The Huawei Connect 2024 event underscores a broader commitment to supporting the global power sector’s evolution, bridging the gap between sustainability and technological advancement.
Nov 7, 2024
In Huawei Connect 2024 held in Shanghai, David Sun,Vice President of Huawei and CEO of Huawei Electric Power Digitalisation Business Unit, highlighted the current challenges facing the power industry around the world.
The event underscores a broader commitment to supporting the global power sector’s evolution, bridging the gap between sustainability and technological advancement.
He talks about sustainable technical architecture to ensure that companies around the world have the means to provide solutions for global problems. Sun outlined the need for industry solutions to improve distribution network flexibility and resilience, introducing HPLC as a key technology for secure, reliable communication networks, offering 99.9% reliability and real-time data streaming.
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At the Global Electric Power Summit, part of Huawei Connect 2024, Huawei’s Executive Director of the Board and Chairman of the ICT Infrastructure Managing Board, David Wang, highlighted the importance of digital and intelligent technologies in addressing challenges in new power systems and emphasized the need for innovation.
The company and their ecosystem partners introduced the Intelligent Distribution Solution, which aims to enhance global electric power enterprises’ productivity and digital transformation.
The “cloud-pipe-edge-pipe-device” architecture aims to reduce line loss, improve power supply reliability, enhance user experience and ensure large-scale integration and consumption of renewables. The solution addresses 400V transparency and medium voltage backhaul in distribution network communication by creating an open and sustainable communication network.
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Regarding the future of power transition and technology, Marcio Szechtman, Ex-CIGRE Technical Council Chair and Honorary Member of CIGRE, IEEE/PES Life Fellow, expresses concern about attracting young people to the electrical power industry, as many are drawn to other sectors. He believes the next generation of ‘professionals’ – rather than just engineers – will need to be more digitally focused, working with software and AI over traditional field work.
The company’s collaboration with ecosystem partnerships is crucial for innovation and sustainable solutions as well as the power industry’s ability to tackle challenges such as renewable energy integration, evolving regulations, cybersecurity threats and increased customer demand through digital transformation.