How do operators resolve the contradiction between green and development?Huawei Ding Yun: Energy efficiency is the key

Text/Huang Haifeng

Sweeping the global high temperature, allowing high temperatures over 40 ° C in many places; regional heavy rains in the south, so that the daily precipitation daily precipitation of meteorological stations such as Guangdong Yingde exceeds the historical extreme value; Mexico at the other end of the earth suffers Surprising. These extreme weather allows people to pay more attention to environmental protection and reduce carbon emissions.

According to the UN Environmental Planning Department report, more than 120 countries and regions have made the "carbon neutrality" commitment. But like other industries such as electricity and buildings, the ICT industry is facing conflicts of development and reduced energy consumption.

"In the next 5-10 years, the contradiction between the energy consumption improvement and carbon reduction target brought by traffic growth will be a world-class problem." The 2022 "Win-Win · Huawei Innovation Week" held on July 19th will be held on July 19th. Ding Yun, the president of Huawei operator BG at the launch of the green development solution.

But he also pointed out that the key to solving the problem is to return to energy efficiency, including energy conservation and emission reduction of operators ICT infrastructure. More importantly, ICT technology enables green carbon reduction that can be enabled by thousands of industries, which can reduce the carbon emissions by 10 times.

In listening to his speech, we are doubtful. The communication industry is different from large carbon emissions such as electricity, construction, industrial, and transportation, and there is very little carbon emissions. Why should we promote energy conservation and emission reduction? Focusing on the improvement of energy efficiency, how can Huawei help operators release the power of ICT technology and promote the green development of thousands of industries?

Improve energy efficiency: operators open the door lock of the green world

Although the ICT industry does not have tall cigarette cylinders and large -scale machinery, it also faces the "carbon emissions" challenge brought by energy consumption growth. Ding Yun said in his speech that the ICT industry seems to have never faced such a severe situation, and the entire industry is carrying the urgent goal of "carbon peak" and "carbon neutrality".

We can feel this severe form more intuitively from specific data. On the one hand, the high -speed growth of data brings increased carbon emissions in the ICT industry. In 2030, the traffic brought by digital business will reach 612 ZB, 13 times that of 2020. Faced with the traffic of high -speed growth, Ding Yun pointed out that if the current energy efficiency level is evolved, the energy consumption and corresponding carbon emissions will increase by 2.3 times.

On the other hand, the Paris Agreement hopes to reach "carbon neutral" from 2051 to 2100. For this goal, the ITU pointed out that in order to abide by the Paris Agreement, the ICT industry needs to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas by 45%between 2020 and 2030.

However, in the face of increasing demand for traffic, operators have to expand the scale of the network, leading to an increase in energy consumption, which is contradictory with "carbon neutrality". In this regard, how should the ICT industry achieve both fish and bear's paw? Just as everyone was thinking, Ding Yun's next speech made us suddenly open up.

Ding Yun shared a golden sentence: "The key to solving the problem, you need to return to energy efficiency." In my opinion, energy efficiency is like the efficiency of boiling water. More water in the pot requires more electricity. There are only two methods to achieve carbon reduction: use solar energy, wind energy and other clean energy instead; or improve efficiency and reduce the use of electrical energy.

At this stage, which method should I choose to choose? In this regard, Ding Yun said that considering the current human energy consumption structure and the speed of replacement of the energy revolution in the next 10 years, compared to finding renewable energy replacement of fossil energy, the industry should pay more attention to the improvement of the energy efficiency of existing infrastructure.

"Energy efficiency is the most important Energy Efficience is the First Fuel". "The International Energy Agency has already given solutions: Energy efficiency improvement can ease the contradiction between energy consumption growth and green development. At the same time, the contribution of carbon emission reduction will account for more than 40%of the total carbon emission reduction of human society in the next 10 years.

Ding Yun believes that the solution is also applicable to the operator network. Therefore, the energy conservation and emission reduction of ICT infrastructure also follow the principle of energy efficiency. However, under the rapid development, it is not easy for operators to improve the energy efficiency of ICT networks. Therefore, opening up the lock of energy and efficiency has become the key to the door of the operator's opening of green development.

