General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial driving force behind the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and accelerating the development of a new generation of AI is a strategic issue that determines whether China can seize the opportunities presented by this new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. The recommendations for the 15th Five-Year Plan put forward the initiatives to "fully implement the 'AI+' campaign" and "seize the commanding heights of AI industry applications".
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. has earnestly implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, pursued a comprehensive intelligence strategy, vigorously promoted the in-depth integration of AI with energy and power, driven the revolutionary leap forward in energy and power productive forces and the in-depth transformation of production relations, promoted the construction of a new energy system and a new power system through the coordination of digitalization and greening, and strived to be a pacesetter in advancing high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, building a modern industrial system, and developing new quality productive forces.
Deeply Understand the Strategic Significance of AI-Driven Energy Transformation and Firmly Seize the Historic Opportunity of AI Development
The profound transformation of energy and power and the rapid evolution of AI have intersected historically. Energy and power not only provide basic guarantees for the development of AI, but their transformation and reform process also urgently need the in-depth empowerment of AI technology.
Developing AI is a key engine for leading the energy technological revolution. Currently, global energy science and technology innovation has entered a highly active period, and a large number of emerging technologies such as renewable energy, nuclear energy, energy storage, and hydrogen energy are accelerating their iteration at an unprecedented speed. A new generation of digital technologies represented by AI is deeply integrated with energy production, transmission, storage, consumption, and energy markets, spawning a series of new smart energy technologies, models, and formats.
Developing AI is a strategic support for promoting the green transformation of energy. At present, trends such as high-proportion new energy penetration, strong uncertain fluctuations, and multi-form equipment interaction have become increasingly prominent, the grid structure has undergone profound changes, and the system is facing unprecedented challenges in terms of security and economy. It is essential to give full play to AI's advantages in deep learning capabilities, strong generalization capabilities, and complex computing, strengthen its application in various scenarios, fully empower all links of power generation, transmission, transformation, distribution, and consumption, improve the power grid's capacity to accommodate, allocate, and regulate clean energy, and strongly support the construction of a new energy system and a new power system.
Developing AI is a critical path for fostering the modern energy industry. It is necessary to use AI to drive changes in the production methods of the energy industry, the reengineering of technical paths, and the transformation of competitive advantages, break the original industrial boundaries, cultivate new industrial forms, achieve intelligent, green, and integrated development, strengthen and optimize modern energy industry clusters, promote the upgrading of the energy industry foundation and the modernization of the industrial chain, and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces.
Give Full Play to the Leading Role of Central Energy Enterprises and Actively Explore the Practical Paths for the Integrated Development of AI and Energy and Power
In recent years, China Southern Power Grid has actively explored the integrated development of AI and energy and power, seized the opportunity of building a "digital power grid", strived to use digital technologies such as AI to drive the transformation of the new power system and empower the construction of a new energy system, and formed a distinctive AI integration and development path with Southern Power Grid characteristics.
Lay a solid foundation to build a safe and controllable collaborative base for power computing power. Actively serve the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project, build a cross-regional and multi-level hierarchical high-speed computing power network covering "grid-province-edge-terminal", form a systematic layout of energy data centers, and establish a full-stack independently controllable intelligent computing cluster. Based on the advantages of being an energy core hub, innovatively propose a collaborative development path of electricity-computing-carbon, and take the lead in exploring a new model of collaborative development between power and computing power in key links such as planning, construction, dispatching, and trading.
Drive by data to build a high-quality industry model system. Strengthen the supporting elements for AI, promote the optimal allocation and efficient utilization of energy data resources, take the lead in launching the construction of a trusted data space for the southern energy industry, and actively cultivate an ecological environment for the circulation of energy data elements across entities and regions. Continuously make breakthroughs in promoting AI technological research and building vertical industry large models, and independently develop "Dawa Te", the first fully independently controllable AI large model in the power industry.
Drive by scenarios to promote the all-round and in-depth integration of AI. Establish an independently controllable AI innovation platform for the power industry, providing standardized and intensive computing power, data, and model services for all links of the industry. Build more than 350 high-value intelligent application scenarios focusing on power grid planning, intelligent dispatching, equipment inspection, and power trading, significantly improving the intelligence level and operational efficiency of the power grid. The value of AI technology is being transformed into real productive forces. The production operation model of power transmission, transformation, and distribution has been transformed, with the intelligent identification rate of equipment hidden dangers exceeding 90%. The accuracy of new energy forecasting based on AI leads the world, helping the new energy consumption rate in the southern region rank among the top in China.
Collaborate ecologically to build an open and shared industrial innovation pattern. Drive industry development with core capabilities in digital transformation, and continuously build an internal and external interactive, open and shared power AI industrial ecosystem. Jointly establish an industry AI alliance with 78 units, and take the lead in building the first national AI application pilot-scale base in the power field of the energy sector. Independently develop "Fuxi", the first fully localized power-specific main control chip, and achieve mass production. Intelligent sensing products such as "Jimu" have been applied on a large scale.
Promote the High-Quality Development of Energy and Power through the Extensive Development of AI and Make Greater Achievements in Serving the Construction of Chinese-Style Modernization
China Southern Power Grid will firmly focus on the theme of promoting high-quality development, accelerate the digital transformation driven by AI, strive to become a pioneer in AI technological breakthroughs, a leader in innovative applications, a provider of solutions, and an organizer of the industrial ecosystem in the energy and power industry, and promote AI to upgrade from an auxiliary tool to intelligent creation, advance from point-like applications to comprehensive penetration, transform from factor empowerment to paradigm change, and evolve from chain cooperation to ecological co-creation.
Strengthen the flexible and intelligent "AI+" power grid. Integrate AI into the entire process of building a new power system, promote the large-scale application of AI in scenarios such as power grid planning, engineering construction, dispatching and control, operation and maintenance, and emergency rescue, coordinate the planning and construction of power and computing infrastructure, build new energy infrastructure at a high standard, improve the system's safe, reliable, flexible, and efficient operation capabilities, and promote the optimal allocation of energy resources on a larger scale and the efficient development and utilization of clean energy.
Optimize the intelligent and innovative "AI+" services. Adhere to putting people first, deeply integrate AI into the entire chain of power supply services, create an integrated and full-scenario intelligent interactive environment, and build a full-process, interactive, and accompanying smart power consumption service system. Accelerate the creation of a modern power consumption business environment featuring convenient power handling, high-quality power supply, green power consumption, inclusive services, and coordinated supervision, cultivate new and innovative smart service formats and models with wider coverage and richer content, provide more personalized, customized, and comprehensive energy solutions, and better meet people's energy needs for a better life.
Reshape efficient and lean "AI+" operations. Drive the improvement of management efficiency through intelligence, fully integrate AI into all links of enterprise operation and management, build a new organizational model, management mechanism, and operation method adapted to human-machine collaboration, promote the efficient operation of the enterprise management system, the precise allocation of resources such as human resources, financial resources, material resources, and data, the real-time early warning of risks in all businesses and the entire industrial chain, and the integrated and coordinated connection of the entire life cycle of assets.
Deploy an interconnected and collaborative "AI+" industry. Adhere to the development direction of full-factor intelligence, promote the in-depth integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, use AI to lead the transformation of scientific research paradigms, and strengthen the efficient supply of key elements such as computing power, models, and data. Accelerate the construction of AI pilot-scale bases, build an open and shared innovation ecosystem, actively expand new business formats such as virtual power plants, vehicle-grid interaction, and electricity-carbon-computing coordination, make forward-looking arrangements for new industries such as power-specific robots and AI chips, increase strategic investment and integration in the industrial chain, and better support and serve the construction of a modern industrial system.