Today, the importance of carbon neutrality has become a self-evident societal ****.

The question is: how do we achieve carbon neutrality? There is no doubt that tens of millions of businesses of all kinds are critical players on the road to carbon neutrality.

The role of technology companies is particularly critical.

From what we've seen so far, world-class tech giants like Google, Apple, and Facebook are leading the charge toward 100% renewable energy - and Chinese tech companies are already committed to carbon neutrality. "

They're all in the same boat, and they're all in the same boat.

Some of them are replacing traditional materials with green materials, some are realizing smart remote control through smart home appliances, some are developing energy-efficient air conditioning and refrigeration systems, and some are building green supply chains - all coinciding with the fact that these tech companies are innovating and integrating themselves into the "carbon neutral" blueprint.

Based on the concept of "carbon neutral", the company has been working on a number of new initiatives.

Based on this, Lei Feng network interviewed and sorted out some of the Chinese technology enterprises at the forefront of carbon neutrality in terms of playing and highlights.

Lenovo: left-handed green materials, right-handed technological innovation

As a high-tech manufacturing enterprise in China, Lenovo not only through the creation of energy-saving and environmentally friendly green products, promote the circular economy, promote energy saving and environmental protection, green technological innovation and other ways to realize the low-carbon development road with Lenovo characteristics, but also through the green manufacturing, green supply chain system, to guide and drive the entire industry chain upstream and downstream ** with the realization of low-carbon transformation. **The company's newest product is a new generation of products and services that are designed to meet the needs of the market.

In terms of green materials, since 2007, Lenovo has begun to apply waste plastic recycling technology across the entire line of Lenovo desktops, notebooks, monitors, servers, and other products, which has reduced carbon emissions by about 60,000 tons in total, equivalent to planting more than 3 million trees.

In terms of green packaging, since 2008, Lenovo has taken the lead in the industry by introducing technologies such as biodegradable bamboo and sugarcane fiber packaging, reducing packaging material usage by 3,100 tons. In fiscal year 2019/20 alone, packaging consumption was reduced by 560 tons.

In terms of green energy, Lenovo also built a solar photovoltaic project at its Hefei plant, reducing carbon emissions by a cumulative total of 6,284 tons through green engineering projects such as PV Phase I and Phase II construction, air compressor energy efficiency upgrades and heat recovery, water storage and cooling retrofits, and low-carbon boiler retrofits, equivalent to planting 350,000 trees.

For technological innovation in the production chain, Lenovo promoted the use of the new low-temperature solder paste technology (LTS) in the personal computer production and manufacturing base Lianbao factory to change the electronics manufacturing industry for more than a decade of high-heat, high-energy, high-emission problems.

At present, low temperature solder paste has been realized in the PC field of large-scale application, can save up to 35% of carbon emissions, to achieve annual savings of 1087 tons of carbon emissions.

At the same time, Lenovo Advanced Production Scheduling System (LAPS) saves more than 2,696 megawatt-hours of electricity per year by improving productivity and reducing production line idleness, which reduces more than 2,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, the equivalent of planting 110,000 trees per year.

In addition, these initiatives have led to an overall transformation of Lenovo's supply chain businesses.

Over the years, Lenovo has extended its own emissions reduction practices to tier-1 suppliers and upstream and downstream companies in the industrial chain supply chain, prompting suppliers to commit to reducing emissions and increasing the use of new energy sources.

MaxOffice: "Intelligent Buildings" as an entry point, smart home appliances to support

MaxOffice's contribution to carbon neutrality chooses "Intelligent Buildings" as an entry point.

Intelligent buildings are known as the driver of the high-quality development of smart cities, and are an indispensable part of the "new infrastructure". With this year's two sessions, "carbon peak", "carbon neutral" was written into the government's work report, how to reduce the energy consumption of the HVAC system, has become the focus of industry attention.

