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1 Zhangbei Green Data Center Solar energy and biomass power generation projects NANRI,Yunlian Zhang Hongge Mobil:

2 Data center energy development Zhangbei DC Project Background New Energy:Solar Biomass Power Project economic benefits Project social benefits The allocation of funds for the project

3 The development trend of the data center: As video, e-commerce,other Internet applications continue to emerge, the rapid development of new technology and cloud computing, big data and so on, global data to an average of 50% of the increasing, to 2020, is expected to be more than 40ZB. Geometric growth of data, to support data storage, data processing center has huge demand. At the same time, by combining with cloud computing, virtualization technology, data center provides business gradually from traditional rental business transformation to value-added services. Ø Google, apple and so on to meet the computing data center cloud since the construction business development; Ø HP, Accenture, a wave of promotional cloud computing data center solution; Ø In mobile, Telecom as the representative of the telecom operators such as the expansion of cloud services Our national data center area development trend [1] [1] 资 料 来 源 : 2012 年 中 国 数 据 中 心 产 业 发 展 白 皮 书 3

4 Development of the data center: new energy utilization With the construction and expansion of the data center, energy issues have become increasingly apparent, the industry enterprises through widely introduced into solar energy, wind energy and other new energy, the use of DC power supply technology, the realization of the data center energy supply, reduce energy consumption, to promote green development, high efficiency of data center. Data center operations to generate electricity is far more than the purchase of IT equipment cost New energy Green data center New technology 直 流 供 电 Composition data center operation cost [1] [1] 资 料 来 源 : 惠 普 云 计 算 数 据 中 心 解 决 方 案 4

5 Development of data center: new energy - solar energy Solar has unlimited reserves, universality and development using the advantages of clean, at the same time, our country has issued relevant policies to support the development of photovoltaic industry, subsidies for photovoltaic power generation, solar energy can become so effective forms of energy data center. At present, large foreign enterprises part using solar energy as the data center energy supply, to reduce energy consumption, save the cost, realize energy saving and emission reduction. Facebook Data center Oregon solar energy data center, the use of solar array, providing approximately 100 kilowatts of electrical energy The main service in the office of electricity IBMDatacenter A 50 kw photovoltaic generation system Supply about 20% of the electricity required to the data center demo diagrams 数 据 中 心 AppleDatacenter Solar battery building covers an area of square meters, with 20 megawatts of electric power for the 4645 square metres of data center Application of case of solar PV in the data center 5

6 Development of data center: new energy - wind energy Wind energy is relatively low cost, and the reserves are relatively rich, but also more and more data center builders favor. Global data center is gradually tend to carry out construction in wind energy rich region, to improve the utilization of new energy efficiency, achieve the goal of energy saving. OWC Data Center USA first fully using the scene wind turbine power generation data center Microsoft Data Center The area near the purchase data center through renewable energy, energy storage equipment to realize the 100% wind power 数 据 中 心 TexasDataCenter 2600 square meters of data center, by the 100 fan near the area, provide 150 megawatts of power for the demo diagrams The application case of wind energy in data centers 6

7 Development of data center: new energy - biomass energy According to the forecast,to 2025, the number of global waste will rise to 2200M tons. Waste biomass power generation has become a clean energy transformation and production and living with valid sources of energy. Biomass power generation is stable and sustainable, which can meet the stability power demand of data center. ebay Data Center The data center in North carolina. 30 units of 6 MW of biological fuel cell for the entire data center of each fuel cell electricity, annual generation capacity of kwh, the Straw Cow dung Living garbage city electricity as a standby circuit Gas generator OR Fuel cell Apple Data Center The construction of the North Carolina Apple Data Center of 6 fuel cell system, produced by the metabolite of biogas, kilowatts of electrical power supply centurylink Data Center The data center is located in California Prefecture, fuel cell using 500 kw, mainly as a lighting and so on. demo diagrams The application case of biomass power generation in the data center 7

8 Data center energy development Zhangbei DC Project Background New Energy: Solar Biomass Power Project economic benefits Project social benefits The allocation of funds for the project

