en.Wedoany.com Reported - At the 4th China PV-Storage-DC-Flexible Conference, Schneider Electric unveiled a modular, scalable full-scenario system solution covering PV-storage-DC-flexible applications for industrial and commercial buildings, zero-carbon parks, highway service areas, and residential settings, aiming to advance the technology from single-point demonstrations to multi-scenario large-scale deployment.
The core challenge currently facing the industry lies in adapting technical solutions to diverse application scenarios, which vary significantly in energy consumption patterns, power levels, and regulation requirements. Schneider Electric's newly launched solution integrates DC power distribution, conversion, protection, and control, adopting a modular design for flexible deployment based on demand. At the bottom control equipment and protection mechanism layer of the DC microgrid, the solution offers a hardware product portfolio including AC/DC circuit breakers, contactors, automatic transfer switches, disconnect switches, and surge protective devices. At the edge control terminal layer, the EcoStruxureTM POI-MG integrated intelligent microgrid controller can adapt to various microgrid scenarios, reducing levelized cost of energy and demand charges, while optimizing management through cloud-edge collaboration and AI technology. At the energy management system layer, the EMA Microgrid Energy Advisor provides comprehensive energy dispatch management capabilities based on AI and model optimization, enabling intelligent scheduling of local microgrids, improving operational performance, reducing carbon footprint, and facilitating interactive coordination with external power grids.
Hou Zheng, Head of Energy Management Low Voltage Business Strategy and Innovation Incubation at Schneider Electric, noted during the forum that driven by dual-carbon policies, customer demand has shifted from simple electricity procurement to integrated source-grid-load-storage solutions and customized PV-storage-DC-flexible systems. The core market competition has evolved from hardware product sales to overall energy architecture planning, digital energy management, and one-stop low-carbon system solutions. Hou Zheng also mentioned that AI data centers offer significant development space for DC technology, with their long-term evolutionary architecture and underlying technical components being highly homologous to zero-carbon park solutions.
In the early project phase, Schneider Electric provides feasibility analysis covering dual-carbon consulting and green smart manufacturing consulting, leveraging microgrid design tools for PV and energy storage capacity planning and ROI calculation. During the design phase, system safety verification is completed via ETAP Design. In the EPC delivery phase, partners collaborate on equipment supply, installation, and integrated commissioning. During the operation phase, long-term services help reduce energy costs. Project owners can adopt a self-built self-owned model or an EMC energy performance contracting model to advance the project.
At this conference, the PV-storage-DC-flexible demonstration project at Schneider Electric's Shanghai Jinshan Innovation Experimental Park was selected as a National Key R&D Program Science and Technology Demonstration Project under the 14th Five-Year Plan. Hao Bin, Secretary-General of the PV-Storage-DC-Flexible Professional Committee of the China Building Energy Efficiency Association, visited the park, toured the R&D experimental center and the PV-storage-DC-flexible implementation project, and discussed technology development trends.
Taking the Yangtze River Delta International Low-Carbon Industry Innovation Park in Kunshan as an example, Schneider Electric provided a PV-storage-DC-flexible solution integrating the EMA Microgrid Energy Advisor, POI-MG Microgrid Station Expert, AC/DC and energy storage conversion cabinets, DC distribution cabinets, and control cabinets. The first phase of the project is expected to achieve an average annual photovoltaic power generation of 2,100 MWh and an annual carbon reduction of 2,210 tons. This project was also recognized as a National Key R&D Program Science and Technology Demonstration Project under the 14th Five-Year Plan, and has obtained LEED Platinum certification and China's three-star green building certification.
