Huawei power summit shows smart grid enhances energy efficiency

Huawei hosted the Power Industry Summit in West African Power Industry Convention (WAPIC) 2015 themed “Better Connected Smart Grid, Greater Energy Efficiency” in Lagos, Nigeria.The event gathered industry experts and senior executives of West African electric power companies to discussemerging industry trends and issues. Topics of discussion included improvements in new energy conversion efficiency and the utilization of information and communication technology (ICT), sensors, measurement, and control technologies to improve the operation and management efficiency of electric power companies.

Jerry Ji, President of Energy Industry, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei, delivered a keynote speech at the Summit. He said, “Enhancing energy efficiency throughoutthe entire process, which includeselectric power generation, transmission, distribution, and consumption has become a common goal for electric power companies around the world. With Huawei’s Fully-connected Smart Grid Solution based on innovative ICT infrastructure, these companies can build safe, reliable, environmentally friendly, and sustainable power grids to improve energy and operational efficiency.”He went on to highlight thatcontribution from channel partners is important to the ecosystem as it enables a better connected smart grid that adopts an open architecture. He also said, “In line with its Business-Driven ICT Infrastructure (BDII) guiding principle, Huawei is committed to building a smart grid value chain by focusing on ICT infrastructure and implementing its ‘Win-Win Cooperation’ strategy. With this, Huawei fully collaborates with its partners in the areas of technology, hardware, software, and services to enable joint innovations, helping customers in the electric power industry achieve business success.”

At the Summit, Huawei showcased its Fully-connected Smart Grid Solutionsin both a corporate operation scenarioand electricity operation scenario. Demonstrations in electricity generation, transmission, transformation, distribution, and consumption were provided to show how innovative ICT infrastructure helps electric power companies construct safe, reliable, environmentally friendly, and sustainable power grids thatimprove their energy and operational efficiency.Huawei also showcased its latest Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Solutionthatprovides a well-designed customer management system to help electric power companies improve operational efficiency. The AMI Solution leverages Hi-Power Line Carrier (PLC) communication, Internet of Things (IoT) gateways and platforms to support enormous volumes of intelligent terminalconnections, convenient installations, and the compatibility and adaptability of different intelligent terminals.

In the electric power industry, Huawei has provided servicesto more than 160 power companies around the world, covering more than 100,000 substations. Huawei’s AMI Solution has helped a Nigerianpower companyenable real-time electricity fee settlement, which previously took the company two to three months to complete. In Thailand, Huawei’s Power Transmission and Transformation Solutionhelped the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA)build a secure high-speed grid communications network to facilitate the construction of smart grids. Huawei’sSmart PV Plant Solution has also helped a 20 MW PV power plant in Trowbridge in the United Kingdom increase electricity generation while improving its operational and management efficiency. In China, Huawei has worked with China Southern Power Grid (CSG) toconstruct its eLTE ultra-broadband wireless smart power distribution network with millisecond latency to supportcommunications requirements of services such as telemetering, remote signaling, remote control, video surveillance and multi-media trunking services that require high bandwidth.