Three major values: outline the sea of ​​stars in the green development of operators

How can operators follow the first principle of energy efficiency? Ding Yun pointed out the direction for the industry: First, to find the traffic generated in the stations, networks, and operation activities to find energy efficiency improvement solutions; the second is to aim at reducing the total carbon discharge, continuously reduce the absolute power consumption, and increase the ratio of green power; the third is to formulate the formulation The indicator system standard, establish an energy efficiency baseline, and measure the level of energy efficiency.

These suggestions seem to make sense, but what benefits can be brought to operators? You know, any method must return to the essence of the problem and generate real value.

In this regard, Ding Yun further introduced that the improvement of energy efficiency will bring three major value to operators. First, use user migration, site update, and network energy conservation to bring OPEX saving, generating cost returns.

Taking network energy conservation as an example, according to Ding Yun, in Spain, operators have increased by 81%by deploying OXC on the backbone network, bringing 29%of cost savings; in Germany, operators have deployed POWERSTAR solutions to achieve minutes in minutes Level energy efficiency self -optimization has greatly improved energy effects.

Second, the business improvement of 2/3G users to 4/5G users brings development benefits. When users migrate, they can not only bring traffic improvement, but also use new businesses such as short videos, games, business and financial services, and smart homes to bring higher returns to operators. Third, through carbon reduction and emission reduction, bring environmental income and fulfill social responsibility. At present, more than 2.8 million 5G base stations constructed by global operators need to continue to operate power supply. If the operator adopts the advanced base station deployment method, it will not only reduce electricity bills, but also achieve the purpose of energy saving and emission reduction.

In this regard, Ding Yun introduced that, based on the Huawei Green Site Plan, a Turkish operator realized a one -stop and one cabinet program replaced the original machine room, saving the space and air conditioning of the computer room, and the single station saved 19,000 yuan per year.

From this point of view, the first principle of energy efficiency has outlined a beautiful star sea for operators. The next question is how operators can open energy efficiency to improve this lock.

Ding Yun said in his speech that Huawei took the lead in the industry's energy efficiency around the energy efficiency of ICT infrastructure, and took the lead in proposing systemic solutions based on green sites, green networks and green operations to support operators to improve network energy efficiency. In my opinion, the three major solutions are like three keys to help operators open the door to green development. For the three locks, Ding Yun introduced:

The first key: green site. "At the site level, we will continue to optimize the energy efficiency of the site through the innovation of the main equipment and supporting power supply, and continue to optimize the energy efficiency of the site through the innovation of the whole outdoor, high integration and new materials," said.

The second key: green network. As we all know, in order to support 5G, AI and other technologies, operators have built a large number of networks. How does such a huge network energy saving? Ding Yun introduced that at the network level, by simplifying the network architecture, improving the forwarding efficiency, and moving towards full light, minimalism and intelligence.

The third key: green operation. In fact, a large part of the overall energy consumption of operators is generated in network operations. In this regard, Ding Yun introduced that Huawei has achieved the generation and distribution of energy efficiency, visual management and optimization strategies through technological innovation.

Learning effect: ICT enables energy conservation and emission reduction of thousands of industries

These three keys can not only open the door of the operator's own green development, but also open the green development door of the entire world. In the author's opinion, with the opening of this green development door, operators will provide more and more advanced ICT technical services, such as providing low -delayed gigabit 5G, providing the calculation of it with the use of it, and the use of it. For the network, provide rich industry applications.

It is foreseeable that ICT services will penetrate into various industries and scenes in the future, as if a spring breeze blows green.

In this regard, Ding Yun said in his speech that in addition to the value -effectiveness of operators' infrastructure effects, it is more important to make operators through ICT technology, which can enable green carbon reduction in thousands of industries.

