NAIROBI, Kenya, May 9 – Huawei Digital Power is set to cap the rising cost of electricity for high consumers, including manufacturers, by at least 10 percent using its latest range of contingency energy packs known as Power S.
The new solution, launched in Nairobi today, uses Huawei’s proprietary SmartLi technology, which has the capacity to store between 10 and 100 kilowatts.
The former can light up a home for about 3 hours, while the latter can power up to 50 homes at the same time.
Speaking when he unveiled Power S at a Partner Summit in Nairobi, Wang Bao, Director of Huawei Kenya Digital Power, said that the development was informed by an unraveling future where electricity consumers are fast evolving into prosumers.
“This digitalization has led to the reality of the need for data centers. We expect this trend to grow across all industries, particularly manufacturing,” he noted.
The tech firm anticipates that the use of artificial intelligence will increase 30-fold by 2030, while computing power demand will rise 500-fold.
It is also in anticipation that Kenya’s data center market will only grow going forward at an estimated rate of 13 percent and generate more than Sh10 billion by 2027.
In the midst of rising demand for energy and an unstable or unreliable grid electricity supply, Huawei’s Power S addresses the current high electricity costs.
The Power-S takes a very short time to implement the power backup solution and has a management component that allows for easier troubleshooting.
It gives a view of how much electricity the system harvests and the power that is consumed.
At the same time, it reduces the amount of space required for power backup equipment from the current average of 15 square meters to 4 square meters.
