Huawei says it has demonstrated its commitment to Africa’s energy transition as it showcases the full range of its latest solar PV and green home and business solutions at the Solar Power Africa Conference, currently underway in Cape Town.
In his keynote address at the conference, Xia Hesheng, the President of Huawei Digital Power for the sub-Saharan Africa region, pointed out that “carbon neutrality” has become a global consensus. Low carbonisation, digitalisation and intelligence will be deterministic factors in the next 30 or 40 years, he added.
However, digitalisation and intelligence use computing power that consumes a huge amount of electricity. This is driving the urgency for the development of clean energy, making renewable energy the major energy resource.
Hesheng says that Africa urgently needs solar energy to address its energy challenges. “Worsening load shedding and rising energy costs are seriously impacting our lives, productivity, and ability to engage meaningfully in economic activity,” he said.
“Huawei believes that what it calls “4T” Technologies (watT, heaT, baTtery and biT) will drive the development of Africa’s renewable energy. Over its 25 years of operating in sub-Saharan Africa, Huawei has developed a deep understanding of the region’s energy and technology needs. We are committed to utilise Huawei's digital power energy technologies to build a better Africa and bring clean energy to more people, families, and organisations,” continued Hesheng.
Huawei called on every organisation to take action to transform from energy consumers to energy producers.
Xia illustrated how Huawei itself is doing so, using two examples from its work in South Africa. The first is Huawei’s Johannesburg campus, where all 18 buildings and parking garages are covered with solar panels, supporting a solar system which provides 1500 kWh/day. Another example is the Waterkloof Winery in Cape Town, where the company, with a local partner, installed a cluster of solar panels on the winery's roof which generates 1100 kWh/day for the winery.
“We are happy to see that more enterprises, organisations, and families are changing from being energy consumers to energy producers. We want to use this occasion [the conference] to call on more stakeholders to join us in this great transformation. Let’s use our abundant natural resource, sunshine, to address today's energy challenges, and in so doing, contribute to a carbon neutral future,” concluded Hesheng.
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