9 The background of Zhangbei data center project:new energy resources Zhangbei area, adequate light, rich in wind resources reserves, at the same time, Bashang grassland animal husbandry developed, there are a lot of resources of livestock manure, can be combined with the local actual situation, consider the use of solar energy, wind energy, biomass power generation mode provides energy for data centers. Solar energy resources n Zhangbei county is located in the high latitude, annual low cloud, sunshine long. The average annual sunshine hours for 2898 hours. The total number of hours of sunshine sunshine hours accounted for 65% n Zhangbei county government commitment, using solar energy as the data center energy supply, will offer certain subsidy Wind energy resources n The annual effective wind days over 300 days, with an average annual effective hours up to 2500 hours, and the wind stability, is a highquality regional wind energy resources Garbage and other wastes n In 2013 the county emissions of tons of garbage. By adding enzyme to the garbage, transformed into methane and water, based on the realization of power generation, but also can absorb the greenhouse gas, to achieve waste "harmless, resource-based" processing 9

10 The background of Zhangbei data center project: industrial pattern In a good opportunity for a new round of information communication technology and industrial development, Zhangbei data center will make full use of the rich energy resources in Zhangbei area, at the same time calculation and Alibaba cloud technology combination, build "new energy + + cloud infrastructure service" model of industrial development, to build a green high performance of a new generation of cloud computing data center. 基 础 设 施 l Will provide the energy security of Zhangbei region is rich in solar energy, wind energy, biomass energy for data centers such as cattle and sheep manure l Choose to park in Zhangbei Miao Tan industry, the construction in 5 phases of cloud computing data center, including computer room, cabinets, server infrastructure l And Alibaba computational aspects of indepth cooperation in the cloud, for users of cloud computing data center service based on 10

11 The background of Zhangbei data center project:cloud services Companies rely on the information and communication technology, construction operation and other aspects of the in-depth Alibaba reserve, combined with cloud computing technology, further expand the market area, at the same time as the Beijing City Hall is specified, no longer high energy consuming industries such as construction approval, data center, data center needs to make external transfer. Zhangbei in the position of advantage, can face the government, enterprises and financial institutions to provide power cloud data center based on value-added services. The traditional data center service Room space rental; Leasing;... Cloud services Government The government informationization level continuously improve, the establishment of generating massive data information system of public management and service, information storage, processing, analysis and will need a lot of Internet Data Center The power industry to speed up the construction of platform for the integration of information system group coverage, improve business collaboration and control ability, need the Internet data center to support a large information service system Power Cloud hosting; Cloud storage;... Finance Financial enterprises from the "data collection" to "integration" of business transition, data security is an important work, to the engine room, the server storage space scale, the increasing demand 11

12 The background of Zhangbei data center project:progress of the project In October 14, 2013, the government of Zhangbei county and NARI Group Company and Custer holding group three party co signed "Zhangbei Miao Tan Industrial Park IDC project investment agreement", the project plans a total investment of yuan, is expected to an area of 450 mu, building area of square meters, can accommodate servers. A data center project: 200 mu, 2000 cabinets, servers, the total power consumption of about 10-15MW. Data Center Room 4 building, office houses 3 buildings, a total construction area of square meters, exterior wall area of about square meters, using a new type of energy saving air conditioning and new energy-saving wall insulation materials; The microgrid multi-source power supply technology of 50% + 50%: solar biomass combined power generation + electric; Ecological agriculture: residue waste and saline alkali land transformation;

13 Data center energy development Zhangbei DC Project Background New Energy: Solar Biomass Power Project economic benefits Project social benefits The allocation of funds for the project

14 The project content:the green power system of DC

15 The project content:the construction of solar energy and biomass power generation Animal manure Biomass and solar energy combined power generation system Vegetable waste Solar water heater Zhangbei data center of straight power supply The daily processing 200 tons of garbage The installed power generating capacity of 3MW Biogas residue improving saline alkali soil

16 The project content:project cooperation unit The NARI Group Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences Cast holdings group Zhangbei Yunlian The British Norwich science and Technology Park scientists, Environment Agency United Nations Kenya garbage power generation project consultant, senior consultant China environmental science research and engineering company. The inventor of the technology. Intel HP & IBM Cisco OCP GE

17 The project content:geographical position Zhangbei County,Zhangjiakou City,Hebei Province(MiaoTan Park) Environmental background: q Zhangbei belongs to the Beijing Tianjin Hebei Economic Circle q The highest elevation of the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region q The annual average temperature of 3.2 degrees, q The annual average sunshine hours of hours. Agricultural background: q At present, cattle and sheep manure, an annual output of tons of vegetables, tons of garbage. q COFCO group,up to tons of pig manure.

