network elements, efficient and intelligent scheduling of power generation, transmission, distribution, and use in a single network will become a key requirement. Huawei Intelligent PV will support the access and management of ten million power station network elements based on CloudNative and real-time communication and control technologies, combine with the Pangu large model for massive data analysis and prediction, and support AI technology for intelligent energy decision scheduling, so as to realise the resource integration and collaborative scheduling of massive power station network elements for power generation, storage, and distribution, and to build a comprehensive intelligent energy network of ten million power station network elements.

Trend 3: Intelligent life cycle

Power station management from ‘operation and maintenance’ to the whole life cycle ‘operation’, intelligence will significantly improve the comprehensive benefits of ‘planning, construction, maintenance and operation’, so that the power station operation is more efficient.

Trend 4 Grid Forming

Grid Forming technology has been commercially available on a large scale, expanding rapidly from large-scale ground power stations to industrial, commercial and household use, and not only in the photovoltaic scenario, but also in the combination of renewable energy sources such as wind power and hydropower, which will make it possible to promote new energy sources from supporting the grid to enhancing the grid, and then to the whole scenario of enhancing the grid to accelerate the construction of a new type of electric power system.

Trend five four-dimensional security