On December 3-5, 2020, ABB was present at the 30th International Exhibition on Electric Power Equipment and Technology and the 22nd International Exhibition on Electrical Equipment (known as EP Shanghai 2020). Focusing on smart city, data center and smart transportation, ABB showcased smart microgrid management solutions, smart distribution network, smart buildings, smart hospital digital solutions, and other solutions around the theme of “electrical digitalization empowers urban smart upgrades” in a centralized way, demonstrating ABB’s industry expertise and technical strengths in promoting urban energy transition and implementing the goal of carbon neutral.
China is shifting to an electricity-centered energy consumption approach, accelerating energy transition. In 2019, the proportion of electricity in China’s total end-use energy consumption registered 26%, and the figure is expected to reach 32% by 2025. To deliver the goal of carbon neutral in 2060, the share of electricity in the total end-use energy consumption needs to be over 50%. This requires vigorously promoting technological innovation in new energy, energy storage and smart energy, addressing the operation bottleneck after the connection of a high proportion of new energy with power grid, and adopting smart management of power distribution networks.
ABB smart microgrid management solutions integrates solar power, energy storage and EV charging, and leverages the ABB Ability™ smart energy management system to provide customers with an integrated smart energy management solution that covers power generation, power transmission and distribution, and end users, thus enabling intelligent utilization and efficient operation of power generation, power grid, electrical loads and energy storage.
With the flexible energy management system for microgrid plus data analysis, ABB smart power distribution solution can reduce the impact on power grid, reduce accident rate by 30% and continuously improve user experience in the dynamic change course of power generation-power grid-electrical loads-energy storage, thus maximizing the financial benefits.
ABB Ability™ Asset Health management solution can understand the equipment operating condition via deep perception. Based on the equipment aging mechanism, it quantifies the health status of equipment and actively predicts the failure risk, and also leverages the “intelligent brain” to guide customers in optimizing equipment operating conditions, thus improving the operation & maintenance efficiency by 60%.
The wave of urbanization drives unprecedented growth in the building industry globally, creating a daunting challenge to the efforts of combating climate change. Buildings account for nearly 40% of the global energy and process related CO2 emissions, so the building industry will play a critical role while China moves towards the goal of carbon neutral. At this event, ABB exhibited several application systems and solutions that provide such capabilities as data analysis, predictive maintenance, proprietary algorithms, energy management, and smart control, helping reshape the electrical ecosystem of smart buildings.
For example, ABB smart building automation system can control ventilation, water pump, cold and heat source, power distribution, air-conditioning unit, fan coil unit, lighting and other systems of buildings, and can allow seamless data connection with ABB Ability™ Operations Data Management zenon, which helps reduce energy consumption by 25%, labor cost by 30% and hardware upgrading investment by 70%.
In smart cities, green travel is critical. As a global leader in EV infrastructure, ABB displayed end-to-end closed loop solutions from distribution to charging, including AC and DC chargers that provide IoT capabilities, ABB Ability™ charging service platform, and integrated electrical distribution system, helping build the future e-mobility system.
Smart cities that feature an Internet of Everything, and various application scenarios in life will generate a massive amount of data, and data center having data storage, transmission and computing at the core has become an infrastructure industry in the new era and is booming. To address such challenges as low availability of electrical distribution equipment, low utilization rate of electrical distribution information, and shortage of single energy source currently facing data centers, ABB has launched the Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) for smart distribution systems, which leverages digital technologies to ensure worry-free distribution in the full lifecycle, enhance operation safety, boost operation & maintenance efficiency, and optimize energy structure. The intelligent switching function can locate electrical faults within 38ms, and isolates faults and restore system power supply within 100ms, ensuring dead zone-free center-wide protection in real sense.
Built upon an innovation history of 130 years, ABB leads the mega trends of energy revolution and electrical digitalization, and takes an active part in exploring and implementing urban energy transition. Specifically, ABB deploys leading technologies to improve the energy efficiency of electrical equipment and promote interconnection of infrastructure, and also enhances exchange and cooperation with partners and customers to fulfill the mission and responsibilities of ABB as an industry leader, thus realize “Mission to Zero” of smart cities.
Welcome to ABB Booth (N1-1C31, Hall N1-N4, Shanghai New International Expo Center) to discover more interactive exhibits on site, as well as smart office solution, IOT solution for smart hospital, and installation products and solutions, etc.
ABB (ABBN: SIX Swiss Ex) is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. By connecting software to its electrification, robotics, automation and motion portfolio, ABB pushes the boundaries of technology to drive performance to new levels. With a history of excellence stretching back more than 130 years, ABB’s success is driven by about 110,000 talented employees in over 100 countries. ABB has a full range of business activities in China, including R&D, manufacturing, sales and services, with 15,000 employees located in more than 130 cities, 28 local companies, and online and offline channels across around 700 cities. www.abb.com
