The digital transformation of the photovoltaic industry means that the photovoltaic industry will be combined with a variety of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, drone inspection, and the Internet of Things, but the application of emerging technologies has not been smooth sailing.

With the support and guidance of the new generation of digital technology, my country’s new energy industry integrates the entire new energy industry chain, deeply integrates with digital platforms, and utilizes the latest information technology, big data, cloud computing and other digital technologies. Data is the key element. Value release is the core, and data empowerment is the main line to upgrade, transform and reengineer the digitalization of all elements in the upstream and downstream of the new energy industry chain.

In this regard, industry experts believe that in the context of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, the clean energy market represented by solar photovoltaic has attracted great attention. With the accelerated development of my country's new infrastructure and energy digitization, the future integration of photovoltaic power generation and digital economy will usher in new opportunities. Digital transformation achieves cost reduction and efficiency increase

In the development of the digital economy, whether it is an Internet company or a new generation of infrastructure construction company, the huge amount of computing required for digital transformation requires very high energy consumption. How to green the digital economy in the development process will be an important issue facing carbon neutrality.

Liu Yiyang, deputy secretary-general of the China Photovoltaic Association, stated that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the photovoltaic industry will be more deeply integrated with new generation information technologies such as the Internet, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. More companies will enjoy intelligent operations. Increase in revenue brought by the maintenance. It is estimated that by 2025, 90% of the world’s photovoltaic power plants will be fully digitized. In the future, the entire process of intelligence will make the asset management, production management, and later operation and maintenance of the entire power plant simple and efficient, and will increase labor cost savings at the same time. Early warning and anti-risk capabilities for power plant operation and maintenance.

Liu Yiyang believes that under the current pressure of grid parity, the photovoltaic industry through digital transformation to reduce costs and increase efficiency is one of the important ways to improve its competitiveness. At present, the digital transformation of major leading manufacturing companies is very fast, and the overall digitalization process can basically reach 80%. Except for the collection between individual processes, which needs to be completed manually, all production links and connections in the workshop have been basically automated.

"If the photovoltaic power station adopts the intelligent string inverter system, it can effectively reduce the construction of communication and power supply lines, reduce the communication failure rate, and increase the power generation of the system by 4%." Industry experts said that the new infrastructure is not a repetition of traditional industries and traditional models. Rather, it is responsible for "industrial structure upgrading" and "energy structure transformation". New infrastructure cannot be separated from the support of electric energy. Solar photovoltaic will well help green new infrastructure and help achieve carbon neutrality and the process of China's ecological civilization construction.

Digital strategy lacks top-level design

For the photovoltaic industry, which is under increasing pressure to reduce costs, how will it remain competitive in the future? Experts in the industry said that the main difficulties in the digitalization process of new energy companies are the lack of top-level design of the digital strategy at the industry and enterprise levels, the lack of systematic development paths, the lack of digital capabilities and talents, the high cost of digitalization, and the inability of traditional corporate organizational structures to adapt to new digital operating methods. .

It is understood that the digital transformation of the photovoltaic industry means that the photovoltaic industry will be combined with a variety of emerging technologies such as cloud computing, drone inspection, and the Internet of Things, while the application of emerging technologies is not smooth sailing.

"From the current situation of the industry, the digital transformation of the photovoltaic supply chain has not fully achieved the optimization of the entire industry chain. For example, the industry currently has shortages of photovoltaic glass, backplanes and other insufficient supply problems. In fact, the supply capacity is not It is not a problem. The reason is that a large amount of materials are piled up in warehouses and transportation, and there is a phenomenon of excess processing of semi-finished products." He Shuangquan, CEO of a solar power company in Wuxi pointed out.

Liu Yiyang believes that photovoltaic companies will also face two major difficulties in this process: First, whether the ratio of return on investment of digital equipment to labor cost savings is more economical, requires in-depth consideration by the company based on its own operating conditions; , The stability of intelligent system equipment needs to be continuously improved in the later operation and maintenance of photovoltaic power plants.

Digitalization helps PV asset trading

It is understood that at this stage, many companies are changing energy conservation and emission reduction from passive to active, and the demand for digital diagnosis is increasing. Many industry experts believe that large Internet companies have advantages in technology, platforms, and big data, but they lack professional skills and experience in application scenarios in subdivided fields.

How do large Internet companies and new infrastructure projects deal with energy consumption? Fang Bin, general manager of a solar energy Internet of Things, once publicly stated that photovoltaic power generation has gradually achieved parity on the Internet. Large computer rooms of data centers, electrical equipment of large Internet companies, roofs of office buildings, etc., if the proportion of renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic power generation, wind power generation, and energy storage can be increased, will be an effective way to help carbon neutrality . However, in this process, special attention should be paid to the consumption, capacity reserve and balance management of renewable energy power generation and main grid connection.

Fang Bin believes that the previous concept of energy saving and carbon reduction should be transformed into more use of renewable energy. "Many solar photovoltaic companies are already developing integrated solar storage and charging systems, which can be organically combined with the use of office buildings, carports, and electric vehicles by technology companies such as the Internet. Technology companies can also participate in digital platforms related to carbon neutrality. , The construction, operation, management and maintenance of Internet of Things equipment."

In addition, Zong Linghong, CEO of Shuquan Future, said that understanding the photovoltaic industry from the perspective of physical assets alone can no longer keep up with the times. Driven by digital technologies such as blockchain, the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence, the photovoltaic industry can use "digitalization of underlying assets, digitization of equity assets, and assetization of industrial data" to provide real and credible information about physical assets such as photovoltaic power plants. Digital asset mapping, and then promote the transaction, circulation and promotion of photovoltaic assets. At present, digital technology represented by blockchain is changing the energy industry, especially in the field of energy asset trading. The digital transformation of green energy photovoltaic asset transactions has become the only way to promote photovoltaic asset transactions and promote the transformation and upgrading of the energy industry.

Article information source-China Energy News