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Sungrow Discusses Renewable Energy Innovations and Best Practices to Achieve Global Carbon Neutrality at COP29

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BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 18, 2024 /CNW/ — As COP29 kicked off under the theme “In Solidarity for a Green World”, the event brought together global leaders, policymakers, and industry stakeholders from nearly 200 nations to advance climate action and sustainable development. Thompson Meng, Vice President of Sungrow PV & Storage Business Group, participated in a roundtable discussion on Driving Global Energy Transformation Through Effective Renewable Energy Industry Cooperation. He shared insights into key industry trends, and underlined Sungrow’s commitment to achieving a zero-carbon world through renewable energy innovation.

Tackling the Energy Transition Challenges

In 2020, just 1.7% of the world’s electricity was produced by solar and wind. Last year, solar and wind produced 13.4% of the world’s electricity — an all-time high. Solar and wind added more new energy to the global mix than any other source.[1]

At COP29, Meng outlined a powerful vision for the renewables’ role as core energy resources. However, high levels of renewable energy penetration and the widespread power electronics usage pose challenges to grid stability and resilience. Furthermore, the increase in electric vehicle (EV) adoption, while a positive step towards reducing emissions, adds a level of demand-side fluctuation that current grids are not fully equipped to manage.

Meng emphasized that building a renewable-centered power system is essential for carbon neutrality. To ensure grid stability and resilience, the renewable energy systems must be equipped with the ability to provide inertia support, as well as frequency and voltage regulation. Consequently, grid-forming technologies are attracting growing attention within the industry, especially the solar and energy storage grid forming technologies.

Meng exampled an incident occurred on Christmas Eve 2023, when a high-voltage transmission line between the UK and France suddenly tripped, causing the UK grid to instantly lose 1 GW of power and leading to a frequency drop from 50 Hz to 49.3 Hz. At that time, wind power accounted for over 50% of the energy generation, leading to insufficient grid inertia support and exacerbating the rapid frequency drop.

In this incident, Sungrow’s multiple grid-scale energy storage systems with grid-forming technologies responded within seconds, helping restore grid stability and preventing an extensive blackout. By participating in the frequency response market and responding dynamically to fluctuations, Sungrow’s energy storage systems demonstrated their value in maintaining reliable grid operation.

Innovation and Best Practices

The unconditional commitment to innovation is key to move forward to a cleaner planet and meet the company’s sustainability targets. Sungrow is very adamant that technical innovation is in its DNA and has cultivated a team of experienced R&D professionals with strong capabilities in innovation, driving the company’s position as a leader in renewable energy. The company operates six research centers across Hefei, Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Germany, and the Netherlands, ensuring a robust global R&D network. The growing demand for renewable energy infrastructure poses another challenge: ensuring the availability of scalable solutions. This extensive R&D network enables Sungrow to deliver competitive solutions in solar, wind, energy storage, EV equipment, and green hydrogen for a wide range of applications.

“We’ve learned how to capture renewable energy. What’s more: We’re doing it. By innovating both technology and business models, we’re making clean energy more accessible and affordable worldwide, advancing a more equitable energy landscape,” Meng added.

Sungrow’s landmark projects exemplify how to address the technical and economic challenges of renewable integration. The NEOM Green Hydrogen Project in Saudi Arabia, for instance, is set to become one of the world’s first hydrogen production facilities powered entirely by renewables. NEOM, a futuristic city in northwestern Saudi Arabia, aims to redefine sustainable urban development through advanced technology and clean energy. Sungrow is supplying 2.2 GW of PV inverters and a 600 MWh energy storage system to support this project, aligning with Saudi Arabia’s vision for a green economy.

Additionally, Sungrow’s 7.8 GWh battery storage project in Saudi Arabia, one of the largest globally, underscores the essential role of storage in stabilizing grids and managing renewable variability. The project will be supplied with Sungrow’s latest innovation — the liquid-cooled energy storage system PowerTitan 2.0.

The company has also supplied the host country — Azerbaijian with the national first and largest utility-scale solar project. The plant provides clean energy to more than 110,000 homes.

Global-local approach

Energy systems transformation is one of the several era-defining megatrends that will shape our future. Sungrow, driven by its mission of providing “Clean power for all”, plays a vital role in the energy transition.

Sungrow’s global reach, with operations in over 170 countries, and its local teams that provide expert technical assistance and after-sales support with more than 490 service outlets, makes it possible to deliver tailored solutions to different markets. This global-local approach ensures that Sungrow’s customers receive reliable, long-term support, helping them maximize the performance of their systems while contributing to the broader energy transition.

