This topic provides an overview of Energy Expert and describes its common scenarios.
Overview
Energy Expert is developed by Alibaba Cloud as an application service for carbon management and energy consumption optimization in response to the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) proposition and carbon neutrality strategy. Based on big data computing and AI technologies, Energy Expert helps enterprises calculate carbon emissions and product carbon footprints in a scientific manner, develop solutions to reduce energy consumption and carbon footprints, and plan ways to achieve carbon neutrality. Alibaba Cloud cooperates with authoritative accreditation bodies to provide online certification services and collaborates with financial institutions to provide green financial and carbon financial services for enterprises that use Energy Expert. Energy Expert also propels the integration of the inclusive emission reduction mechanism and the daily lives of people. This helps map the carbon emissions of communities and create personal carbon accounts. This also drives the establishment of people-oriented low-carbon communities and low-carbon campuses.
Common scenarios
Green buildings: Energy Expert focuses on the carbon emissions and energy management of buildings and provides integrated solutions for enterprises that reside in commercial buildings. For example, Energy Expert offers solutions to energy management and consumption optimization, adoption of clean energy, carbon emission accounting, setting of carbon emission reduction goals, carbon emission reduction plans, carbon emission monitoring and analysis, and inclusive emission reduction operations and green marketing for customers.
Industrial parks: To fulfill the requirements of carbon neutrality, cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, and green transmission, Energy Expert provides integrated services for industrial parks, including regulation of energy and carbon emissions, enterprise-oriented services, energy management, and energy conservation and emission reduction.
High energy-consuming enterprises: For high energy-consuming industries and conglomerates, Energy Expert provides intelligent energy management and optimization services based on the source-grid-load-storage interaction. Energy Expert also provides integrated carbon services based on energy-related data, such as the carbon accounting of organizations at all levels, carbon footprint calculation of products, setting of carbon emission reduction goals, and monitoring and tracking of carbon emissions. Energy Expert helps enterprises promote energy conservation and carbon reduction and achieve green development by using digitalization.
Retail industry: Energy Expert provides online accounting and certification of product carbon footprints, and certification of green products, green stores, and low-carbon and less-plastic products. This helps enterprises develop green products and form the mindset for green business and low-carbon brands.
Green campus: Energy Expert provides solutions to build carbon neutral campuses and implement inclusive emission reduction operations on campuses. To build carbon neutral campuses, Energy Expert provides services to adopt clean energy, optimize energy management, perform carbon emission accounting, achieve carbon neutrality, and obtain certification of carbon neutrality with a few clicks. To implement inclusive emission reduction operations on campuses, Energy Expert offers capabilities in a closed-loop system that includes the convergence of data on student behavior from multiple clients, accounting for emission reduction, management of reward points, and reward point redemption.