/PRNewswire/ — Speaking at the industry event in Munich, Steven Zhou, president of SmartPV & ESS product line at Huawei Digital Power, said the company is strategically focusing on grid-building, integrated solutions to strengthen grid stability and thereby support the integration of a high proportion of renewable energy in Europe.
Steven Zhou, President of Smart PV & ESS Product Line, Huawei Digital Power
The share of wind and solar energy in Europe is expected to reach 64% by 2030. At the same time, the power supply system is facing challenges – such as lower grid resilience and decreasing grid strength – which are due to the high complexity of deployment planning and the declining proportion of conventional synchronous generators.
In response to this, the European markets are investing more in the electricity grid, expanding the use of grid-forming BESS, developing new network codes with requirements for grid-forming properties and accelerating the change in the electricity market from pure energy arbitrage to a variety of ancillary services. Speaking at “The smarter E 2026”, Steven Zhou, president of Smart PV & ESS product line at Huawei Digital Power, said these measures are a clear signal that “future PV and BESS products must evolve into a main energy source.”
As renewable energy technologies have become a major source of energy, the industry has entered a period of intense innovation and is making the transition from individual innovations to integrated innovations. Thanks to their grid-forming capabilities, hybrid PV-BESS solutions accelerate the replacement of conventional thermal power plants. Key grid-forming functions – such as black start, inertia support and short-circuit current support – have been extensively validated under all operating conditions and across all time scales of the power system, with the technical system becoming increasingly refined.
In his speech, Zhou described how Huawei’s strategic direction has changed in response to the evolution of the power grid. “Back in 2020, we introduced LUNA, the industry’s first intelligent string energy storage system,” said Zhou. “LUNA, named after the moon, was designed to watch over the night and ensure that clean power no longer ends when the sun sets. And as you know, our solar inverter is named SUN. Rooted in the sun, it energizes the day.” Zhou said the role of energy storage has been redefined to ensure the stability of the entire power grid and announced that Huawei has officially evolved the LUNA brand to LUTERRA. “The name LUTERRA is derived from ‘Terra’ – the earth. Our path leads from lighting the night to protecting our planet.”
In line with the company’s new smart PV strategy, Huawei leverages its strengths in integrating 4T (bit, watt, thermal and battery) basic technologies to continuously drive innovation and accelerate the construction of a modern power system with solutions for all user segments and application scenarios. In his speech at “The Smarter E 2026”, Zhou also presented selected C&I projects in Europe that use the company’s one-fits-all solution that integrates PV, BESS, electric vehicle charging stations and AI-based deployment planning. For example, the AHS business park in Germany achieved a 10% increase in sales after just two years of operating a one-fits-all solution from Huawei, while in Spain, according to Zhou, “the electricity costs of a Carrefour supermarket have decreased by almost 40% and the payback period is only five years.”
Huawei is preparing for the further development of the electricity market. Zhou said, “In the future, BESS business models will become more diverse…Thanks to flexible hardware and continuously evolving software, Huawei’s one-match-all platform can adapt to different business models and maximize benefits.”
As demonstration projects around the world – from Spain to Mongolia and from Germany to the Philippines – demonstrate the added value of Huawei’s grid-building technology, Zhou said the company’s core competencies will “strengthen our Smart PV and BESS solutions across all application scenarios to provide maximum benefits to our customers while improving grid stability with a high share of renewable energy.”
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