According to the "Smarter2030" report, by 2030, the global ICT industry's carbon emissions will only account for 1.97%of global carbon emissions, but ICT technology will help 20%of global carbon emissions by empowering other industries by empowering other industries. It can be seen that the ICT industry can reduce carbon emissions by 10 times.

"Huawei and operators, together with key industries such as mining, transportation, steel, etc., use their own industry solution capabilities to empower their energy conservation and emission reduction, and achieve a lot of successful practices." Ding Yun said.

For example, in Tianjin Port, based on China Mobile's 5G and autonomous driving technology, 76 unmanned collective cards operate in a limited venue. Compared with the previous box of single -box operations, the energy consumption of single boxes decreased by 20%, the comprehensive operating costs decreased by 10%, and the overall operating efficiency increased by 15%.

In Jinnan Iron and Steel, the previous manual scheduling caused a long transportation time and the loss of heat, which was not conducive to energy saving and emission reduction. We can see that based on China Unicom's green ICT technology, workers can remotely control and monitor real -time monitoring of iron tank trucks, and the transportation time is shortened from half an hour to 7 minutes.

At the Zhaonen Group, we learned that Junneng Group's unmanned mine card and remote control solution based on China Telecom 5G network achieved at least 10%fuel consumption savings, which can save 900 million yuan in 5 years.

In addition to helping operators to promote the green carbon reduction of thousands of industry, Huawei is a company with 200,000 employees and a large number of factories and office buildings. It is also actively practicing green development.

According to Ding Yun, on the production side, Huawei covers a distributed photovoltaic panel on the top of the southern factory of Dongguan, which can reduce the carbon row of more than 30,000 tons per year; on the operating side, Huawei will have the research and development laboratory from traditional decentralization to concentrated laboratories. Migration, using new energy -saving technology to achieve more than 290 million kWh per year; Huawei Chengdu Institute has achieved 100%renewable energy use, with an average annual supply of water and electricity exceeding 200 million kWh, which is equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide by 177,000 tons.

The parachute produced by myself jumps first. In the author's opinion, Huawei's own green emission reduction is on the one hand to practice dual carbon targets, and on the other hand, it has also created environmentally friendly model -ICT innovation technology has promoted green low -carbon development, with valuable and replication.

At the end of the speech, Ding Yun urged the entire industry to pay attention to energy efficiency together. Through the unified standard indicator system, the energy efficiency baseline was established, the level of energy efficiency was established, and the green development of the ICT industry scientifically guided the ICT industry. It is reported that the NCIE energy efficiency system standard proposed by Huawei United Industry has been approved by the ITU-T SG5, and it is expected to be determined as a formal standard within the year.

Observation: Green ICT, creating greater value for the industry's green development. I just just entered the communications media industry more than ten years ago, focusing on reporting green ICT for two years, including energy -saving and social energy saving such as base stations, computer rooms, and data centers. In the past years, the ICT industry has actually carried out energy conservation and emission reduction and green development. For example, operators have special departments responsible for energy conservation and emission reduction.

However, in the context of the "double carbon" goal today, the energy -saving work of operators and industry enterprises has become no longer a "additional item", but is closely related to the long -term sustainable development of the enterprise. At this time, energy conservation and emission reduction have risen from an ordinary work from an enterprise to the strategic work of the enterprise. At this time, operators are eager for more effective and targeted measures to improve their energy efficiency of themselves and the industry and reduce carbon emissions.

However, we must know that the current ICT industry to support the explosive growth of traffic, it has to build a large number of networks, and it is difficult to promote energy conservation and emission reduction. For example, the energy consumption of 5G base stations was repeatedly discussed by the industry. The three keys given by Ding Yun this time have provided good measures and suggestions for operators' double -carbon target action plans not long ago.

If you can use the power, it is invincible to the world; if you can use the wisdom, you are afraid of the saints. We hope that operators will cooperate with their own advantages and cooperate in depth with the industry to give full play to the "force" of ICT technology to help to quickly and effectively reduce carbon emissions. It is believed that with the joint efforts of the entire industry, the green ICT will create more and more value to the industry.

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