Welcome to the Innovation Center Shenzhen

The Innovation Center Shenzhen has developed a solution to enable comprehensive lifecycle planning, design, and techno-economic assessment for complex distributed energy systems. It includes rich pre- and post-processing functions and generic component models and integrates popular meteorological databases and advanced mathematical optimization solvers. Meanwhile, leveraging Siemens Energy's technical expertise in power and industry sectors, as well as its engineers' extensive project experience, the Innovation Center Shenzhen can provide customers with integrated energy system planning and consulting services. 

The energy system design solution builds a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model based on the resource, component techno-economic parameters, cost models, historical load profiles, etc. of the project site. With the total annualized cost, or levelized cost, or carbon emissions as the objective, it solves for the optimal solution including components portfolio, capacity configuration, scheduling plan, and economic evaluation results, at any time resolution (e.g., 15 mins or 1 hour) within a user-defined time range (e.g., 8760 hours annually).

This solution provides the following typical component models, covering integrated energy scenarios of electricity, cooling, heating, hydrogen, etc..

• Energy source models, e.g., wind, PV, electricity grid, heating grid.
• Energy storage models, e.g., battery, thermal storage, hydrogen storage.
• Energy conversion models, e.g., electrolyzer, fuel cell, ammonia & methanol synthesis, heat pump, gas turbine.
• Energy sink models, e.g., electric, cooling, heating, hydrogen loads.

Power-to-X systems, such as green hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol, are typical energy systems characterized by long processes, high complexity, and the coupling of multiple energy forms. During the early design and operational phases of these systems, it is necessary to balance the fluctuations of wind and solar energy with the continuous and stable production of chemical synthesis, as well as to address conflicts related to project economics and green certification.

To tackle these challenges, the Shenzhen Innovation Center has developed solutions for “Energy System Design Optimization” and “Integrated Control and Scheduling” tailored for Power-to-X application scenarios.

In the early design phase of Power-to-X projects, with the support of energy system planning and design software, full-flow modeling, capacity configuration optimization, carbon emission intensity accounting, and full lifecycle financial accounting are employed to select the technically and economically optimal system design scheme and to support the Financial Investment Decision.

During the commissioning and operational phase of Power-to-X projects, Siemens Energy’s integrated control and dispatch system enables full-process collaborative control of wind power, photovoltaics, energy storage, electrolyzers, and chemical synthesis. The optimization dispatch module can generate real-time day-ahead and intraday optimization scheduling strategies based on wind and solar forecasting data and production plans, ensuring the safe, stable, and efficient operation of the Power-to-X system.