Top Ten Trends in Digital Energy

Trend 9: Super fast charging anytime, anywhere

In the era of mobile Internet, the contradiction between rapid consumption of electricity and long-term battery life has caused many people to have "low battery anxiety", and the demand for super-fast charging anytime and anywhere is increasing.

The White Paper points out that with the development of power electronics technology, the mature application of new technologies and new materials will accelerate the improvement of charging power and miniaturization. In the future, whether it is consumer electronics or electric vehicle travel, charging will be completed within 10 minutes, and the charging location will no longer be restricted, so that you can be fully charged anytime and anywhere in the time of a cup of coffee. It is worth mentioning that the White Paper emphasizes that for electric vehicles to achieve super-fast charging, high-voltage architecture is the inevitable direction, and a higher-voltage electrical architecture-level reform is required from the charging side to the vehicle side, so that charging can be as fast and convenient as refueling.

Trend 10: Security and Trustworthiness

As the energy industry transforms towards networking, digitalization and intelligence, the reliability, security, privacy and resilience of hardware and software have become necessary requirements.

The "White Paper" points out that on the hardware side, in addition to the high-reliability design and manufacturing of the hardware itself, it is necessary to strengthen predictive maintenance, change from passive to active, and conduct life predictive maintenance at three levels from devices, equipment to systems to lay a solid foundation for reliability; on the software side, focus on layered defense to achieve layered controllability and layered defense of the software, making the software more secure and reliable.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA)'s "Digitalization and Energy", the large-scale application of digital technology will reduce oil and gas production costs by 10% to 20% and increase global oil and gas technically recoverable reserves by 5%. In the EU alone, increasing storage and digital demand response can reduce the reduction rate of photovoltaic and wind power generation from 7% to 1.6% by 2040, thereby avoiding 30 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2040. At the same time, digitalization can also benefit clean energy technologies such as carbon capture and storage.

Industry insiders pointed out that at present, the integration of my country's traditional energy industry and high-tech technologies is more limited to the establishment of test platforms, simulation laboratories, supercomputing, and the electronicization and Internetization of energy data. There has been no fundamental change in the level of energy production relations, especially in the downstream links of the energy industry. There is a lack of support for the application of digital technology. Energy digitalization is still in the initial exploratory stage. my country should take the global energy transformation as an opportunity to accelerate its progress towards comprehensive digitalization and intelligence of energy.