In January 2025 Huawei released the Top 10 Smart PV Trends for 2025.
Trend 1, “light wind storage generator” accelerates photovoltaic to become the main source of energy
Optical wind storage generator has completed from the theoretical research, product development, demonstration testing to the scale of application of the comprehensive practice, is an important support for the new type of power system, accelerate the photovoltaic from the “supplemental power” to the “main power”.
Trend 2: Full-scene network construction
Energy storage is ubiquitous, and network construction is ubiquitous, supporting the new type of power system to be stable for a long time. As an important power source for grid support, energy storage plays a key role in the generation, transmission, distribution, and use of the new power system; the energy storage network realizes stable control of voltage, frequency, and power angle, allowing the new power system to operate stably for a long time.
Trend 3: from the core to the network energy storage security
Energy storage safety is the cornerstone of a higher standard of protection system to promote the high-quality development of the industry. Energy storage safety needs to establish a high standard “from the core to the network” protection system to realize the energy storage equipment from the “fire does not spread” to “smoke does not explode”, energy storage system from the grid failure of the “Self-isolation” to ‘self-recovery’, to ensure the safety and reliability of the whole life cycle.
Trend 4: Intelligent life cycle
Full life cycle intelligence enables new energy power plants to move towards “auto-pilot”. In the future, more than GW-level power stations will continue to emerge, “large-scale, harsh environment, complex operation” has become a prominent challenge, through the play of 5G, cloud computing, the Internet of Things and other technologies, so that each future power station will become a digital power station, the real realization of digital, intelligent, unmanned management.
Trend 5: high frequency and high density
Third-generation semiconductor superimposed on digital technology, continue to enhance the power density of power electronic converters, and promote the quality and efficiency of the optical storage system. It is expected that in the next three to five years, photovoltaic inverter and energy storage PCS power density will be increased by more than 30%, further promoting the quality and efficiency of photovoltaic systems.
Trend 6: high voltage and high reliability
High voltage continues to reduce the cost of photovoltaic storage system kWh, and high reliability continues to improve system availability. Through technological innovation to improve equipment reliability; through real-time monitoring of operating parameters, the equipment can accurately perceive and actively protect against failures, so as to achieve “no perception of failure”; based on AI predictive maintenance and dual-level power architecture innovation, it can realize early warning of failures and early protection of the system to ensure high reliability of the system and support the safe and stable operation of the power grid.
Trend 7: 100% new energy microgrid
New energy microgrids are both economical and stable, and have become the first choice for powerless and power-scarce areas around the world. Stable network, flexible control, intelligent scheduling of the three-tier architecture system, as well as the rapid development of optical storage technology and cost reductions to make 100% new energy micro-grids a reality, so that the powerless, power-shortage areas from the planning of electricity to the flexibility of electricity.
Trend 8: Optical storage and charging synergy
Optical storage and charging synergy to enhance the flexibility of the distribution network, accelerate the deployment of green power industry. In the future, the cooperative management of optical storage and charging can improve the certainty of power generation and load forecasting, give full play to the complementary effects of distributed photovoltaic and adjustable charging loads, and at the same time improve the balancing power of the distribution network, realizing the balance of power and electricity on the grid in the local balance, the balance of the vicinity, and the balance of the inter-region, and accelerating the industry's deployment of green power.
Trend 9: Energy Community Sharing
From self-generation and self-consumption to community sharing, realizing family green power cycle mutual benefit. In the future, when families use electricity, energy will be aggregated from individual families to community-based aggregation, and power sharing will be realized in the community to achieve independent management of regional energy; community power can also participate in the power trading of the virtual power plant, which will not only enhance the stability of the regional power grid, but also allow more families to realize the cycle of green power for the mutual benefit of the energy cycle.
Trend 10: Flexible Adaptation of All Business Models
An integrated platform can be adapted to diversified business models, which will continue to bring higher returns. The future energy storage system should have a flexible architecture design, based on a set of hardware configuration, through a high degree of integration of hardware and software, to support flexible expansion, smooth evolution, applied to a variety of business models; at the same time, can be open for sharing, docking power market transactions, and ultimately become a full business model flexible adaptation of the energy storage system, and more effective support for the development of the new power system.