From April 24th to 26th, the 6th Smart City and Intelligent Construction Industry Expo (hereinafter referred to as the "Double Smart Expo") and High-end Forum, hosted by Wuhan Urban Construction Investment and Development Group Co., LTD., will be held at Wuhan International Expo Center. The exhibition will focus on the latest developments and innovative achievements in the smart city and intelligent construction industry, promoting mutual learning and exchange, on-site communication, and common development within the industry, and better serving the high-quality development, efficient governance, and high-quality life of cities.

Since its first establishment in 2019, the Double Intelligence Expo has been successfully held for five sessions. This year's Double Intelligence Expo has been upgraded once again. It is a larger-scale and more influential industry event since its inception. It will present an exhibition area of 60,000 square meters, with over 100 industry leaders gathering together. It is expected that the number of professional visitors will reach 20,000.

Wuhan Energy Group Co., Ltd. is a key exhibitor promoted at this year's Double Intelligence Expo.

Enterprise Introduction 

Wuhan Energy Group Co., LTD. (formerly known as Wuhan Gas and Heat Group Co., LTD., hereinafter referred to as "Energy Group") was established in December 2001. It is the core enterprise of the energy sector of Wuhan City Investment Group Corporation and the only comprehensive energy enterprise among municipal enterprises. By the end of 2024, the total assets of Wuhan Energy Group exceeded 10 billion yuan, and it had approximately 3,500 employees.

At present, the energy group is responsible for supplying more than two-thirds of the city's natural gas market. It has over 3.2 million households of pipeline natural gas users under its jurisdiction, 17,000 kilometers of urban gas pipelines, a storage capacity of 50,000 cubic meters of liquefied natural gas, and an annual gas supply scale of approximately 2 billion cubic meters. There are 97,000 users of liquefied petroleum gas, with an annual gas supply of over 60,000 tons. 80 charging stations have been successfully operated. The installed capacity of photovoltaic power generation exceeds 2 megawatts. The installed capacity of the power generation project of the integrated energy station has reached 30 megawatts. The operating housing area is approximately 320,000 square meters and the land area is approximately 690,000 square meters. The comprehensive strength of urban energy services ranks first among urban gas enterprises in Central China and has been continuously selected as one of the top 100 service enterprises in Wuhan.

The Energy Group has been deeply engaged in the industry for over two decades, thoroughly implementing the national innovation-driven development strategy. Currently, it possesses four national high-tech enterprises, nine various R&D and innovation platforms, and over 300 types of intellectual property rights. The company benchmarks against world-class management improvement actions, deepens the reform of state-owned enterprises, stimulates innovation vitality, and gradually transforms and develops into a leading domestic comprehensive energy service provider and asset management operator.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the energy group vigorously implements the "12588" development strategy. That is: centering on one core main line, strengthening two major business sectors, promoting the transformation and upgrading of the five modernizations, building eight major operation platforms, and reinforcing eight major support guarantees, to provide a solid energy guarantee for building a modern Wuhan that is a national central city, a core city of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and an international metropolis. Strive to contribute energy strength in accelerating the transformation of the "three advantages" and vigorously promoting the practice of modernization with Chinese characteristics in Wuhan.

Exhibition Highlights

01 Robot dog inspection of gas pipeline network

This robot dog deeply integrates artificial intelligence and robotics. With the help of SLAM technology and AI path planning, it independently plans the optimal inspection route based on the distribution of gas pipelines. Automatically complete tasks such as leakage detection along gas pipelines and in well chambers, locate potential safety hazards, and improve the quality and efficiency of inspection.

Equipped with high-precision laser detection devices and 5G terminals, the robot dog can transmit the detected gas concentration, equipment status and other data in real time back to the control center or the smart gas management platform during inspection. The platform quickly generates a three-dimensional leakage point location map and risk assessment report. Staff can promptly grasp the on-site situation, make quick decisions, shorten the time from hidden danger discovery to handling, and ensure the safe operation of the gas pipeline network.

02 New Technologies in the Biomass Industry Chain

The project of preparing biogas from agricultural and forestry waste designed by the Energy Design Company affiliated to Wuhan Energy Group for Hubei Sanhe Pipe Pile Co., Ltd. does not directly burn biomass fuel. Instead, it uses a gasifier to vaporize the biomass fuel. The gasification process mainly generates combustible gas through four processes: oxidation reaction, reduction reaction, pyrolysis and drying under high-temperature conditions. The main components are CH4, CO, etc. The gasification process does not fall under biomass direct combustion. The project only uses biomass as the gas source, rather than the heat generated by biomass direct combustion. This project has played a demonstration role in the clean utilization of biomass and the establishment of the biomass industrial chain.

03 Source-grid-load-storage Virtual Power Plant

The virtual power plant platform of source-grid-load-storage of Xinneng Investment Company, a subsidiary of Wuhan Energy Group, takes intelligent control technology as its core, aggregates distributed photovoltaic, energy storage, V2G charging stations and other resources of enterprises, and builds a "source-grid-load-storage" collaborative system to facilitate the low-carbon transformation of smart cities and industries. The platform reduces energy consumption costs and increases the proportion of green electricity through real-time optimized scheduling. Integrate charging stations, photovoltaic and energy storage facilities to achieve large-scale regulation and control; In combination with the power sales business, provide demand response for users. In the future, we will deepen the integration of the three networks, create a benchmark virtual power plant at the city level, promote the leap of the energy system towards cleanliness and efficiency, and provide an innovative engine for the "dual carbon" goals.