Even the most brain burning process industry can save 7%, using domestic software to calculate carbon footprint? Shanghai's "Digital Greening" Launch with Carbon Footprint | Domestic Software | Carbon Neutrality | Shanghai Carbon Expo | Dual Carbon
The Lin Qingxuan Songjiang Carbon Neutrality Research and Intelligent Manufacturing Base, which is under construction, explains what "putting in a lot of effort" is - replacing the vast majority of traditional power generation with distributed photovoltaics and wind power to reduce carbon emissions; Based on the digital energy efficiency platform, calculate the best carbon reduction plan in production; For carbon emissions that cannot be completely eliminated, 50 million camellia trees will be planted in various regions to offset carbon emissions.
The first Shanghai International Carbon Neutrality Expo is currently underway. At the "Green and Low Carbon Industry Development Forum" jointly organized by the Municipal Energy Efficiency Center, the Municipal Energy Conservation Association, and the Shanghai Green and Low Carbon Industry Alliance, Zhang Hongtao, Deputy Director of the Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, introduced that since the 14th Five Year Plan period, the energy consumption per unit of added value in Shanghai's industrial sector has cumulatively decreased by 13.8%. A large number of "digital greening" exploration practices have emerged on the forum, giving the manufacturing industry confidence: there is great hope for achieving the dual carbon goals as scheduled.
Currently, the approaching carbon footprint is becoming a new technological barrier to international trade. Starting from July 2024, only rechargeable industrial and electric vehicle batteries with established carbon footprint declarations can enter the EU market. China is also actively promoting carbon footprint certification, but carbon verification is very professional and complex, and enterprises are very worried. On the forum, Shanghai Yichan Technology Co., Ltd. shared a domestically produced industrial software called "Building Block LCA Cloud". Users can calculate their carbon footprint as easily as building blocks, and the software has been included in the EU recommended directory list. This means that all products calculated by the software for carbon emissions do not need to be retested by overseas third-party organizations. As a result, Chinese enterprises have seized the power to formulate international rules for green trade.
Compared to carbon footprint accounting, comprehensive energy management is equally brain burning. For example, in parks that heavily rely on energy management, distributed wind power, distributed photovoltaics, charging piles, swapping stations, energy storage facilities, and traditional power facilities may coexist in the future. It is not easy to connect these highly fragmented and "language barrier" devices to an industrial Internet platform and realize the coordination of power generation side, power consumption side and power grid side, which can not only cope with intermittent fluctuations of wind power photovoltaic power generation, but also make energy storage prediction and achieve controlled load. But digitization and AI algorithms are the solutions. Xing Ge, General Manager of Vision Smart's zero carbon business development, introduced that Envos's industrial Internet platform has access to 560 GW of new energy assets worldwide, equivalent to the average power load of 20 Shanghai. Based on EnOS, the zero carbon industrial park model of Vision is accelerating its replication both domestically and internationally, such as helping Nike China build its first wind and solar integrated zero carbon smart logistics park, and helping Bollinger Ingelheim and Saint Gobain in France build leading factories for carbon neutrality in Asia.
Siemens is also competing in the green and low-carbon track, and has signed a cooperation agreement with German testing agency DEKRA at the Shanghai International Carbon Expo. The two sides will work closely together in the fields of smart energy carbon management, energy auditing, carbon verification and certification, and create digital and zero carbon benchmark projects in the fields of architecture, parks, and industry. It is reported that with the empowerment of Siemens' end-to-end digital technology, the overall carbon emissions of the park can be reduced by 25%.
At the beginning of this year, the implementation of the new electricity reform policy further widened the price difference between peak and valley electricity, highlighting the economic benefits of energy storage. Therefore, this year is also known as the first year of the outbreak of user side energy storage. Weijing Energy Storage, headquartered in Shanghai, is a high-tech energy storage battery intelligent manufacturing enterprise with zinc based flow batteries as its core. It has established multiple gigawatt level production bases in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Jiangxi and other places. At the Carbon Expo, it was also awarded a comprehensive financial support of 8 billion yuan by the Shanghai Branch of Bank of China.
It is reported that since the beginning of this year, the demand for user side energy storage in industries such as cement, pharmaceuticals, and automobiles has shown explosive growth. However, at the same time, Fu Yuan, Chairman of Shanghai Youye Information Technology, sighed that China has refined 56% of the world's steel, and coke production accounts for nearly 70% of the world's total. For high energy consumption and high emissions process industries, "energy conservation is the biggest way to reduce carbon emissions.". Youye utilizes digital twin technology to dynamically calculate and model various high concurrency data in the process industry in real-time. In an ultra complex and massive system, it seems like there is "Gaode Navigation". "Even in the best hydropower plants and cigarette factories in China, we can achieve nearly 7% energy savings," said Fu Yuan.
Green and low-carbon is one of the four new tracks in Shanghai. According to the plan, by 2025, the scale of Shanghai's green and low-carbon industry will exceed 500 billion yuan. Ni Qing, Managing Partner of China's ESG Sustainable Development Market at PwC, told reporters that he is pleased to see that the green and low-carbon path of Shanghai's manufacturing industry is not something that individual enterprises can sing on their own, but rather a demonstration driven by chain owners, attracting upstream and downstream enterprises to jointly save energy and reduce carbon emissions. "Companies such as Baowu Group and Yanfeng Automobile have been exploring and practicing for four to five years, actively building an open ecosystem, attracting tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of upstream and downstream businesses to achieve value chain synergy. Some companies in Shanghai are particularly cutting-edge in their local green and low-carbon transformation, and can even compete with international leading enterprises on the same stage."
