How to use AI to create a new era of smart energy? GoodWe is making energy 'humane'!

Perhaps the label of "Top Ten Inverter Companies in the World" is too conspicuous, and many people have not noticed that the smart energy business of GoodWe (SH: 688390) has become booming.

GoodWe will start planning the smart energy field in 2021 and will launch version 1.0 of the GoodWe Smart Energy WE platform to the outside world in 2022. Today, the WE platform has covered more than 10 provinces across the country. As of March, it has been connected to more than 900 power stations, generating a total of 72 million kWh of green electricity and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by more than 70,000 tons. It has achieved remarkable results.

In this regard, Dr. Dai Chensong, deputy general manager of GoodWe Smart Energy Business Department, told Huaxia Energy Network (public account hxny3060): "The positioning of the WE platform has always been to transcend the equipment level and look at problems from the perspective of the 'network'. At the same time, the WE platform mainly serves investors and property owners. These two points make the WE platform have a large enough coverage and strong enough pertinence to solve many pain points of energy management, so it has been opened in a short period of time. market."

GoodWe grandly released the WE Platform 2.0 Asset Management Center at the Shanghai SNEC exhibition in 2023. Since the market has already recognized version 1.0, GoodWe has higher expectations for version 2.0.

When talking about the progress of the WE platform, Dai Chensong used the simplest words, but expressed a meaning that is imaginative and even passionate - the WE platform version 2.0 has begun to "understand human nature". This will be the most practical application case of the currently popular artificial intelligence technology in the field of new energy.

Hardware Craftsman’s Software Dream

In the photovoltaic and energy storage industries, GoodWe has a high "status" in the minds of practitioners.

In 2019, Goodwe ranked 11th in the global photovoltaic inverter market in terms of shipment volume, and ranked first in the world in energy storage inverter market share; from 2020 to 2021, Goodwe photovoltaic inverter market share The inverter market shipments have climbed from ninth to fourth in the world; according to the energy storage industry chain data ranking released by the Energy Storage Leaders Alliance (EESA), in 2022, global energy storage low-power PCS (below 30kW) shipments In the ranking, Goodwe topped the list, ranking first in the world.

As an inverter manufacturer established in 2010, Goodwe has become the leading inverter supplier in the global photovoltaic and energy storage industry in twelve years. This kind of development speed is amazing. GoodWe welcomes the future, creates a new era of smart energy, and leads the development in the next twelve years with forward-looking vision and strategic planning.

Customers have a high degree of recognition of Goodwe hardware products. ". But in our eyes, these products are like pearls, with greater value space, so we thought, if we can use the thread of smart energy to thread pearls into a necklace, then Goode We will transform from a mere equipment supplier to a service provider that can provide overall solutions for the energy market, which is undoubtedly an 'enhancement' of itself." Dai Chensong said to China Energy Network (public account hxny3060).

In 2021, following this concept, GoodWe established the Smart Energy Division and began to develop the smart energy management WE platform.

When a hardware manufacturer starts to make software, it feels like a cross-border development. It is only natural for GoodWe to develop a smart energy management platform. It can even be said that it has unique advantages and it is a natural progression.

Because any inverter company that can stand out and gain recognition in the global market must take into account strong software and hardware development capabilities, and GoodWe naturally does the same. At the same time, the concept of smart energy is different from smart photovoltaics. It is a higher-dimensional and more complex thing. The smart energy system must not only operate and maintain new energy power plants, but also be based on the "network" On the one hand, providing users with more advanced functions requires research and analysis of massive data to achieve this. Leading inverter manufacturers have naturally large amounts of project data to study.

Eight years ago, GoodWe developed the SEMS system and promoted its application globally. The system is an intelligent monitoring and operation and maintenance platform for photovoltaic power stations based on Internet of Things technology. It has many functions such as data monitoring, data analysis, report statistics, and fault alarms. Today, the number of devices connected to the SEMS system has exceeded 1.5 million, and massive amounts of data have been accumulated, so we have abundant resources to develop advanced functions to serve the smart energy level. "Dai Chensong said.

"At the same time, GoodWe began to study concepts such as microgrids, photovoltaic and storage integration, virtual power plants, and energy Internet as early as 2019.". We have accumulated certain knowledge in algorithms and are constantly developing new models, new products, and new solutions. Therefore, it can be seen that Goodwe Smart Energy Division launched the WE platform very quickly and opened the market very quickly. This is because Goodwe has accumulated experience for a long time. "Dai Chensong further added.

Let smart energy “connect with humanity”

In 2021, the country proposed to build a new power system with new energy as the main body. Since then, the concept of smart energy has become popular and has gradually become a "must battleground" for the majority of energy companies and information technology companies. Among them, GoodWe is one of the few companies that can clearly implement the concept of macro smart energy into realistic and executable goals.

