(The 9th China International Import Expo) report puts forward the value proposition of "energy intelligence" to help enterprises move from "energy consumers" to "energy operators"

China News Service, Shanghai, November 7 (Reporter Yin Qianyun) During the 9th China International Import Expo, the Schneider Electric Business Value Research Institute announced that it will soon release an "Energy Intelligence" insight report, which proposes an "Energy Intelligence" value proposition.

Xiong Yi, senior vice president of Schneider Electric, head of strategy and business development in China, and director of the Business Value Research Institute, said that he hopes that this proposition will help companies see changes clearly, make better decisions, and integrate energy costs, risks, assets and green value, making it a strategic operating capability.

With the accelerated penetration of new energy, the continuous deepening of electricity marketization, and the acceleration of industrial green transformation, the operating rules and value logic of the energy system are being reconstructed, and enterprises are accelerating from traditional "energy consumers" to "energy operators."

The report found that China's new energy policy has undergone three evolutions, from scale expansion to consumption constraints, and has now entered a new stage of responsibility and cost transmission. The sinking of responsibilities has given rise to five major issues in energy management of user enterprises: the responsibility for green electricity consumption has moved from "voluntary" to "mandatory", the user-side green electricity consumption channels are gradually opening up, adjustable loads are becoming assets, the "four cans" of distributed energy have become access permits, and the value of a single electricity has been upgraded to the four-dimensional value of electric energy, regulation, capacity, and environment.

Despite the increasingly clear direction, enterprise energy management still faces a reality gap. On the one hand, enterprises need to improve their ability to accurately analyze and judge policies, have concerns about the application of new energy technologies, and have talent shortages that have a multiplier effect; on the other hand, power users generally face common problems such as technical black-boxing, extensive management, and data fragmentation in energy management, as well as challenges unique to different industries.

The report proposes that the energy intelligent base with "platform + data + AI" is becoming the core driver of value creation, helping the user side to realize four major values: First, the cost is predictable and optimizable, and more proactive management of energy costs is combined with supply and demand forecasts, energy contracts and market changes; second, the operation is resilient, allowing energy supply and business loads to dynamically collaborate to enhance the ability of key businesses to cope with disturbances.

The third is to optimize asset returns, allowing flexible resources such as energy storage, distributed energy and adjustable loads to be further transformed from "equipment" into "assets" that can create value; the fourth is to be green traceable and verifiable, connect energy and carbon data, and establish a credible data foundation for green consumption, carbon accounting, disclosure and certification.