Create a carbon reduction blueprint, and Zhengtai Xinneng ＂Zero Carbon Factory＂ was certified.

▲ The picture shows the photovoltaic parking shed of Zhengtai Xinneng Yancheng Base.

How much greenhouse gas can be reduced by building a high-standard "zero carbon factory"? The answer given by the "Zero Carbon Factory" of Zhengtai Xinneng Yancheng Base is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 42,221.37 tons, realize the use of renewable energy accounting for 69.61%, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2.34 million trees.

Recently, at the super brand season of Zhengtai Xinneng, Zhengtai Xinneng showed the layout of zero-carbon factory for the first time. Just over two months ago, Zhengtai Xinneng Yancheng Base completed the zero-carbon factory certification and officially obtained it.Tv RhineZero-carbon factory certification issued by. According to the reporter of China Energy News, this is the first zero-carbon factory of Zhengtai Xinneng, and it is alsoTv RhineThe world’s first zero-carbon factory certified in photovoltaic industry.

Relevant statistics show that there are more than 17,000 industrial parks in China at present, which contribute about 30% to the national economy. However, industrial energy consumption accounts for about 66% of the total energy consumption in China, and carbon emissions from industrial parks account for about 68% of the total national emissions. As the most basic unit of green transformation in industrial field, factory emission reduction has become the key to industrial emission reduction and carbon reduction. Under the goal of carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions, building a "zero-carbon factory" has become the key path for enterprises to seek net zero emission in the value chain and move towards zero-carbon development.

The so-called "zero-carbon factory" is to make the factory have zero carbon emission performance through technical measures such as energy saving and emission reduction and carbon credit offset in the manufacturing process. In June, 2022, the group standard "Evaluation Standard for Zero-carbon Factory" (T/CECA-G 0171-2022) was officially released and implemented. The identification of zero-carbon factory has a complete and quantifiable construction standard and evaluation rules. The assessment indicators cover six indicators, including infrastructure, intelligent information management system for energy and carbon emissions, energy and resource use, products, greenhouse gas emission reduction and carbon offset implementation.

Huang Haiyan, executive vice president and chief sustainable development officer of Zhengtai Xinneng, said that Yancheng Base, as the first "zero-carbon factory" of Zhengtai Xinneng, strictly followed the "Zero-carbon Factory Evaluation Standard" in terms of planning, design, construction, production service, system and management system. "Yancheng base can finally obtain certification by virtue of the hard power of Zhengtai Xinneng’s high starting point planning, high standard design, high automation equipment and high intelligent manufacturing."

Where is the hard power embodied?

Xue Feng, General Manager of Zhengtai Xinneng Yancheng BaseIt is said that since the upgrade project of "Zero Carbon Factory" was launched in 2022, Yancheng Base has focused on "open source" and "throttling". "Open source" refers to the creation and flexible use of more renewable energy, while "throttling" refers to improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions through various means. "Overall, the realization path of the’ zero carbon factory’ mainly focuses on improving energy efficiency, applying energy-saving technologies, using renewable energy, and adopting a series of measures such as waste heat recovery, intelligent energy management, and rooftop photovoltaic power generation." Specifically, Xue Feng introduced that on the one hand, Zhengtai Xinneng can equip the factory roof with photovoltaic power stations, build photovoltaic parking sheds, solar street lamps and other self-generating equipment, and reduce carbon emissions through renewable energy power; On the other hand, the factory upgraded the energy-saving lighting system, adopted water-saving appliances and equipment, eliminated high-energy equipment, and selected green building materials and low-energy building structures; At the same time, an intelligent information management system for energy and carbon is established to dynamically monitor and analyze energy consumption. "In addition, the factory also achieved a green electricity offset ratio of 69.6% and a carbon credit offset ratio of 65.4% by purchasing green certificates."

Based on the innate industrial characteristics of industrial energy saving and zero-carbon emission reduction, Yancheng base also has advantages in zero-carbon transformation. A total of 26,590 pieces of ASTRO high-efficiency photovoltaic modules independently developed by Zhengtai Xinneng were laid in the battery workshop, component workshop and comprehensive warehouse of Zhengtai Xinneng Yancheng Base, with a total installed capacity of about 11MW, which can meet the daily lighting needs of the factory.

▲ The picture shows the assembly workshop of Zhengtai Xinneng Yancheng Base.

In addition, the "Zero Carbon Factory" has also made efforts to reduce carbon emissions through a series of measures such as configuring photovoltaic parking sheds and implementing automated operations. Xue Feng emphasized that Zhengtai Xinneng has also built a zero-carbon intelligent information system including energy management, gas turbine power generation and waste heat utilization, photovoltaic power generation, charging piles, etc., which can carry out integrated collaborative management and control of base energy supply and use.

"The certification of the first zero-carbon factory was successfully completed, which played a demonstration role within the enterprise. In the future, we hope to lead and cultivate a number of’ zero-carbon factories’, and drive factories to actively carry out technological transformation of energy conservation and carbon reduction, application of renewable energy projects and research and development of cutting-edge low-carbon technologies, so as to truly reduce costs and increase efficiency and strive to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions. " Huang Haiyan said.

In August this year, Zhengtai Xinneng released its sustainable development strategy, and announced the road map of sustainable development with 2028 and 2035 as time nodes, and promised to achieve carbon neutrality of enterprises in 2050. Huang Haiyan said that under the guidance of this goal, Zhengtai Xinneng will focus on new technology, new energy and new ecology with high quality, high efficiency and sustainable development as the main line, and create a new format of photovoltaic industry in low-carbon life.

Huang Haiyan revealed that in addition to the steady progress of the zero-carbon factory in Yancheng base, Zhengtai Xinneng still has several zero-carbon factories under planning, and it is expected that three zero-carbon factories will be completed in 2024, reaching eight in 2028.

According to the reporter of "China Energy News", in the future, Zhengtai New Energy will combine the concept of sustainability with the integration and development of product innovation, focus on the strategic objectives on major issues such as climate change, natural resource management, labor and human rights, occupational health and safety, business ethics, supply chain management and biodiversity protection, accelerate the carbon emission reduction of products throughout their life cycle, and move towards a green new ecology.