GoodWe believes that realizing smart energy requires development in four aspects, namely digitalization, systematization, intelligence and marketization. Therefore, it can be seen that the WE platform is based on a digital platform and based on the power system level. It continuously develops intelligent algorithms such as photovoltaic power generation prediction and multi-form energy collaboration, and focuses on participating in the power trading market as a smart energy comprehensive management platform. .

In the process of pursuing the "four modernizations" to be more refined and thorough, GoodWe also adheres to the principle that the WE platform must be based on the user's feelings and experience, and must be "humane" to solve the problem. Energy management challenges currently encountered by users. At this point, the performance of version 2.0 of the WE platform is surprising.

For example, WE Platform 2.0 can include all power station assets owned by the user. With only one account and one login platform, the status can be checked no matter what application scenario the power station is in. It is comprehensive, accurate, visual and controllable.

At the same time, when users enter WE Platform 2.0, they will find that all workflows and application functions in the asset management center are very user-friendly and are almost arranged according to the users' daily working habits. For example, if there is equipment alarm information, the WE platform will automatically make logical judgments and data analysis, summarize and highlight station-level alarms, and use advanced algorithm models to conduct detailed analysis of power loss, so that users no longer have to filter and analyze hundreds or thousands of messages by themselves. Alarm information makes operation and maintenance work easier.

More importantly, GoodWe has been emphasizing that smart energy management systems must have more advanced functions, look at problems from a "network" perspective, and solve customer pain points.

Falling into reality, the most direct manifestation is that WE Platform 2.0 has launched a settlement center. The center can support various types of photovoltaic electricity bill settlement methods such as employer time-of-use electricity prices and weighted average electricity prices. It synchronizes the state grid's time-of-use electricity bills and time periods every month and calculates them according to the contracted electricity bill rules. There is no need for manual meter reading and the electricity bill can be completed through online payment. The online settlement process is fully closed-loop, greatly improving settlement efficiency; at the same time, the settlement center is equipped with a WeChat applet, which can provide electricity consumers with bill details, electricity usage and other information to facilitate reconciliation, effectively increase willingness to pay, and "understand human nature" This way, the employer no longer has to worry about the settlement of photovoltaic electricity bills.

In addition, WE Platform 2.0 also has an important humanistic feature, which can eliminate the worry of employers being involved in multi-party disputes. For example, the power factor management function launched by the WE platform solves this pain point very well.

As we all know, actual electricity consumption includes active and reactive power. Reactive power is very important to maintain the voltage of the power system. If the reactive power is too low, the power grid will charge an additional fee.

For power station investors, this fee has nothing to do with them. For electricity users, they will not pay this fee when they do not install a power station. Instead, they will have to pay this fee after installing a power station. Therefore, this fee Most of the expenses have become a matter of "wrangling" between multiple parties. Using the WE platform, reactive power levels can be automatically identified and power factor improved, eliminating all aspects of inconvenience.

If power factor is not managed properly, it will have a negative impact on the employer's charges and the reputation of the industry. Although the WE platform mainly serves the capital, it will also take into account the interests of other parties, because if the interests of other parties are damaged, they will eventually find the capital. What we have to do is to eliminate these troubles in advance and turn the smart energy Wisdom' gives solidity. "Dai Chensong said to China Energy Network (public account hxny3060).

Conclusion

At the beginning of the launch of the smart energy WE platform, GoodWe planned three major application scenarios-photovoltaic asset management, comprehensive energy management represented by industrial parks, and virtual power plant management. It is not difficult to see that the grandeur of these three major scenarios is increasing step by step, and the WE platform still has a lot of room for development.

Currently, GoodWe has deployed virtual power plant system research and development, and is deeply involved in virtual power plant projects in prefecture-level cities, trying to optimize distributed photovoltaic power stations, energy storage systems, controllable loads, electric vehicles, etc. through aggregation and coordination Distributed energy enables regional comprehensive energy management and aggregate management of distributed energy.

"In the future, the WE platform will gradually cover the functions of integrated light storage and charging, power market transactions, power auxiliary services, carbon trading and many other scenarios, with 'humane' presentation methods and functional design to help The development of the investor's comprehensive energy business." Dai Chensong said.

It is worth mentioning that at the national level, during the implementation of new power systems, the original technologies in all aspects of generation, transmission and distribution must be subverted, and more resilient and flexible alternative solutions must be sought. This requires Many departments, enterprises and institutions participated in the construction.

GoodWe is constantly trying to integrate source, network, load and storage from three levels: power station level, park level and regional level, turning it into a micro-grid type node, and striving to use a "humane" approach , which facilitates the management and control of investors. What such efforts support is the bright future of the new power system.

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