WuJianDong: China needs to accelerate development of intelligent energy under COP21, expert

By Xinhua writer Chen Wenxian, An Na

BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Climate Change Conference in Paris 2015(COP21) will develop the final draft, which is a legally binding treaty of the ‘United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’. The treaty is based on ‘Intended Nationally Determined Contributions’ from different ries, which means that developed ries as US and Europe ries will continue to be the main force leading a global low carbon economy in the future. In order to catch up the world's leading frontier change, the State Council issued "Guideline for actively promoting the ‘Internet +’ in July 2015, which clearly put forward the "Internet +" Intelligent Energy, where ‘+’ is not limited to the existing concept of smart grid and energy Internet, but has a broader meaning of adding intelligent energy into internet, which contains the core Competitiveness of China’s innovation in energy.

How does the development of intelligent energy bring change to China's energy strategy? What kind of role China will play in global low-carbon economy in the future? Professor Wu Jiandong will give in depth answers during the interview with Xinhua News Agency.

Professor Wu recently proposed innovative ideas in international energy reformation in his strategic doctrine of ‘Internet of Things, AI systems and Internet reshape the world's energy productivity’, as well as in the report of ‘Intelligent Energy Internet–Action to determine the success of the world's low carbon transition’.

Q: What is the significance of Paris Climate Agreement? How to transfer from traditional energy to intelligent energy? What are the main methods to achieve the goal?

Wu: The historical significance of the Paris Climate Agreement is to announce the end of high carbon economy era lasting 200 years for the first time. Actually, “U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change” signed in December, 2014 and “EU-China Joint Statement on Climate Change” signed in June , 2015 had built the basic framework for the Paris Climate Agreement, including the emission peak and strategic cooperation arrangements. Paris Climate Conference express the low carbon growth strategy of these ries in the form of an agreement. Human progress needs to achieve low carbon transition.

However, the world will not only need a strategic vision set up in Paris agreement, but also need to establish the relevant action competency. We advocate to accelerate “the three replacements”, i.e. updating traditional low efficient, high carbon energy system by high efficient, low carbon system enabled by artificial intelligent(AI) system and internet of things(IOT); switching producer centric, centralized energy system to customer centric, intelligent distributed energy system; changing from company pricing and passive trading to dynamic pricing and intelligent business.

The development of intelligent energy, including the construction of a new energy IOT is the historic channel to achieve the three replacements. This is also the technological revolution and industrial changes which the world's productivity and influence in parallel with the Internet. People who have the core competence will have the commanding height of the world's industrial revolution.

Q: What are the differences between Intelligent Energy Internet and conventional energy network? As the founder of Intelligent Energy doctrine, what do you think is the core content of Intelligent Energy Internet?

Wu: Essentially, the main frame of the intelligent energy internet system consists of: energy IOT + shared energy flow database, mobile energy network + dynamic pricing and intelligent business + low emission energy, i.e. energy IOT is the basis; dynamic pricing and intelligent business are pillars, the development of shared energy flow database is the focus, prosumers are in center, achieving low emission economy is the objective. Intelligent energy is an ecological system to realize the positive interaction between consumers and producers and is also a popular new productivity tool.

Intelligent energy network is not only the world's frontier of integrated development of IOT, AI, and Internet, but also the main channel of achievement of economic transformation.

Q: Intelligent Energy is the key to low-carbon economy, and then what is the roadmap to Intelligent Energy Internet?

Wu: In our opinion, the construction of global intelligent energy internet will have three phases: pilot innovation and operation in large economies and developed ries, following actions in marginal ries and cities, global integrated development. Its breakthrough point is the large scale re-construction of energy efficiency system at customer side and customer energy network is the basis defining the value of energy network. The combination of mobile energy network and backbone energy network will be the choice of network structure.