On May 24th, the "16th Global Photovoltaic Frontier Technology Conference Theme Forum" of SNEC 2023 was grandly held in Shanghai. Top solar experts from around the world brought the latest views and cutting-edge information on the development of the photovoltaic industry. She Haifeng, Vice President of Longi Green Energy, was invited to attend the conference and exchanged views and prospects with everyone on the topic of energy equity under the global energy transition.
Currently, there are significant differences in per capita energy consumption levels among countries worldwide, with the top 20% of economies consuming approximately 80% of the world's energy. At the same time, about 11% of the global population without electricity still lives in darkness, and about one-third of the population cannot use clean energy for cooking. Energy poverty directly affects local economic development and the improvement of people's quality of life. On the other hand, the uneven distribution and limited affordability of global petrochemical energy resources also constrain the realization of energy equity on a global scale.
It is worth looking forward to that with the deepening of global carbon neutrality goals, clean energy represented by photovoltaics will gradually become the backbone of the global energy structure transformation. Especially with the continuous improvement of technology and manufacturing attributes, the cost competitiveness of photovoltaics continues to rise, rapidly driving the process of energy transformation. Looking to the future, a new round of energy revolution dominated by new energy will accelerate the realization of global energy equity.