During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the construction of new energy infrastructure, the promotion of energy revolution, and the creation of smart energy systems have become the core work in the energy field. On February 26, China Huaneng Group and Baidu Inc signed a memorandum of Cooperation at Huaneng headquarters to jointly promote the deep integration of digital economy and energy and power industry.

In the future, the two sides will give full play to their respective strengths, carry out multi-level and multi-field cooperation in information technology and digital technology, jointly promote the construction of a new generation of automated and intelligent financial sharing platform, and realize digital, networked and intelligent development in providing energy industry data services to society. The combination of traditional energy giants and technology giants will accelerate the pace of intelligent upgrading of China's energy industry.

Deng Jianling, general manager and Deputy Party Secretary of China Huaneng Group Company, Wang Yihua, Party member and Chief accountant, Wang Haifeng, Chief Technology Officer of Baidu, Yang Zhaoming, Vice President of Baidu Intelligent Cloud, and Xu Jing, Vice president of Baidu attended the signing ceremony. Wang Yihua and Yang Zhaoming signed the agreement on behalf of both parties.

Before the signing ceremony, Wang and his delegation visited the exhibition hall of Huaneng and held talks on further strengthening communication and deepening cooperation.

Deng Jianling welcomed the arrival of Wang Haifeng and his delegation, and introduced the development history of Huaneng and the strategic planning of the 14th Five-Year Plan, focusing on the digital development plan of Huaneng.

Deng Jianling said, "Promoting the deep integration of the digital economy and the energy and electric power industry, and further releasing the value of power big data is of great significance to ensure national energy security and facilitate the high-quality development of the industry. Huaneng will be digitized as during the period of "difference" to promote the company by the key of energy production to the production of a service-oriented transformation, are open to the capital in accordance with, open to the market, open to the users "open three" principle, established a group level digital platform, to provide society with Shared data services on the basis of the energy industry.

Baidu, as China's leading high-tech company, is one of the important partners, Huaneng is hoped that both sides in the memorandum signed as an opportunity to give full play to their respective advantages, to further deepen the strategic cooperation, enrich the large data, such as artificial intelligence in the field of energy power application scenarios, to develop digital economy new kinetic energy."

As the leading artificial intelligence enterprise with the earliest investment, the strongest technology and the most complete layout in China, Baidu is building a new AI infrastructure based on its full stack, leading artificial intelligence technology capabilities and rich industrial practice experience.

"China's economy is shifting to a stage of high-quality development," said Wang Haifeng, CTO of Baidu. "Artificial intelligence is a new driving force and engine for high-quality economic development."

Energy industry as an important part of the national economy, its intelligent construction degree, directly related to the national economy and social intelligence level. It is hoped that Huaneng will give full play to its leading position in the energy industry and its advantages in rich industry scenarios, and Baidu will make full use of its technological advantages in artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing to strengthen all-round cooperation and support the digitalization and intelligent upgrading of the energy industry.

Since its inception, Baidu has been implementing the concept of green environmental protection and energy saving into its technological innovation and operation, and is the pioneer and leader of green data centers in China. Baidu Yangquan Cloud Computing Center uses AI to realize intelligent operation and maintenance. It can grasp its own operation conditions more timely, quickly and comprehensively, realize intelligent power supply and intelligent heat dissipation, and ensure the low-energy and high-performance operation of the data center, which is more green and energy-saving.

Baidu Intelligent Cloud also delivers smart energy solutions to the energy industry. At present, it has reached strategic cooperation with the State Grid, China Southern Power Grid, petrochina, China Power Investment Corporation, China General Nuclear Power Corporation and other leading enterprises in the energy industry, and continues to explore the digitalization and intelligence of energy production, management, dispatching and other links with its partners. To provide users with more efficient, cleaner and low-carbon energy services.

In the future, Baidu will combine Huaneng to build a financial center, helping Huaneng R&D financial Shared platform, a new generation of automatic and intelligent building automation industry goods fusion of modern accounting factory and intelligent digital system, the free exchange of energy with voluntary transactions commercial platform, the energy industry professional commercial database, And modern energy SaaS (software as a service) service system to serve society.