Carbon neutral and background, the building system products put forward two major requirements: one is a substantial increase in energy efficiency; the second is a flexible response to the demand for grid regulation, the United States in 2020 launched the sixth generation of heat recovery products - ultra-wide range of three-control heat recovery system can be in the minus 15 to zero on the 48 degrees Celsius of a wide range of operation, featuring high comfort, high energy efficiency, and ultra-low temperature small capacity startup.

At the same time, the U.S. released the "U.S. control of the three major nervous system to build the next generation of intelligent buildings," focusing on the layout of the entire industrial chain of intelligent buildings, focusing on building intelligent buildings three major nervous system.

Sun Jing, general manager of the HVAC and building division of the U.S. Shanghai U.S. control company, said that if the building is compared to a person, the U.S. HVAC and building is aimed at constructing the building's mind, heart, skin, bones, respiratory system and metabolism system, to build the building into a warm, perceptible, thinking living organism. And the United States of America's focus on intelligent building "U.S. control" (Shanghai U.S. control intelligent building Co., Ltd.) plays a role in which is connected to the organs of the "nervous system".

Among them, the U.S. control of the full range of building automation products, such as DDC controllers, M-BMS building automation systems and other air conditioning and hardware and software related to the core products, can be understood as the building of the "autonomic nervous system"; secondly, based on the industry scenarios, the integration of business-specific systems, such as hospitals in the smart clinic, Wisdom wards in hospitals, intelligent platforms in rail transportation, efficient machine rooms and other industry applications is the second major nervous system - "peripheral nerve"; and the third major nervous system - "central nerve". "central nerve", represents the full life cycle service for smart buildings. Based on the advantages of Midea Group's basic scientific research, advanced research, innovation center, high-end manufacturing, engineering implementation, and cooperation network, Midea Control realizes the integration from top-level design, construction, and commissioning to the digital operation and maintenance platform, and with the peace of mind, comfort, low carbon, and efficiency enhancement as the The company's vision is to build a "smart building" that belongs to the users.

In addition, the U.S. actively develop foreign cooperation, hand in hand with the State Grid China Electric Power Research Institute *** with the creation of white goods in the field of the first batch of "carbon-neutral" smart home appliances, the first batch of cooperative appliances covering a number of smart home appliance categories, and will be introduced to the market this year, to promote "carbon-neutral" in the home appliance industry on the ground. The first batch of cooperation appliances covers a number of smart home appliance categories and will be introduced to the market this year to promote "carbon neutral" in the home appliance industry.

Greece: Building Green Refrigeration Technology, Building Smart Home Systems

In the context of practicing the concept of green development, the new breakthroughs in the field of energy-saving innovative technologies of Gree Electric have a strong reality and orientation, and have become a manufacturing enterprise with scientific and technological innovations to assist the "Carbon Peak"

The first batch of cooperative appliances covers a number of smart home appliance categories, and will be pushed to the market this year to promote the "carbon neutral" in the household appliance industry. "

As early as in the early days of the company's history, the company's energy-saving innovations have become more and more important to the company's success.

As early as December 2011, Gree permanent magnet synchronous frequency centrifugal chiller by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, the Chinese Institute of Refrigeration, the China Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Industry Association and other authoritative institutions, experts unanimously appraised as "the world's first high-speed and high-power DC frequency centrifugal unit", to reach "international leading". It has reached the "international leading" level.

In this year's refrigeration exhibition, Gree official announcement of the new 10kV high-voltage direct-drive permanent magnet synchronous frequency centrifugal unit, the unit in the stability, energy saving compared to the same type of unit and a new breakthrough.

In recent years, Gree's permanent magnet synchronous frequency centrifugal chiller units have repeatedly won bids for domestic and international super projects - the Great Hall of the People and Beijing Daxing International Airport - with "crushing" advantages in high efficiency refrigeration, power saving and energy saving, "China Zun", the State Nuclear Pressurized Water Reactor Demonstration Project and some areas of the State Nuclear Power Plant, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Zhuhai Border Crossing Transportation Hub and so on.

