On October 30, as new energy vehicles began to charge one after another, the "Optical Storage and Charging" integrated energy station was officially put into operation. It is a comprehensive integrated energy station after Changzhou public stations and dedicated bus stations. It is the first time for the application of the energy station model in Changzhou enterprises and institutions.

The energy station is located in the parking lot of the South Plant of Zhongtian Steel at No. 2 Zhongwu Avenue, Changzhou City. The construction took half a year to complete. The station is equipped with 14 sets of 160-kilowatt sponge storage and charging cabinets and a 1.3-megawatt photovoltaic carport. When operating at full power, it can meet the changing needs of social vehicles and ZHONGTIAN employees' new energy vehicles more than 400,000 times throughout the year.

 "Considering the need for further optimization of the enterprise's energy structure, we have added photovoltaics, energy storage, and energy management and control systems to the charging piles to achieve comprehensive utilization of electric energy." Cheng Jun, general manager of Jiangsu Tianmu Lake Electric Technology Co., Ltd. introduced, through comprehensive management and control of photovoltaics and energy storage can achieve virtual capacity expansion and peak-avoiding and valley-filling 100% of photovoltaic power generation can also be consumed locally, further reducing carbon emissions and energy costs in the production process, achieving environmental protection and a win-win economic benefit.

The project can take advantage of low electricity price periods to store electrical energy in the battery system. The stored electrical energy can be used to charge charging equipment during the day. At the same time, the energy storage system serves as a backup power supply to ensure normal charging of vehicles when the power grid fails. Wu Xianyang, executive deputy general manager and director of the Environmental Energy Department of Zhongtian Special Steel Company, said that the station can provide 970,000 kilowatt-hours of green electricity every year, which is equivalent to saving 295 tons of standard coal every year compared with thermal power with the same power generation capacity. It reduces carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 789 tons and saves a large amount of freshwater resources.

Achieving green and low-carbon transformation is a major measure to implement Xi Jinping’s Thoughts on Ecological Civilization and is a key link in achieving high-quality development. Zhongtian Iron and Steel has always regarded green development and environmental protection development as the enterprise's bottom line and has invested more than 20 billion yuan in implementing more than 190 energy-saving, emission reduction, and recycling projects. Currently, Zhongtian is accelerating the construction of "green electricity", planning and deploying photovoltaic power generation projects, wind power generation projects, and hydrogen metallurgy projects in three major bases in Changzhou, Nantong, and Huai'an, implementing new development concepts, and helping to achieve "double carbon" target.