On October 18, two things related to Huawei are worth paying attention to, one is that Huawei officially announced that it has successfully won the world's largest energy storage project "Saudi Red Sea New City Energy Storage Project", with a scale of 1300MWh; second, according to Zhitong Finance APP, Nokia announced that it has become the only 5G supplier of T-2, one of the largest telecom operators in Slovenia, and obtained frequencies in the 2100 MHz and 2300 MHz frequency bands.
Nokia, Ericsson and other former Huawei competitors, taking advantage of Huawei's 5G blockage overseas to harvest 5G orders, but did not succeed, Huawei found another way, in the energy storage project that no one thought of won the world's largest order.
In the face of Huawei's ability to show overseas, many people may say: Huawei is a real cow! Indeed, Huawei's body always feels that there is always a strong vitality, not only from the bold words of founder Ren Zhengfei and the team, but also from Huawei's initial switch to the later mobile phone, and then to today's smart cars, Hongmeng systems, energy storage projects and so on.
In layman's terms, Huawei's team is a wolf team, always able to inadvertently bring the miracle of willow dark flowers and bright villages.
Europe is the center of Huawei's overseas telecommunications market, or 3G and 4G network, Huawei has a strong influence in the European market, from 2001, Huawei opened the way to sea, the European market at that time was Nokia and Ericsson's world, but in 2005, because of Huawei's entry, the entire European telecom 3G market pattern changed.
How Huawei got the first order in the European market, here is a small story.
At that time, the Dutch operator Telfort wanted to build a 3G network with a wider coverage, but Telfort's computer room was not large, so it needed a small networking solution that took into account the coverage, naturally, Telfort successively found Nokia and Ericsson, but because the volume was too small, it was rejected, Huawei seized the opportunity at this time, providing Telfort with a distributed base station solution to meet the needs of operators, thus obtaining the first order in the European market.
There are one and two, Huawei in Europe after tearing a hole, with the help of good service and landing solutions, won the reputation, Huawei's share in the European market is getting bigger and bigger, Huawei has also carried out in-depth cooperation with Italy, Poland, Spain, Portugal and other countries, from 3G to 5G, Huawei's 5G orders in the European market are also a natural success, more points of blossoming.
Huawei's strength today is largely due to the fact that Huawei has trained a skill through the training of overseas markets, and more importantly, it has a global vision that many enterprises did not have at that time, because Huawei saw farther, and the global market was earlier and deeper, and Huawei also had the experience of competing with global telecom giants.
So Huawei is willing to spend a lot of money on research and development every year, willing to apply for more 5G patents, but also willing to lay out 6G in advance, the importance of technology is now self-evident for a company, but the company's judgment of the trend is also very critical, Huawei is because of the personal experience will gradually sublimate these experiences into strategy, has been implemented to this day.
Why can Huawei win the big order for overseas energy storage? This is not luck, nor is it accidental, but the strength that Huawei has accumulated over the years.
In fact, in August last year, Ericsson had signed a 5G commercial contract with Slovenian Telecom, which also helped Ericsson's 5G commercial contract reach a record 100.
In February last year, Huawei's 5G commercial contracts have reached 91, the influence and shipments are far greater than Ericsson and Nokia, but for well-known reasons, Huawei had to let go of the European 5G market, this market gap will undoubtedly be harvested by Nokia, Ericsson and other companies, but it is clear that this will mean the restructuring of the original 5G solution, the cost is naturally increased.
In fact, I personally believe that overseas markets, including Europe, play two values for Huawei:
First, train Huawei's talents through overseas markets. Many of Huawei's talents today have grown up from overseas, the most typical example is the current consumer business president Yu Chengdong, before making mobile phones, Yu Chengdong was responsible for the European market, and pushed Huawei's distributed base station and achieved great success, just because of the international vision, Yu Chengdong later made Mate and P series mobile phones, the first and Leica cooperation pioneered, launched the first dual camera mobile phone, led the trend of today's mobile phone photography technology, and promoted the influence of Huawei mobile phones to European countries.
Second, enhance Huawei's brand value with the help of overseas markets and integrate with advanced global communication technologies. It is precisely because of its experience in dealing with international communications giants such as Nokia that Huawei recognizes the importance of globalization, 5G communication networks and brands, so when other mobile phone brands are still competing in Southeast Asia, Huawei has carried out market expansion in Europe, and the advantages of Huawei mobile phones in the European market have continued until 2020.
Finally, briefly talk about the energy storage order won by Huawei this time, many people may not be clear about what this "energy storage project" is?
On October 16, the 2021 Global Digital Energy Summit was held in Dubai, during which Huawei Digital Energy Technology Co., Ltd. and Shandong Electric Power Construction Third Engineering Co., Ltd. signed a contract for the Energy Storage Project in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea New City, and after signing the contract, the two sides will work together to build a global clean energy and green economy center.
New energy to replace traditional petrochemical energy is the trend of future energy development, taking Europe as an example, by 2020 renewable energy contributed 38% of the electricity of EU countries, more than fossil fuels, but the problem of new energy is how to store electric energy, and finally concentrated on demand release, which gave birth to a lot of business opportunities and investment opportunities, Huawei new energy company is to seize this "energy storage" trend to obtain this super order.
The so-called "energy storage", literally understood is "storage energy", the current traditional electric energy of new energy has been carried out in the world, such as our common wind, hydroelectric power generation is a pollution-free green energy, but compared to traditional fossil fuel power generation, in terms of stability fluctuations and other aspects also need to be improved, even if it is traditional fossil fuel power generation, there is also a waste, supply and demand imbalance, then in order to rationally use new energy and traditional electricity, energy storage technology and facilities are very critical, with energy storage technology and equipment, It can greatly save the cost of electricity, as well as meet the power supply needs of resource-scarce areas, and more importantly, it can rationally allocate electricity to achieve the effect of "making the best use of electricity".
The Saudi Red Sea New City is positioned as a "new generation of cities", the future of the city's electricity will come from new energy, then energy storage is particularly important, because of the uniqueness of Saudi Arabia's energy structure, the need for a world-renowned company like Huawei to provide energy storage solutions.
Huawei to win the energy storage project, for the promotion of the development of the energy storage industry plays a vital role, new energy, energy storage is to achieve human energy development and utilization of renewable resources, is a major event for the benefit of human development, and this significance, Europe's 5G orders are not so important, however, Huawei's signing this time, but also proves that Huawei is indeed a global vision and social pattern of the enterprise.