Dr. Gu Chunyuan, Chairman of ABB China, said in his speech at the event: “The path to low-carbon development is a global consensus. Increasing the proportion of renewable energy, further promoting electrification, as well as improving efficiency and reducing energy consumption are the three major paths to achieve carbon neutrality. Among them, energy conservation and efficiency is the shortest investment cycle, the fastest effect, the most economic “first energy”. Through technological innovation in electrification, automation and digitalization, we can further improve production efficiency and resource efficiency, achieving both carbon reduction and development.”

In order to raise awareness of energy conservation and combat climate change, ABB has launched the #energyefficiencymovement worldwide since 2021, calling on all sectors to take action to reduce energy consumption, reduce emissions, make commitments and share practices. Some 300 companies and organizations are already participating in the initiative. At this event, a number of enterprises said they would join the “Energy saving and efficiency action” to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In the process of implementing energy efficiency improvement and promoting green development, it is particularly critical to establish and improve relevant laws and regulations and industry standards, and improve services and regulatory systems. Dr. Li Pengcheng, chief researcher in the field of energy conservation and low carbon at the China Institute of Standardization, shared expert insights around the theme of “Energy efficiency standard labeling of End products” at the event. Talking about how energy efficiency standards change the distribution of market efficiency and support market transformation, he said: “Standards play a ‘push’ and ‘pull’ role: on the one hand, through mandatory access indicators, eliminate backward and inefficient

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products; On the other hand, by clarifying energy-saving products, we encourage leading enterprises to drive the overall improvement of energy efficiency. Energy efficiency standards are an important bridge to transmit energy conservation and carbon reduction policy signals to the industry, and domestic and international practice has proved that this is a very effective way.”

Digitalization and intelligence are a major focus of hot discussion among the guests. A recent energy efficiency investment survey conducted by ABB also showed that nearly half of the Chinese respondents listed “lack of digital skills” as the top obstacle to improving energy efficiency. Looking forward to the future development direction of intelligence and digitalization, Professor Wang Feiyue, director of the State Key Laboratory of Complex Systems Management and Control of China and researcher of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, delivered a speech entitled “Digital employees and parallel enterprises: Scenario engineering and Business large Model Change energy saving and Efficiency Model”.
Professor Wang Feiyue pointed out that the future intelligence will be human intelligence + artificial intelligence + natural intelligence + organizational intelligence; The future enterprise will be “robot + biological person + digital person” three types of employees to work together. 80% of the working time will be in autonomous mode, 15% of the working time will be in parallel mode, virtual and real combination, and 5% of the working time will be in expert emergency mode. We rely on professional division of labor to come to today, and now we are doing human-machine division of labor in full swing, below we will enter the future of virtual and real division of labor, and gradually move toward the world of 6S: Physical world Security (Safety), information space security (Security), ecological Sustainability (Sustainability), personalized privacy protection (Sensitivity), quality Service (Service), Ultimately, smart economy, smart society and smart industry (Smartness).

At present, the industrial field is one of the important fields and main battlefields of energy conservation and efficiency improvement. In 2022, China’s industrial electricity consumption accounted for 64.8% of the total social electricity consumption. Last year, six departments of China jointly issued the Action Plan for Improving Industrial Energy Efficiency, which proposed that by 2025, energy efficiency of key industries should be improved comprehensively, the proportion of green and low-carbon energy use should be significantly increased, and energy consumption per unit of added value of industrial enterprises above designated size should be reduced by 13.5% from 2020.