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Africa: Huawei Calls for High-Quality Microgrid to Light Up a Greener Africa

todayOctober 30, 2024 2

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Huawei Digital Power sub-Saharan Africa is excited to announce the recent showcase of FusionSolar solutions at Nigeria Energy, that took place from

October 15 to 17, 2024, in Lagos, Nigeria.

This pivotal event brought together industry leaders, partners, and stakeholders to explore the future of solar energy and enhance collaboration in the photovoltaic energy sector.

During the energy exhibition event, Mr. Xia Hesheng, President of Huawei Sub-Saharan Africa Digital Power Business, pointed out that “In the past two years, as the cost of photovoltaic modules and energy storage has been greatly reduced, the era of “low cost solar and storage” is approaching. Photovoltaics

+ energy storage solutions (ESS) will become the most economical and universal power source, accelerating the construction of a new energy system with renewable energy as the mainstay.”

Xia Hesheng, stated that “Microgrid is the best way to solve the problem of power consumption for enterprises and power supply in rural areas. Huawei is committed to building an end-to-end microgrid solution that features high reliability, safety, and easy operation and maintenance.”

Microgrid scenarios (in addition to being affordable) have extremely high requirements for safety and reliability. Choosing a supplier that offers both safety and reliability is the primary consideration for channels and EPCs.

Mr. Xia Hesheng expanded that, in solar industry, safety should be the primary consideration in product design and project delivery. For inverter safety, Huawei uses technologies such as Smart String Level Disconnector, Smart Connector Temperature Detector, AFCI (arc-fault circuit interrupter), RSD (Rapid

Shut Down) to improve operational safety, and uses technologies such as four-level safety protection for Energy Storage Solutions (ESS): Prewarning, Detection, Isolation, Fire suppression. Currently, more and more countries’ requirements are adopting corresponding safety standards, such as AFCI.

Afterall, “Safety is the ultimate luxury.”

During the last three years, Huawei has helped shopping malls, hotels, factories, bank branches, universities, and rural areas provide stable and reliable power supply, helping reduce power consumption costs. For example, Justrite, the largest superstore chain in Nigeria, has 14 sites using Huawei’s microgrid power supply. The average monthly generation fuel saving is over 70%, and the