数字化是实现能源工业净零目标的关键

据天然气加工新闻网2022年3月11日报道，在美国休斯敦举行的CERAWeek会议关于零碳技术的讨论中，专家们一致认为，数字化是提供实时解决方案的必要条件，因为能源工业的目标是实现净零排放目标。 

法国施耐德电气公司首席战略和可持续发展官、施耐德电气公司执行委员会成员Gwenaelle Avice-Huet表示，围绕能源生产和消费的数字化和行为变化为整个行业的能效提供了机会。

Avice-Hue 表示，“我们一直在与一家叫做Autograde的公司合作，优化能源系统和优化网络。 从根本上说，你拥有许多正在生产能源的资产。 你拥有我们正在考虑的大型资产，如煤炭、天然气或风能和太阳能等可再生能源，你还拥有分散式能源。”“能源转型的目标是提高能源使用的效率。 我们不仅要考虑生产，还要考虑能源的使用和我们消耗能源的方式。这就是我们在Autograde公司为公用事业部门所做的，这样他们就可以拥有分散式的能源资源，同时，人们希望与专家合作进行能源管理。” 

虽然云数据存储已经使实时解决方案在整个行业得到应用，但专家们还讨论了更广泛范围内数字化的好处，包括安全与保障、氢等能源载体的商业化、 提高旨在减少碳排放的开发项目和合作伙伴关系的进程速度。 

微软公司能源行业副总裁达里尔·威利斯表示，在与能源公司讨论数字化时，考虑运营的连续性和最小化风险是重中之重。

“微软公司正在做的不仅仅是云计算，它真正考虑的是实现净零需要哪些技术。 我们有自己的内部净零雄心，但我们也意识到，如果世界其他国家不在2050年或更早之前实现净零，对微软公司来说，到2030年前实现净零还不够好，”威利斯如是说。“我们下了一个很大的赌注，我们创造了自己的旅程，致力于碳捕获和存储。 对于一家科技公司来说，参与这个项目是非常不寻常的，但我们在这个领域与挪威政府、道达尔公司、壳牌公司和Equinor都是合作伙伴。 我们是这个项目的技术供应商，这个项目将在2024年上线； 斯伦贝谢公司还参与了一些用于勘探石油和天然气的地下技术的应用。 同样的技术也将用于将二氧化碳输送到废弃的储油层中。 这是一个非常令人兴奋的领域。 我们不相信在没有CCS的情况下，你能在2050年或更早之前实现净零碳排放。”

专家们还讨论了利用技术实现氢经济战略的重要性，以及将这些技术规模化的努力。  

威利斯说：“我们与一些公司进行了一些有意义的对话，他们正在围绕氢经济制定战略，无论是绿色氢还是蓝色氢。” “公用事业公司甚至在考虑如何将氢气融入到他们的电网运营中，因此我们参与了很多有意义的对话，因为我们希望确保这些技术能够商业化和规模化。这是两大障碍，我相信数据将成为这两大领域的基础，也是微软公司可以发挥优势的领域。”  

斯伦贝谢公司新能源执行副总裁阿肖克·贝拉尼表示，重型汽车可能是第一个广泛使用氢燃料的市场，但该行业有必要考虑整个价值链，以加快氢燃料的商业化过程。

贝拉尼说，“燃料电池行业和电解槽行业必须继续前进，才能生产这些产品。 我认为欧洲在这方面做得很好，他们努力发展整个价值链，包括氢的用户市场。”“当我们试图将电解槽工业化时，我们与阿塞洛-米塔尔建立了合作关系，将其用于钢铁行业，或用于水泥行业的固井公司，或用于可再生能源的转化，从而可以出口等等。”

李峻 编译自 天然气加工新闻网

原文如下：

Digitalization is key in industry pursuit of net-zero

Panelists agreed that digitalization is necessary to provide real-time solutions as the energy aims toward net-zero goals during a discussion on technologies for zero carbon at CERAWeek.

Gwena?lle Avice-Huet, Schneider Electric Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer and Member of the Schneider Electric Executive Committee, said digitalization and behavioral changes surrounding energy production and consumption provides opportunities for energy efficiency throughout the industry.

“We’ve been working with a company called Autograde to optimize the energy system and to optimize the network. Basically, you have numbers of assets that are producing energy. You have the big assets that we are thinking about (e.g.) coal, gas, or renewables like wind and solar, and you also have distributed energy resources,” Avice-Hunt said. “Energy transition is thinking to become more efficient in the way we use energy. It’s not only thinking about production, it’s also thinking about the usages and the way we consume energy. That’s what we did with Autograde for the utilities sectors so they could have in-hand distributed energy resources, and at the same time, people wanting to cooperate with an expert to have energy management.”

While cloud data storage has allowed for real-time solutions to be applied across the industry, panelists also discussed the benefits of digitalization on a wider scale, including safety and security, commercialization of energy carriers like hydrogen, and increasing process speeds on developing projects and partnerships aiming to reduce carbon emissions.

Darryl Willis, Corporate Vice President Energy Industry at Microsoft, said that considering continuity of operations and minimizing risks are top priority when discussing digitalization with energy companies.

“In terms of what Microsoft is doing just beyond the cloud, it’s really thinking about what technologies are required to get to net-zero. We’ve got our own internal net-zero ambitions, but we also realize that it’s not going to be good enough for Microsoft to get to net-zero by 2030 if the rest of the world does not do it by 2050 or sooner,” said Willis. “A big bet that we’ve made is we’ve created our own journey to work on carbon capture and storage. And very unusual for a technology company to be involved with this but we’re partners in this space with the government of Norway, Total, Shell, and Equinor. We are the technology provider for this project that will go live in 2024; Schlumberger is also involved in helping to use some of the subsurface technology that explores for oil and gas. That same technology will be used to deliver carbon dioxide into abandoned reservoirs. That’s an area that’s really exciting. We do not believe you can get to net-zero in 2050 or sooner without CCS.”

Panelists also discussed the importance of utilizing technology to strategize the hydrogen economy and efforts to bring these technologies to scale.

“We’ve been having some interesting conversations with companies as they develop strategies around the hydrogen economy, whether it’s green hydrogen or blue hydrogen,” Willis said. “Utility companies are even thinking about how to integrate hydrogen into their grid operations so there is a lot of interesting conversations we are involved in because we want to ensure that some of these technologies are commercialized and able to scale. Those are two big barriers, and those are the things that I believe data will be fundamental to, and areas where Microsoft can play to its strengths.”

Ashok Belani, Schlumberger New Energy Executive Vice President, said that heavy-duty vehicles could be the first market that creates widespread hydrogen usage, but it is necessary for the industry to consider the entire value chain to speed up the commercialization process.

“The fuel cell industry and the electrolyzer industry must move on to be able to produce these products. The way we have tried to approach it, and I think Europe is doing quite well in that they try to develop the whole value chain, including the user markets of hydrogen,” Belani said. “When we are trying to industrialize the electrolyzer, we have a relationship with Arcelor Mittal for using it in the steel industry or cementing companies for using it in the cement industry, or using it in transforming renewable power so that it can be exported and so on.”