Gree core technology throughout the domestic and international landmarks, which is most impressive is the 2015 Gree Electric on behalf of the national brand won the bidding for the centrifugal machine procurement project in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, which is the first time that China's national brand air-conditioning products are stationed in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

According to relevant data, Gree permanent magnet synchronous inverter centrifugal chiller since its installation in 2015, the Great Hall of the People to reduce the average annual power consumption of 310,000 degrees, the power saving rate of nearly 32%; at the same time, the environment of the machine room has improved significantly, and the highest noise is only 80 decibels, a full range of national enterprises to show the social responsibility.

In addition to the major breakthroughs and successful application of green and efficient refrigeration technology, Gree has built a smart home system that is optimized around the goal of "carbon neutrality".

For example, Gree's "Zero Carbon Healthy Home" is based on Gree's photovoltaic G-IEMS local energy internet system, which allows the home to independently realize "power generation", "storage", "use", "storage", and "use".

Haier: deep plowing the park, front-end and back-end together

Haier's Sino-German Industrial Park is located in Huangdao District, Qingdao City, is the international advanced industry 4.0 demonstration base, bear the production of the central air conditioning, drum washing machine, special refrigerator and other products.

In order to contribute to carbon neutrality, Haier has made the park the world's first "lighthouse base" for carbon neutrality, empowered by its industrial internet platform, Kaos.

The Kaos intelligent energy master control platform realizes "three streams in one". The platform combines energy Internet, big data, cloud computing and other technologies, as well as Haier's many years of experience in energy operation and management, to realize the "three streams" of energy flow, data flow and carbon traceability flow.

The system can provide centralized, intuitive dynamic monitoring and digital management of the entire chain of production, transmission, distribution, and use of energy power in the park, such as electricity, water, gas, heat, compressed air, sewage treatment, fountains, photovoltaics, lighting, elevators, etc., improve and optimize the energy balance, and improve the overall efficiency of the park's energy system control and scheduling.

For the front end, Haier in the 130,000 square meters of the park on the roof, the year will be completed a total installed capacity of 13.5 megawatts of photovoltaic power generation system construction, the annual power generation of more than 15 million degrees, equivalent to about 13,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions reduction. Taking advantage of the high quality wind conditions in the area, it is planned to build three 3 MW low wind speed turbines, with an estimated annual power generation capacity of 40.8 million kWh, which will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 35,000 tons. The park's reduced fossil energy use is about 48,000 acres of reforestation.

For the back-end, Haier Sino-German Industrial Park is a manufacturing and production-oriented park, which reduces single-unit energy consumption at the back-end in response to the characteristics of energy use.

Kaos not only empowers Haier Zhongde Industrial Park to become the world's first "lighthouse base" to achieve carbon neutrality, but also uses the park as a template to create a standardized model for energy efficiency, clean energy, and net-zero-emission sustainability, which has been rapidly replicated in 15 industrial parks across China and 55 connected factories. comprehensive coverage, and is expected to achieve nationwide carbon neutrality in Haier Group industrial parks by 2050.

TCL: A unique way to open up a new semiconductor track

As the "global leader in Chinese TVs", TCL has always endeavored to integrate the concept of environmental protection into the whole life cycle of product development in its terminal products, and has considered the demand for energy saving and consumption reduction in its product design. TCL has always tried to integrate the concept of environmental protection into the whole life cycle of product development in its terminal products. From the beginning of product design, TCL has considered the need for energy saving and consumption reduction, developed and adopted energy saving and consumption reduction technologies, and improved the energy efficiency of its products through technological innovations, so as to minimize the negative impact on the environment in the process of production and use of products.

On the route of Mini LED technology, which is more low-power and environmentally friendly, TCL is the first manufacturer to research and develop, the earliest layout, and the earliest to realize the mass production of Mini LED TV.

In 2018, TCL then exhibited the world's first Mini LED backlight TV, and realized mass production in 2019. After that, TCL launched a number of Mini LED TV products, and its Mini LED TV global sales accounted for 90% in 2020.2021 spring hair, and launched the TCL X12 8K Mini LED Star Obsidian Zhi screen, equipped with the third generation of Mini LED technology OD Zero.

