BEIJING, July 10 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- CCID Consulting, China's leading research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Stock Exchange: HK08235), analyzed the role of power information systems in achieving China's energy targets.
Under China's initiatives on energy conservation and emission reductions, the power industry has three ways to combat these issues: (1) structural energy conservation: adjust power industry structure, increase the use of hydropower and nuclear power in the power industry, lower the percentage of thermal power, reduce coal consumption, use more renewable energy such as hydropower and achieve overall energy conservation, (2) Energy conservation through technological progress: adopt new technologies, improve workflows, improve conversion efficiency in the power production process, raise coal utilization rate and achieve energy conservation; and (3) energy conservation through management: optimize management workflows, improve production and operational efficiency, and achieve energy conservation efficiency. For energy conservation in the power industry, structural adjustment and technological progress are most effective.
The power industry is a traditional industry with heavy power consumption. Particularly at the generation side, information system building and IT applications provide powerful production, operational and management support for power enterprises. They become an indispensable part of power enterprises' operations. In the face of current urgent needs for energy conservation and emission reductions, what can power information systems do?
At the generation link, the application of information technology mainly plays a role of energy conservation through production control and equipment management. As for power production control, information technology is used to optimally configure fuel mixture ratios, coal types and ash content to achieve the fullest coal burning and the lowest cost. Through strengthening equipment management, it is possible to improve the reliability and stability of equipment operations, lower resources consumption and achieve energy conservation.
At the transmission link, the application of information technology will promote grid optimization and operations. This helps to lower grid losses. Production control systems and automatic dispatching systems are important support for safe, stable and optimal grid operations. They are the most widely used and the most technically mature information platforms for power enterprises. The application of production control systems helps to know about the system operational state, speed up decision-making and fast diagnose system fault state. Such systems have become an indispensable tool for power dispatching and production and play an irreplaceable role in improving the reliability and safety of grid operations, lower grid operational losses, reduce production and operating cost, achieving automatic and modern power dispatching and improving dispatching efficiency.
In the electricity distribution and sales link, the application of information technology can support measurement management. This is good for improving the accuracy of electric energy measurement. Electric energy metering is the standard for measuring power enterprises' power supply. It is an important embodiment of their economic performances. IT has been widely used in electric energy measurement management systems. Such systems can perform whole lifecycle management of electric energy measuring equipment, improve technical supervision and management, and regularly change and inspect electric energy measuring devices and perform technical supervision for it at the measuring points. These systems can ensure reliable equipment operations and accurate measurement, perform online (offline) calculations of the electric energy balances of the buses at the measuring points in all ports, analyze the causes of over-standard electric energy imbalance ratios of the buses, suggest solution measures and technical solutions for improvement, and guarantee the power supply quality and operational efficiency of grids.
To sum up, energy conservation in the power industry needs to come about in a structural manner through changing the mode of economic growth and "building big power plants and shutting down small power plants". On the other hand, there is a need to improve energy conversion efficiency and achieve energy conservation through technological progress and management optimization. IT is now playing a growing role in technological progress and management optimization.
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