Main Participants: HAN Changlin, WANG Guiping, WEN Zhengguo, ZHANG Weijun, GONG Chuanli, YUAN Hong, YANG Chunxia, ZHAO Yongfei, DENG Xiaogang, ZHU Xueqin, CHEN Xiaosong, ZHANG Xu, CHI Hailong, ZHANG Jie, HE Ting

Team Profile

The Research & Development Innovation Team for the Intelligent Integrated Control Technology of Hydropower and New Energy has been consistently committed to the research of key technologies and the development of products for the automatic control systems of giant hydropower stations. With a history traced back to the early 1980s, the team is the earliest group in China to engage in the research and development of computer monitoring system technology for hydropower stations. It was honored with the first National Science and Technology Progress Award in the specialized field of hydropower station computer monitoring. The monitoring systems for China's landmark projects in the localization of hydropower units, including Longyangxia, Gongboxia, Three Gorges, and Xiangjiaba, were all developed by this team. Through the unremitting efforts of successive generations, and in response to the demands of intelligent and smart technologies and the critical issue of achieving autonomous control in the control systems of giant power stations, the team has built upon its independently developed H9000 computer monitoring system for hydropower stations to successfully develop the next-generation iP9000 intelligent integrated platform for water resources and hydropower. This platform encompasses the I/II/III zone application of automation systems for hydropower stations/centralized control centers (hubs). It has provided the control systems essential for the full operation of the Baihetan Hydropower Station and the successful remote control of the Kunming West-to-East Power Transmission Control Center. At present, this series of products have been successfully applied to the localization upgrading of monitoring systems for all 34 units at the Three Gorges Hydropower Plant, as well as in major water resources and hydropower projects such as Longyangxia, Gongboxia, Wuqiangxi, Liyuan, Fengtan, Nierji, and Xiajiang. Additionally, they have been deployed in cascade centralized control centers of the Yellow River Upstream and Hunan Wuling projects under the State Power Investment Corporation. At the same time, the systems have been extended to numerous foreign medium and large-sized power stations and centralized control centers, including ILHA and JUPIA in Brazil, and the Karot project in Pakistan. The application of these systems has also been widely expanded into sectors such as new energy, irrigation districts, and wastewater treatment, making a positive contribution to solving the key technology challenges of domestic autonomous control in the field of hydraulic and hydropower industrial control, and safeguarding national energy security.

In 2022, the Baihetan Hydropower Station, recognized as one of the top ten super projects of central state-owned enterprises, achieved full operation and power generation, marking the completion of the world's largest "Clean Energy Corridor" along the Yangtze River by China. The four giant hydropower stations on the "Clean Energy Corridor": Three Gorges, Baihetan, Xiluodu, and Xiangjiaba, as well as the world's three largest remote centralized control centers: Three Gorges-Gezhouba, Baihetan-Wudongde, and Xiluodu-Xiangjiaba, all utilize the iP9000 intelligent integrated platform or the H9000 computer monitoring system. These systems ensure secure, stable and reliable control, safeguarding the safe and stable operation of the hydropower stations.

Fig.1 Overall Architecture of iP9000 Intelligent Integrated Platform for Water Resources and Hydropower

Fig.2 iP9000 Supported the Full Operation of Baihetan Hydropower Station

Fig.3 China Southern Power Grid Dual-Regulation Centralized Control Center, China's First Centralized Control System Focused on Pumped Hydro Storage