In terms of the display screen, TCL Huaxing in 2019 launched the The first glass-based Mini LED product - Star Obsidian screen, its energy consumption compared to ordinary products by 60%, with 75-inch products open 12 hours a day accounting, Star Obsidian screen power consumption will be reduced by 1,515 degrees per year than similar ordinary products. In addition, TCL Huaxing 23.8-inch FHD display, in the current market generally certified EnergyStar (EnergyStar) ES7.0 based on the design optimization to achieve Es8.0 certification leading, energy consumption compared to similar products reduced by 45%.

At the same time, TCL comprehensively implements green manufacturing of industrial chain, strengthens technological innovation, and strives to build a green manufacturing system that is efficient, clean, low-carbon, and circular. Through the construction of green factories, the implementation of energy-saving renovation projects, the use of renewable energy and waste reduction management, and other methods to continuously improve the enterprise's own green manufacturing level.

In addition, TCL is more active in the development and utilization of renewable energy and the construction of low-carbon and environmentally friendly green production parks. By the end of 2019, TCL has built distributed rooftop photovoltaic power generation systems with a total installed capacity of 31.312 megawatts and an annual power generation capacity of more than 32 million kWh in three production bases.

In July 2020, TCL Technology participated in the mixing and reform of the Central Group, opening up a new track of semiconductor photovoltaic and semiconductor materials, and acquired a subsidiary of Central Semiconductor.

As a leader in the semiconductor photovoltaic industry, Azeus Semiconductor is undoubtedly given a brand new historical mission under the "dual-carbon" goal. In 2019, Azeus Semiconductor will release 12-inch super-large silicon wafers "Quartus" G12 series, which not only breaks through the traditional size of the industry, but also brings higher photoelectric conversion efficiency, higher manufacturing efficiency, and reduces the cost of photovoltaic power generation by 6.8%. Meanwhile, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), in cooperation with the industrial chain, has launched the G12 stacked wattage module with high efficiency, high reliability and high power generation capacity, which contributes to the wisdom of realizing grid parity for PV power generation, and helps accelerate the realization of the goal of "carbon neutrality".

Teslink: AIoT platform + intelligent solutions, walking on two legs

In order to help achieve the "30-60 carbon target", Teslink has started from the accumulation of scenarios, and realized full-cycle monitoring of the entire carbon emission behavior through the opening of the data platform and the empowerment of AIoT technology. Tesco has started from the accumulation of scenarios and realized the full-cycle monitoring of the entire carbon emission behavior through the opening of the data platform and the empowerment of AIoT technology.

The construction of the AI Carbon Neutral Cloud is Tesla's latest development in this area.

Tesco's AI Carbon Neutral Cloud is a unified platform that dynamically integrates AIoT sensing data, environmental and resource data, and focuses on the energy consumption chain.

Teslink AI Carbon Neutral Cloud for the new building integrated energy consumption management, energy saving and heating and cooling management, energy consumption digital management and environmental digital monitoring, digital center efficiency, production and lifestyle interconnection of the six core energy consumption scenarios, relying on Teslink intelligent operating system TACOS and intelligent algorithms to create six core products corresponding to them, they are: Building automation, intelligent lighting, super energy management and control AI energy cloud, intelligent home, high-efficiency server room and AIDC cloud.

With the above products, Teslink will serve the carbon neutral needs of communities, parks, commercial, cultural and tourism, industrial, construction and IDC scenarios.

At the same time, Teslite has developed the "AI CITY Solution", which is a total digital intelligence solution for cities built on AIoT technology from the top-level design of cities.

As early as the beginning of the planning, the concept of carbon neutrality was fully integrated, and through the digital twin system to realize the scene data visualization, energy emissions can be traced. Through the construction and operation of AI CITY, it will create an intelligent and sustainable development space integrating nature and technology for the target city.

Ayu, Founder and CEO of Teslink, said, "Taking AI PPARK, the first phase of AI CITY in Chongqing, as an example, it is estimated that, after formal operation, the daily carbon emissions of AI PARK are far less than the carbon absorption. After 16 months of construction and operation, AI PARK is expected to neutralize the small amount of carbon emissions generated during the construction phase. After 50 years of operation, i.e. by 2071, AI PARK will also absorb about 170,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the surrounding area."

