Electric power urgently needs digital transformation.
Under the wave of digitalization, many enterprises at home and abroad actively carry out the practice of digital transformation, comprehensively introduce digital thinking and technology, and optimize all aspects of enterprise manufacturing, marketing and management. "In the new round of electricity reform, power enterprises are facing increasingly severe market competition and the pressure of reducing costs and increasing efficiency within enterprises, and they also urgently need reform." Jiang Jin, a third-level expert from China Southern Power Grid Digital Power Grid Research Institute, said in an interview with the all-media reporter of Communication Industry News.
When talking about the current digital transformation of the power industry, Mao Xuchu, deputy general manager of Lang Kun Wisdom and president of Su Chang Industrial Internet Research Institute, told the all-media reporter of Communication Industry News that the power industry has a high degree of automation, a good information foundation and a complete system at this stage. In the digital transformation, power companies pay more attention to the mining and application of data value, as well as the application of new technologies such as Internet of Things, big data and artificial intelligence.
Recently, Pan Hailu, deputy general manager and product director of Keyuan Intelligent Power Station Research Center, said in an interview with the all-media reporter of Communication Industry News that in the process of information construction and digital transformation, there are still problems such as insufficient intelligent perception, massive data unable to play its role, and a large number of systems unable to form information islands, equipment and information security, which need further exploration and solution.
Gong Shukai, CEO of Humi.com, said that enterprises in the power industry usually face many challenges in digital transformation. However, advanced infrastructure and massive data have laid a material foundation for the digital transformation of power enterprises. At the same time, with the rapid development of high and new technologies such as big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, mobile Internet, intelligence, blockchain, edge computing, and 5G communication, the digital transformation process of electric power has accelerated.
Daniel He, co-founder and CEO of Shu Gen Internet, believes that the general trend of comprehensively promoting digital transformation in the power industry is to take digital technology as the starting point, promote digital management and digital assets, and then realize the comprehensive digital transformation and upgrading of the whole industry from production management to business model, and finally realize a brand-new energy and service model, which will drive the transformation of the whole industry chain.
Opportunities and challenges
In recent years, with the continuous development of Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, the digital transformation of the power industry has reached a new stage. With the continuous improvement of distributed energy, energy storage and power grid technology, the digital transformation of power industry is full of opportunities and challenges.
Gong Shukai pointed out that the first is the management of power generation equipment. Due to the continuous production demand of power generation, equipment failure will lead to huge losses. Whether it is hydropower, thermal power, wind power or photovoltaic, it is necessary to improve the maintenance level of equipment. The second is grid-connected dispatching. At present, various power sources need to be coordinated and dispatched, which poses a challenge to the power generation forecast. The limited voltage regulation capacity of new energy power station is easy to cause subsynchronous ramp wave, which will adversely affect the safe and stable operation of the system. However, the uncertainty of power station output makes the power flow complex and changeable, which increases the difficulty of power grid operation control. Security problems and power forecasting problems lead to difficulties in grid connection and high power abandonment rate.
Pan Hailu believes that the first is security. With the continuous development of Internet technology, how to ensure the safety of power plant production and data has become a top priority, and autonomous control has become a basic requirement. Second, data generates value. In the years of information construction, a large number of production and management data have been produced, but these data have not played much value in most cases. Finally, unify the management platform. In the process of digital transformation of electric power enterprises, due to historical reasons, there may be products of various manufacturers and platforms, resulting in the formation of information islands, which can not work together, and even difficult to maintain and upgrade.
Mao Xuchu said, first, for the whole power generation industry, there is a need to change from process-driven informationization to data-driven informationization. In the process of digital transformation, higher requirements are put forward for enterprises, not only with strong technical platform support, but also with practical methodology, data application theory and advanced management consciousness. Second, in the process of intelligent platform transformation, not only IT personnel but also ot personnel need deep integration, but due to the gap in their own professional fields, the integration is not ideal.
At present, the digital transformation of all walks of life is in full swing, and the power industry has higher requirements for intelligence. Although the digital development of power industry is going on at this stage, we should seize this opportunity to realize digital transformation as soon as possible.
Digital transformation: starting from the pain point
"One of the biggest particularities of the power industry is that electric energy cannot be stored, and production, supply and marketing are dynamically balanced and completed at the same time. From the perspective of power generation, transmission and electricity consumption, a large amount of data will be generated, and the industrial Internet operating system can analyze these data and optimize each link. " Daniel He said frankly.
At present, the industrial internet platform has become an important way for the power industry to solve the problems of remote maintenance of equipment and grid-connected consumption of new energy. At present, power equipment manufacturers, big data service providers and power generation enterprises cooperate to access real-time data of sources, networks and loads through the platform, analyze and model with big data, and carry out systematic dispatching and control services. On the one hand, it supports new energy to realize unattended, unattended and regional maintenance mode, on the other hand, it improves the grid-connected rate of new energy and the overall electricity efficiency.