At present, the country vigorously layout of new infrastructure, Baidu intelligent cloud "based on cloud computing, artificial intelligence as the starting point, focus on the important track" as the strategy, to form a unique competitive advantage of "cloud intelligence integrated".

Baidu Intelligent Cloud takes the lead in building AI native cloud computing architecture in the industry to help enterprises quickly "on the cloud", and at the same time to all walks of life output Baidu brain leading technology, so that enterprises can be convenient and efficient access to AI ability. Baidu Intelligent Cloud hopes to join hands with more partners in the energy industry, accelerate the construction of smart energy systems, and promote China's energy industry to move quickly toward the direction of networking, intelligence, integration, cleanliness and diversification.

“十四五”期间，建设新型能源基础设施，推进能源革命，打造智慧能源系统成为能源领域的核心工作。2月26日，中国华能集团与百度公司在华能总部签署《合作备忘录》，共同推动数字经济和能源电力产业深度融合。

双方未来将充分发挥各自优势，在信息技术、数字技术等方面开展多层次多领域合作，共同推动新一代自动化、智能化财务共享平台建设，在为社会提供能源行业数据服务方面实现数字化、网络化、智能化发展。传统能源巨头与科技巨头的携手，将加快中国能源行业智能化升级步伐。

中国华能集团公司总经理、党组副书记邓建玲，党组成员、总会计师王益华，百度首席技术官王海峰，百度智能云副总裁杨兆明，百度副总裁徐菁出席签字仪式。王益华、杨兆明分别代表双方在协议上签字。

签字仪式前，王海峰一行参观了华能展厅，双方就进一步加强沟通、深化合作进行了会谈。

邓建玲对王海峰一行的到来表示欢迎，并介绍了华能发展历史和“十四五”战略规划有关情况，重点介绍了华能数字化发展规划。

邓建玲说：“推动数字经济与能源电力产业深度融合，进一步释放电力大数据价值，对于保障国家能源安全、助力行业高质量发展具有重要意义。华能将数字化作为“十四五”期间推动公司由能源生产型向生产服务型转型的重要抓手，正在按照向资本开放、向市场开放、向用户开放“三个开放”原则，探索构建集团级数字化大平台，为社会提供以共享为基础的能源行业数据服务。

百度公司作为中国顶尖的高科技公司，是华能的重要合作伙伴，希望双方以此次备忘录签署为契机，充分发挥各自优势，进一步深化战略合作，不断丰富大数据、人工智能等在能源电力领域的应用场景，共同打造数字经济新动能。”

作为国内最早投入、技术最强、布局最完整的人工智能领军企业，百度正在依托全栈、领先的人工智能技术能力和丰富的产业实践经验打造新型AI基础设施。

百度CTO王海峰表示：中国经济正在转向高质量发展阶段，人工智能是驱动经济高质量发展的新动能、新引擎。

能源行业作为国民经济的重要组成部分，其智能化建设程度，直接关系到国民经济和社会智能水平。希望华能充分发挥领先的能源行业地位和丰富的行业场景优势，百度充分利用人工智能、大数据、云计算等技术优势，加强全方位合作，支持能源行业数字化、智能化升级。

从建立之初起，百度就一直将绿色环保节能的理念贯彻于公司技术创新及运营之中，是中国绿色数据中心开创者和引领者。百度阳泉云计算中心采用AI实现智能运维，更及时、快速、全面地掌握自身运营状况，实现智能供电、智能散热，确保数据中心低能耗高性能运行，更加绿色节能。

百度智能云还将智慧能源解决方案输送到能源行业，目前已经与国家电网、南方电网、中国石油、国家电投、中广核集团等能源行业头部企业达成战略合作，与合作伙伴不断探索能源生产、管理、调度等环节的数字化和智能化，为用户提供更高效、更清洁、更低碳的能源服务。

未来，百度与华能将结合华能正在建设的财务共享中心，助力华能研发新一代自动化、智能化财务共享平台，建设自动化的现代会计工厂和智能化的业财融合数字体系、可自由交换与自主交易的能源数据商业化平台、能源行业专业级的商业数据库，以及服务社会的现代能源SaaS（软件即服务）服务体系。

在国家大力布局新型基础设施的当下，百度智能云“以云计算为基础，以人工智能为抓手，聚焦重要赛道”为战略，形成“云智一体”的独特竞争优势。