Renewable energy accounted for 28% of global electricity generation, last year (2023), according to David Bian, Director of Huawei Digital Power Sub-Saharan Africa.
He was speaking at the Solar & Storage Live & The Future Energy Show Africa, organized by terrapin, back in March 2024.

Speaking about significant milestones, Bian said Huawei, has increased capacity by 24 Gigawatts (GW) globally last year, and the plan is to reach another 400 GW in 2024.

To achieve carbon neutrality, renewable energy needs to increase in the energy sector, from its current rate of 25% to about 85%, by 2050.

Bian said Huawei Digital Power converges bit, watt, heat, and battery technologies and is planning to build new power system energy infrastructure accordingly.

“AI will increase 500 times, and provide a significant change to the energy sector.”

Picture below of Huawei project in Saudi Arabia: Supplied

Some projects in Africa and the Middle East

Huawei constructed Africa’s biggest 540 MW- solar facility in South Africa. The project uses over 2000 high-efficiency inverters.

There is a micro-grid project in Cape Town.

Huawei has a solar-hydro hybrid ESS project in Ghana, which is reducing greenhouse emissions by 47,000 tons every year.

The first 100% clean energy city with the world’s largest photovoltaic-energy storage microgrid station, is already underway in Saudia Arabia. Constructed by Huawei, it has a big 400MV PV + 1.3GVh energy storage system.

In Gonghe County of Qinghai province, China, Huawei helped the State Power Investment Corporation build the world’s largest PV power plant with a capacity of 2.2 GW, which generates more than 4 billion kWh of green electricity every year.

Picture above of project in SA: Getty Images

Cover Picture: David Bian, Director of Huawei Digital Power Sub-Saharan Africa,  speaking at the Solar & Storage Live & The Future Energy Show Africa 2024.


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