Then, how to get through the data of the whole chain, so that the energy can be truly dynamically optimized from the production end to the demand end, so that the data can play the maximum value? Daniel He believes that, first of all, long-term data precipitation and analysis are needed to continuously improve the industrial capabilities of industrial Internet operating systems; Secondly, the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain need to be opened as soon as possible to eliminate information islands; Finally, it is more necessary for the whole industry to establish a digital transformation thinking and make a common breakthrough in technology.
Pan Hailu suggested that the power industry should pay attention to the potential value of data, unify platform construction and empower business development under the premise of safety. Let security and intelligence be implemented from devices, platforms to business systems. First, in line with the national industrial upgrading strategy, we will develop a new generation of intelligent controllers, realize complete autonomy and controllability, and build a real intelligent autonomous controllable control system. Second, at the digital level, using big data, artificial intelligence, micro-services and other technologies, three-dimensional digital power plants, digital pairing, process simulation, intelligent early warning and other applications are realized. To help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, improve operational efficiency and complete digital transformation.
Mao Xuchu believes that, first of all, the digital transformation of enterprises needs top-level planning through professional consulting companies, including technical architecture planning, business architecture planning and organizational architecture planning. Secondly, enterprises should make full use of data thinking, build a data-driven platform and realize the deep mining and utilization of data value. Finally, when enterprises are building digitalization and intelligence, they need to look for manufacturers who have independent industrial Internet platforms and industry best practices and better understand the business scenarios of the power industry for cooperation. At the same time, the process of digital transformation is not achieved overnight, and it needs comprehensive and in-depth cooperation with manufacturers, so as to promote the integration of IT and ot and ensure the success rate of construction.
Jiang Jin said that in the process of serving power enterprises, integrated digital and intelligent services will inevitably face higher requirements in terms of security. Southern Digitalization Research Institute strictly implements the "three synchronizations" principle of information construction and network security of China and Southern Power Grid, and carries out special upgrading of key information infrastructure of "Digital Southern Network", security assessment, reform of domestic password application, and security compliance reform of power monitoring system to further improve structural security, ontology security and infrastructure security.
Green energy saving, * * * win double carbon
According to public data, in 2020, the carbon emissions of the power industry will account for more than 40% of the entire energy industry. Therefore, in helping the power industry achieve the goal of "double carbon", industrial Internet enterprises can help the power industry to accelerate the construction of new power systems, improve the power grid data collection, analysis and application capabilities, reduce energy consumption, play its positive role in the optimal allocation of energy resources in the whole society, promote energy green production and consumption, implement energy development strategies, and support the realization of the goal of "double carbon".
Gong Shukai believes that in the future, under the 14th Five-Year Plan, the power industry in China will gradually enter the stage of high-quality development. First of all, the central position of electricity in energy is constantly improving, which makes ensuring power safety become the core element of new energy security strategy, and it is also an urgent need for the power industry to practice the overall national security concept; Secondly, deepening the supply-side structural reform and leading the development of green and low-carbon cycle are the inevitable requirements for the construction of ecological civilization in the power industry; Third, it is an important task for the power industry to implement the major strategy of strengthening the country through science and technology by seizing the historical opportunity of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and deeply integrating innovation with cutting-edge technologies; Finally, exploring a new global energy governance model and strengthening international cooperation are important measures for the power industry to implement the "Belt and Road Initiative" and build a common destiny for mankind.
Daniel He suggested that in the process of power industry reform, the first thing is the reform of energy structure; Secondly, the industrial internet should fully and deeply empower the digital transformation of thermal power generation; Finally, in the power transmission link, through 5G+ industrial internet, vision+industrial internet and AI computing, the monitoring ability and pre-maintenance ability of transmission and distribution link are comprehensively improved, the failure rate and maintenance cost are greatly reduced, the operational efficiency is improved, and then energy conservation and emission reduction are promoted.
Wang Hao, a technical expert from Digital Power Grid Research Institute of China Southern Power Grid, told the all-media reporter of Communication Industry News that under the goal of double carbon, new energy will become the main power source in the new power system, and the new energy with high permeability will profoundly change the form, characteristics and mechanism of the traditional power system. In the new power system, the fluctuation of the system increases sharply and the inertia decreases obviously; The distributed characteristics of the system are more obvious, and the number of equipment increases sharply; The interest pattern of diversified markets is more complicated.
"In the future, the power industry will show the following trends on the road of digital high-quality development. Technically, the trend of platformization has broken the original situation that data information of various systems and departments is scattered independently and data is isolated; At the business level, the integration of infrastructure with production, finance and business, business and performance, group and power plant, MIS and SIS; From the perspective of overall ecology, the ecological trend and industrial chain will be based on a large platform, using data to improve management and improve the efficiency of supply chain and resource coordination. " Mao Xuchu said frankly.
Attachment: Excellent Scheme for Digital Transformation of Power Industry
Editor's recommendation: an excellent scheme for digital transformation of power industry
The digital transformation of the power industry is advancing. Power production, transmission and consumption are also facing the "pain point" of digital transformation of power generation, transmission, substation, distribution and electricity consumption. Solving the "pain point" is a concern of power companies. According to the three categories of platform, security and hardware, the editorial department of Industrial Internet World selected six outstanding solutions for digital transformation of power industry for reference.
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