Huawei advises power firms on integration

To build a better connected smart grid, power utilities need to focus on the integration of power, service and information, Huawei, a global Information and Communications Technology solutions provider, has said.

The company said in a report that traditional energy consumption methods were expensive and inefficient and could no longer meet contemporary requirements.

It, however, said a new era of Information and Communications Technology was emerging, offering a plethora of technologies that could be harnessed and combining the power of the Internet and the energy revolution to connect all energy resources.

The report stated, “Future electric power systems must utilise advanced ICT technologies, including Big Data, as well as the massive amounts of data accumulated by various modules within the power systems.

“Power utilities must integrate various modules, including production, distribution, consumption, and storage, from the system lifecycle perspective to form global system solutions. These systems must learn, adapt, and evolve by themselves. Only by achieving these objectives are power utilities able to provide clean and economical electricity while striking a balance between demand and supply.”

The company said in 2014 it proposed the idea of a better connected grid, adding that since then, it had been committed to applying leading ICT technologies in the electric power industry and helping the industry resolve problems that occur during its evolution.

It said, “In essence, a better connected grid is a fully connected grid that constitutes the ICT infrastructure of the energy Internet. Huawei believes that the core issue for the energy Internet is to rebuild the conventional mindset of energy enterprises using the concept of full connectivity.