With the deepening of the process of carbon neutrality, China’s energy structure is transforming from traditional oil and coal to new energy, and dual carbon practice is accelerating into thousands of industries. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Party proposed that we should actively and steadily promote carbon peak and carbon neutrality, further promote the energy revolution, and accelerate the planning and construction of new energy systems, including new power systems. In June 2023, the National Energy Administration issued the “Blue Book on the Development of New Power Systems”, which provides more clear guidance for accelerating the construction of new power systems. Driven by the impact of policies and the continued expansion of consumption demand on the user side, more renewable energy is being incorporated into the grid, and enhancing the interactivity of the energy network has become the only way to achieve the goal of decarbonization.

With the access of more new energy and the transformation of the existing energy system, the one-way energy flow of the traditional energy system has begun to change to the multi-energy integration of new energy and the complementary production and consumption, and users have gradually changed from traditional energy consumption to the integration of energy production and consumption, which has brought more and more common distributed new energy construction, high volatility and random new energy power generation, and increasing energy costs. How to ensure the maximum use of local new energy? How to ensure the safety and reliability of the power supply system? How to achieve more economical energy costs? All these problems need to be solved in the construction of new power system.

At this point, the “micro net” is just in time. As an integrated energy solution covering local new energy storage, load equipment and energy management system, microgrid can not only integrate distributed energy, provide flexible support for the grid, but also help optimize the application of distributed energy. The advantages of an ideal microgrid are obvious: photovoltaic, wind and energy storage facilities can be connected to the grid through distributed energy construction; Flexible load is realized based on flexible control of HVAC, lighting, charging pile and other equipment; It supports dynamic access of various types of microgrids, such as grid-connected, isolated island, and off-grid. And it can conduct comprehensive energy management from multiple dimensions such as consumption charging, equipment status, forecast scheduling, etc. Finally, it helps users to participate in the energy and carbon trading market in a flexible manner. The transformation of traditional energy consumption to the integration of production and consumption will benefit end-users within the network, and allow users to change from energy “consumers” to “producers and consumers”.

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The four core values of intelligent real-time distributed energy management enable the construction of a new power system

Schneider Electric believes that the essence of the process of building a new power system is the process of adapting to the large-scale access of new energy sources. As the key to promote energy transformation, the construction of new power systems not only requires profound professional and practical accumulation, but also requires cutting-edge digital technology support. To this end, Schneider Electric has introduced a Microgrid solution, with the EcoStruxure Microgrid Advisor Microgrid Energy Advisor (EMA) as the core, which enables control instructions and data transmission through edge control and interconnecting devices. It can meet the various deployment requirements of mains access, distributed generation equipment and energy consumption equipment. EMA uses unique AI-based optimization control algorithms and enhanced iterative optimization capabilities to help companies make full use of local energy resources to strengthen their operations and business capabilities. Through the collection and analysis of real-time data to monitor the operation of each equipment and energy efficiency, and according to real-time electricity prices, weather data and electricity consumption, timely adjust the allocation of resources, so that the factory and the park to achieve a perfect balance between new energy power generation, power storage, load power demand. Bring considerable economic benefits to users in all dimensions:

Economic optimization: greatly optimize the cost of energy use and effectively reduce the expansion investment of users, helping users to obtain energy benefits in the open power trading market;
Clean energy: improve users’ consumption level of new energy, optimize carbon footprint, and help build zero-carbon demonstration scenarios;
Flexible power supply: to provide safe, high-quality, stable and reliable electric energy, reduce the load of the transformer;
Flexible mode to meet the needs of the whole life cycle: according to the location of different construction stages, provide users with hardware adaptation deployment, software management collaboration and flexible comprehensive energy services for microgrid construction, to meet the needs of enterprises in the whole life cycle from planning and design to operation and maintenance.
Go deep into the front end of the industry to help enterprises achieve zero carbon vision

Schneider Electric has both soft and hard, from control to hardware complete solution capabilities and complete service system of production line layout, through the efficient management of grid-connected assets and distributed energy, can help various industries to establish an efficient, resilient and sustainable smart energy system. At present, Schneider Electric has deployed more than 800 microgrid solutions around the world, covering many fields including industry and commerce, charging stations, oil and gas chemical industry, zero-carbon parks, and so on, to accurately meet the differentiated demands of different users.