As the core unit of industrial agglomeration and development, the park has become the most important and extensive spatial carrier for the high-quality development of China’s economy, and has also become the main force for implementing the dual-carbon goal. How can the park walk out of a road of green, low-carbon and high-quality development? During the Service Trade Fair 2022, Schneider Electric, an expert in digital transformation in the field of global energy management and automation, together with Alibaba Cloud, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and the International Economic and Technological Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, jointly released the report “Digitalization and Carbon Neutrality (Park Part)”, based on a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities of carbon reduction in the park. With digitalization as an important starting point for the implementation of the dual-carbon goal of the park, we will carry out in-depth cooperation based on the advantages of all parties, and rely on the carbon neutral service platform to provide the park and the enterprises in the park with an overall carbon management solution for the whole process from consultation to implementation, from supervision to certification, so as to enable comprehensive carbon reduction.

Challenges and opportunities coexist, digital, carbon neutral enabling parks and enterprises to develop in high quality

Data show that there are more than 10,000 industrial parks in China, contributing more than 50% of the national industrial economic output value. However, behind the rapid development of the park is another set of figures, the energy consumption of the industrial park accounts for about 69% of the total energy consumption of the whole society, and the carbon emissions account for about 31% of the total emissions of the country. Therefore, the park has become an important target for carbon control and carbon reduction.

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In 2021, The State Council issued the Action Plan for Carbon Peaking before 2030, which clearly proposed the construction of green and low-carbon parks, and selected 100 representative cities and parks to carry out pilot projects for carbon peaking. In 2022, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the Notice on Promoting the Work Related to Carbon Peaking and carbon Neutrality in National Ecological Industry Demonstration Zones, which put forward higher requirements for the effective implementation of the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality work programs and implementation paths in the parks. From the green and low-carbon development model that takes into account dual carbon and economic development to the digital transformation of industrial parks, it is not difficult to find that the development of the park has always been firmly around the two themes of “digitalization” and “carbon neutrality”.
• Digitalization is a new engine for the high-quality development of the park, which can not only improve the intelligent level of the park’s infrastructure and realize the “visible, manageable and usable” of the park, but also deeply integrate the operation and management links of the park’s enterprises and the manufacturing process to promote the low-carbon and lean management of the whole process and the whole life cycle. At the same time, with the help of the digital energy management platform, the access, management and comprehensive utilization of traditional fossil energy and clean energy can be efficiently realized, helping to improve the level of clean and low-carbon energy in the park;
• Carbon neutrality is the development direction and long-term goal of the park. To achieve peak carbon neutrality is a broad and profound economic and social systemic change. The park and the enterprises in the park need to proceed from the actual situation, find out the family background, strengthen the top-level design, and build a digital management platform to achieve the management process reengineering of the whole industrial chain of the park. Achieve energy saving, land saving, water saving, material reduction, pollution reduction, carbon reduction coordination.