18 The project content:solar energy and biomass power generation technology Characteristic: Solar energy Biomass Here the solar energy is not directly used for power generation, but the use of solar energy to the fermentation tank to keep the temperature in cold weather in winter. Can also be used for steam generator. Biogas methane concentration common around 50-60%, super anaerobic digestion technique and the project, the methane concentration can reach more than 80%, close to the natural gas of methane concentration.

19 The project content:solar energy and biomass power generation technology Solar thermal circulation system: the production of hot water for life, maintain biological digestion temperature 1: small investment 2: high heat utilization 3: equipment has its own storage capacity

20 The project content:solar energy and biomass power generation technology Feedstock Aggregation (MSW, manure, wastewater) Biomass power generation process ê Initial Preparation è Microbial & enzymatic (Mixing & Grinding) decontamination & metabolism Winter solar control è Digested organic materials converted to biogas ê è Digester effluent dewatered & nutrients captured NPK-rich organic fertilizer Gray water recovery & recycle Biogas purified to pipeline-quality biomethane ê Biomethane converted to final product è CO₂ capture & recycle Renewable Electricity LNG Renewable Pipeline gas

21 The project content:solar energy and biomass power generation technology Super anaerobic digestion technology advantage 1:Higher output efficiency: methane emissions standards for the same industry compared to up to 200%, more than 80% methane concentration. 2:Faster processing operation time: compared with the "30-60 DAY processing cycle" industry standard, new technology is expected to be completed in anaerobic digestion process in 3-5 days, greatly improving the production efficiency. 3:Wide range of market access: organic waste stream can handle all types of (manure, straw, vegetable waste, food waste etc.). 4:Low temperature process: anaerobic digestion facilities can be optimized for operation at medium temperature. 5:Pure natural process: no genetically modified organisms and artificial transformation. Low operating costs: all input and output are fully utilized, is a sustainable system.

22 The project content:solar energy and biomass power generation technology Super anaerobic digestion technology with other existing biogas technology comparison 5x 8x 3x clean faster more efficient improvement in neutral carbon throughput waste conversion waste diversion footprint

23 The project content:solar energy and biomass power generation technology The utilization rate of gas can be as high as 90%

24 The project content:timeline 6 months 8 months 18 months 18 months

25 Data center energy development Zhangbei DC Project Background New Energy: Solar Biomass Power Project economic benefits Project social benefits The allocation of funds for the project

26 Project economic benefits: q Generators capacity of 3MW, annual power generation of 15M kwh, daily processing 200 tons of organic waste q The annual operation cost about yuan RMB, about 5.4 years of cost recovery Name The annual output Unit price (yuan) Price (million) Power 15MKWH Organic fertilizer 4500 Ton Carbon emissions 15MKWH Garbage disposal subsidies Electricity subsidies Ton MKWH 0 0 Total Description: carbon emissions in accordance with every degree electricity saving carbon emissions 0.785kg tons of carbon dioxide, the calculation of the price of 50 yuan

27 Data center energy development Zhangbei DC Project Background New Energy: Solar Biomass Power Project economic benefits Project social benefits The allocation of funds for the project

28 The project social benefits: The social benefits of the project 1: the use of biomass power technology of electric energy supply to the Zhangbei data center 2: the use of power waste to produce organic to improve local saline soil in Zhangbei 3: the use of ecological recycling help local biological waste management 4: the use of garbage power to reduce carbon emissions Protect environment 5: the management of disposing of agricultural waste to reduce the of soil and water Years of organic garbage tons The annual production of electricity degrees The annual production of 4500 tons of organic fertilizer Years to reduce carbon dioxide emissions tons Years of improvement of saline and alkaline land for arable land X Mu Years can make 3000 acres of corn yield by kg

29 Data center energy development Zhangbei DC Project Background New Energy: Solar Biomass Power Project economic benefits Project social benefits The allocation of funds for the project

30 The allocation of funds for the project: Investment item Budget (million) Solar energy water circulation system Biomass digestion system 35 A combined power generation system The project land and other miscellaneous expenses 5 18 Total 63 5

31 Thank you! NARI Group 中 电 普 华

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