Up to now, Teslink is continuously promoting the landing of AI CITY globally, and has already reached AI CITY cooperation with a number of central cities, including Chongqing, Dubai, Wuhan, and Deyang.

Doodle Intelligence: building the "strongest brain", realizing sensible, visible and controllable

Doodle believes that home appliances are an important scenario for saving electricity.

Graffiti Smart empowers hardware manufacturers to develop "smart sockets", and once the appliances are equipped with smart sockets, they can be turned on/off remotely through cell phones and voice to set the timer or even control the appliance switches through sensors, and cut off the power supply in standby mode to save energy consumption.

With Graffiti's IoT PaaS and full range of terminal ecosystems, Graffiti Intelligence can help developers build integrated energy solutions that include home energy services, home energy efficiency management, energy-saving electricity services, and electricity monitoring for home appliances and equipment. Real estate developers and community operators can accurately grasp the energy consumption situation and realize the intelligent regulation of electrical appliances and equipment, as well as the closed-loop management of power supply, power grid, load and energy storage. In addition to ensuring the safety and reliability of electricity consumption, it also creates a comfortable and livable environment for residents.

Similarly, the footsteps of Graffiti intelligent energy industry solutions have long been more than just homes and communities, but into the industrial, commercial, buildings, parks and other scenarios, empowering partners to create exclusive industry SaaS solutions based on demand.

Taking the management of buildings and parks as an example, Graffiti smart energy solutions provide multi-dimensional energy consumption analysis and accurate diagnosis of energy equipment, comprehensive control of energy consumption, and maximize the realization of energy saving. Even if it is unattended, it can be combined with building automation, intelligent lighting and other systems to achieve visual management of energy.

The secret behind all this lies in the "strongest brain" built by Graffiti Intelligence. Graffiti through AI + IoT technology will be highly integrated with the networked devices, to do online management, and will be a huge amount of data convergence in a large screen, and even be able to achieve further management. Sensible, visible and controllable, this is exactly the breakthrough of the Graffiti intelligent energy industry solutions.

Green Rice: intelligent control, visual data management model

Traditional home equipment are required to rely on human field operation, if you go out and forget to turn off the air conditioning, forget to turn off the lights, etc., a day down is several degrees of electricity. Through the smart home, you can realize the remote shutdown of the device through the App and other ways. Of course, App control still needs to be manual, and it's not smart enough.

Aqara has many sensor devices, including human body sensors, light sensors, door and window sensors, temperature and humidity sensors, and so on, with the use of the device can realize the automatic control, you do not need to do it, the device can be based on the environment, according to your needs to realize automatic control.

For example, when Aqara's high-progress human sensors determine that there is no one in the house, they can automatically turn off the lights, air conditioning, TV, and so on. When the ambient temperature slowly decreases at night, and we have turned on the air conditioning, it can be turned off automatically.

Another example is with Aqara's light sensor, when the indoor brightness is too dark, it can automatically open the curtains, and when the indoor brightness is too bright, it can dim the lights, realizing energy saving and emission reduction.

If the above features are placed in a public **** space, the result is the same, and the larger the space, the more lamps, air conditioners, and so on, the higher the cost of management and labor, intelligent in the period of the management efficiency and energy saving is more obvious.

Aqara's smart office solution in a technology park in Beijing, every day to the designated point in time, when the designated area is no one, you can automatically turn off the area's power and equipment. Every day when there is no one in the meeting room, not only will it automatically release the meeting room for other people to make reservations, but it will also automatically turn off all the equipment in the meeting room, and then automatically turn on when someone comes to the meeting tour.

Most of Aqara's devices have power statistics, which provide data visualization and management for enterprise users, allowing them to intuitively understand the power consumption of each space, the ambient temperature and humidity, as well as the working status of each device, making it easy to understand the final energy usage, and thus carry out a fine-grained and optimized management.

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