Driving High-Quality Development! Successful Completion of the 2025 Intelligent Photovoltaic Design Seminar
On March 27, the “2025 Intelligent Photovoltaic Design Seminar,” organized by Huawei Digital Energy, was successfully held in Dongguan. This year marks the eleventh edition of the seminar, which serves as an important platform for exchanging ideas on photovoltaic design. The event brought together leaders and experts from various design institutes and industry peers to explore new design concepts and technology applications, promoting high-quality development in the photovoltaic industry.
Innovation in Technology to Foster High-Quality Development
Scientific design is a hallmark of advanced productivity. As the green and low-carbon transition progresses, policies and measures for the consumption and regulation of new energy are being refined. Fang Liangzhou, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei Digital Energy, stated during his speech, “In 2024, while the new energy industry continues to develop rapidly, it also faces numerous challenges, such as a high proportion of new energy, storage safety, and the exponentially increasing operational difficulties of photovoltaic power plants. In the future, there are three main directions to address these challenges: first, using grid-type storage to enhance the consumption of new energy; second, considering storage safety from an end-to-end perspective encompassing design, selection, production, manufacturing, testing, and delivery; and third, employing digital and intelligent technologies to comprehensively upgrade photovoltaic system operation management.”
2025 marks the final year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, during which the government has issued a series of guiding policies to promote high-quality energy development and high-level safety construction. Shi Jingli, a researcher at the Energy Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Macro-Economic Research, emphasized that the government’s direction for achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality remains consistent, pushing for energy transformation and the establishment of a new power system. The increasing demand for energy and electricity necessitates higher standards for the development of new energy, shifting the focus of energy transformation from merely enhancing the installed capacity and penetration rate of new energy to a systematic transformation that supports a gradual increase in the proportion of new energy.
Addressing Structural Challenges in the Power System
Xin Yaozhong, Chairman of the Industrial Control Systems Industry Alliance and Chief Expert of the China Electricity Council, noted that the power system faces five structural issues under the “dual high” context: power source structure, grid structure, load structure, cybersecurity, and operational control. The grid is transitioning from digital automation to intelligent systems, emphasizing the growing importance of strengthening the safety protection framework for power monitoring. In light of the various challenges in the operation of the power system, a robust safety defense system should be established to support new energy’s active voltage support mechanisms, such as grid-type storage, while enhancing the voltage resistance levels of new energy sources. This will facilitate a tiered, localized regulation and control model for the new power system, ensuring its healthy, safe, and stable operation.
Innovative Applications and Industry Dialogue
At the seminar, Zhang Xingzhong, President of Huawei Digital Energy’s Intelligent Photovoltaic Business, emphasized, “The era of wind, solar, and storage is fully upon us. Storage and grid integration will be ubiquitous. Huawei Intelligent Photovoltaic has developed a new intelligent wind-solar-storage generator solution, creating value for customers through continuous technological innovation across four dimensions: lifecycle economics, all-scenario grid integration, comprehensive safety, and end-to-end intelligence.”
The current microgrid systems face two core challenges: economic viability and electricity stability, making large-scale replication difficult. Zhu Chengjun, President of Huawei Digital Energy’s Microgrid Sector, shared insights on Huawei’s standardized integrated microgrid solution, which is based on a digital foundation. This solution offers comprehensive lifecycle consulting services from design and simulation to operation, enabling fast delivery and scalable replication through a simplified architecture. By relying on layered control and six core grid integration technologies, the system achieves 99.9% stability while delivering higher returns on the same investment. Its four core values—professional depth, stable reliability, superior LCOE, and safety—provide robust technical support for the low-carbon and efficient transformation of the industry.
Exploring Multi-Scenario Applications
The National Energy Administration’s “Guidance on Energy Work for 2025” has clearly outlined the promotion of the “Shagao Desert” base construction, with a planned total scale of 455 million kilowatts by 2030. Facing the challenges of natural conditions and equipment reliability during the construction of wind and solar projects in the desert, Ding Yu, Chief Engineer of the Northwest Electric Power Design Institute of China Energy Construction, shared design experiences from the Shagao Desert Clean Energy Base. He highlighted the need to address issues related to grid access, consumption, harsh environments, and uncertain returns by breaking through planning and design (including equipment selection), project construction, and operational maintenance. He emphasized that inverter selection should focus on “high protection, intelligence, and low maintenance,” with particular attention to dust protection design, wide-temperature operation, and intelligent diagnostic functions to ensure reliable power station performance.
Currently, the scale of ongoing offshore photovoltaic projects in China reaches 10 million kilowatts, with an expected completion scale exceeding 40 million kilowatts by 2027. Offshore photovoltaics will become a primary battleground for future sea and light development. Tian Weihui, Director of the Civil Engineering Department of the Northwest Survey and Design Research Institute of China Electric Power Construction, noted that while opportunities and challenges coexist in offshore photovoltaics, system reliability must be comprehensively considered under complex conditions such as waves and corrosion during the design process. Continuous technological exploration and innovation, along with the accumulation of construction experience, will be crucial for improving industry standards and developing high-quality, unmanned, visualized, and intelligent offshore photovoltaic power stations.
The Future of Energy: Digitalization and Intelligence
Li Jing, Director of Intelligent Photovoltaic Technology at China Energy Construction’s Southwest Institute, remarked that the energy sector’s industrial upgrade is accelerating, making digitalization a necessary trend for the development of new energy plants. BEST is building a smart, future-linked digital station 4.0 system, focusing on four core objectives: centralized monitoring, intelligent collaboration, unmanned duty, and minimal personnel oversight. This includes a platform-side system ecosystem for nine business applications, such as digital twins, smart operations, fault warning/prediction, smart inspections, transaction decision-making, and safety management, as well as site-side intelligent devices like satellites, drones, and robots. This integrated solution will enhance safety production, maintenance, and operational decision-making in new energy stations.
Over the past decade, Huawei has driven a shift from low-cost to high-value solutions in the industry through the integration of digital technology and power electronics, leading intelligent string systems to become mainstream globally. Moving forward, Huawei will continue to collaborate closely with customers, partners, and design institutes to contribute to high-quality development in the energy industry and actively support carbon neutrality goals.
