China News Service, Hefei, October 13th. Title: Going up and downstairs means upstream and downstream. Hefei Zero Carbon Center builds the world's leading zero-carbon technology ecosystem
China News Service reporter Zhang Qiang
On October 12, the reporter walked into the Hefei Zero Carbon Center located in Canal New City, Shushan District, Hefei City. There is no roar and smoke of traditional industrial parks here. The glass curtain walls reflect the skylight and the rooftop photovoltaic panels quietly collect energy.
The center is Anhui Province’s first new R&D institution in the zero-carbon field, the first zero-carbon industry incubation and acceleration platform and the first zero-carbon technology application demonstration park.
In the display area of Hefei Zhaoguang Energy Technology Co., Ltd., several electronic cards, an electronic scale, and a thermometer and hygrometer are running - there is no power cord, and they are all powered by indoor lights. "Perovskites are 'masters of light capture' and can achieve a conversion efficiency of 40% in indoor light environments, while traditional crystalline silicon cells only have 5%." Pan Wensheng, vice chairman of the company, picked up a paper-thin perovskite photovoltaic product module and showed it to reporters. This company, established in 2022, has built Anhui Province's first MW (megawatt) perovskite photovoltaic module pilot production line, with a cell efficiency of 27%. Its products extend from indoor IoT terminals to cutting-edge scenarios such as low-altitude economy and space photovoltaics.
A few buildings away, energy storage temperature control units are quietly circulating on the assembly line of Hefei Zero Entropy Technology Co., Ltd. "Battery cells are most afraid of sustained high temperatures. Every time the temperature rises by 10 degrees Celsius, the lifespan is theoretically reduced by 20 to 30 percent." Ye Wen, the company's general manager, said that their products keep the cells in a constant range of 20 degrees Celsius to 40 degrees Celsius, reducing auxiliary power consumption by more than 30 percent. This company, established less than three years ago, has established cooperation with leading companies such as Sungrow, and its products are exported to Europe, South Africa, Southeast Asia and other regions.
One enterprise leads to one chain, and one chain becomes one. Sunlight can solve the problem of "where does electricity come from", and Zero Entropy Technology answers "how can electricity be stored stably?" More than 40 companies in the Hefei Zero Carbon Center are upstream and downstream of each other in the fields of advanced photovoltaics and new energy storage, electrochemical energy, new materials and processes, energy conservation and environmental protection, truly realizing that "going up and down the stairs is upstream and downstream."
Behind this ecology is the industrial logic of "leading leadership + ecological incubation". Xu Yiguo, general manager of the Hefei Zero Carbon Center, told reporters that the center uses Sungrow as the main chain to build an "urban zero-carbon laboratory" integrating "technology + funds + bases": on the technical side, it has set up a zero-carbon research institute and a public experimental platform with 3 major centers and 14 laboratories; on the financial side, it supports 340 million yuan (RMB, the same below) seed and angel funds and 7 billion yuan industrial funds; on the carrier side, it provides 150,000 square meters of high-standard industrial parks and enabling services covering the entire life cycle of enterprises.
Xu Yiguo said that through three modes of internal incubation, external incubation and recruitment, the center promotes start-ups to step by step grow into high-growth enterprises, specialized and innovative "little giants" and even listed companies. The center’s output value is expected to reach 700 million yuan in 2026.
As an important carrier for Hefei to implement the national "dual carbon" strategy, the Hefei Zero Carbon Center itself is a "zero carbon demonstration park" - through the integrated closed loop of "source-grid-load-storage-carbon", the annual green power generation is 1.18 million kilowatt-hours, the annual carbon emissions are reduced by 1120 tons, and the annual energy cost is saved over 2.9 million yuan. Once completed, the park with a total investment of 2.4 billion yuan and an area of 420 acres will build a world-leading zero-carbon technology ecosystem.