As the world continues to move toward a more sustainable energy future, Sungrow will remain at the forefront, driving innovation and supporting its partners in achieving cleaner, more efficient and more reliable power solutions for all.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/esri/2024/11/12/cop-29-moving-beyond-aspirations/

About Sungrow

Sungrow, a global leader in renewable energy technology, has pioneered sustainable power solutions for over 27 years. As of June 2024, Sungrow has installed 605 GW of power electronic converters worldwide. The Company is recognized as the world’s No. 1 on PV inverter shipments (S&P Global Commodity Insights) and the most bankable Asian energy storage company (BloombergNEF). Its innovations power clean energy projects in over 170 countries, supported by a network of 490 service outlets guaranteeing excellent customer experience. At Sungrow, we’re committed to bridging to a sustainable future through cutting-edge technology and unparalleled service. For more information, please visit www.sungrowpower.com.

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mina.zhang@cn.sungrowpower.com 

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Extends Risk Intelligence to Agentic Activity

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AI agents are creating a new class of digital interaction, requiring organisations to distinguish legitimate agent activity from malicious automationKnow Your Agent intelligence helps organisations identify agent activity and fold it into broader risk intelligence used to assess digital interactionsBuilt on the unique scale and connectivity of the LexisNexis® Risk Intelligence Network, Know Your Agent intelligence helps organisations prepare for an agentic future.

UNITED KINGDOM, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LexisNexis® Risk Solutions has extended its powerful risk intelligence solutions to help organisations understand and assess a new class of digital actor: AI agents operating on behalf of people and businesses.

For decades, LexisNexis Risk Solutions has helped organisations make risk decisions by connecting identity, device, behavioural, network and transaction intelligence at global scale. As AI agents become another participant in digital interactions, the company is extending that same connected intelligence approach to agentic activity.

Know Your Agent (KYA) intelligence adds a new layer of agentic insights to LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ digital identity and fraud prevention platform. It helps organisations recognise when AI agents are interacting with their digital services and can bring those interactions directly into established risk assessment and decisioning workflows, rather than treating them as an isolated risk problem. Many LexisNexis Risk Solutions customers are already using KYA intelligence in their current risk management decision making.

Analysis of global digital transactions by LexisNexis Risk Solutions shows agentic traffic grew over 750% in the first half of 2026 alone. Rapid growth is expected to continue as more people and organisations adopt agents to undertake everyday tasks such as online shopping.

Because most personal agents today do not self-declare as agents, organisations face an immediate challenge: distinguishing agentic activity from other digital traffic. But this is only the first step. Agent detection alone cannot answer key questions organisations ultimately need to resolve: Who or what is the agent acting for? Has that activity been authorised? Is its behaviour consistent with that authority? And does the wider context of the interaction indicate that it is legitimate? 

That context may also change during a digital journey as control passes between a person and an AI agent, making continuous visibility into the interaction increasingly important. This is where the scale and connectivity of the Risk Intelligence Network becomes essential.

AI-agent activity does not need to be evaluated as an isolated interaction. It can be understood in the context of the identities, devices, networks, behavioural patterns and relationships surrounding digital activity, helping to provide richer context for risk decisions. This connected intelligence approach incorporates agent detection into risk decisions in real time, while aiding in creating a foundation for increasingly sophisticated agent identity and authorisation capabilities as agents, standards and use cases evolve.

Autonomous AI agents have the potential to increase the scale and sophistication of fraud, including authorised push payment fraud and account takeover attacks. Malicious agents can learn dynamically from successes and failures, enabling subsequent attacks to become more tailored and prolific.

For organisations, the decision is not whether an agent is universally trusted but whether a specific agent, acting in a specific context, should be permitted to perform a specific action. Legitimate agents will increasingly participate in digital customer journeys, but the appropriate response will depend on what the agent is attempting to do, the context of the interaction, and the organisation’s own risk policies. KYA intelligence helps organisations bring agentic activity into existing decisioning workflows so they can allow, authenticate, review or reject interactions as appropriate.

“Agentic commerce is moving quickly from experimentation into the mainstream,” said Grayson Clarke, chief commercial officer at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. “Agentic transactions globally more than doubled again in the last quarter, driven primarily by personal agents. Some businesses are enabling agents to transact on consumers’ behalf, while others are restricting their activities, and many are still determining the right approach. We have already seen firsthand how a global financial institution used our detection capabilities to help identify agentic activity and prevent it from executing sensitive transactions.”

LexisNexis Risk Solutions analysed more than 116 billion digital transactions globally in 2025 through its LexisNexis® Digital Identity Network®, giving it a uniquely broad view of how human, automated and increasingly agentic interactions are evolving. The network detected 4.9 billion automated bot attacks during the year, a 59% increase year over year. That scale reflects the role LexisNexis Risk Solutions already plays in helping many of the world’s largest financial institutions, merchants and digital businesses assess risk across digital interactions.

Mike Woodberry, senior vice president of product and analytics at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, added, “Managing risk in the agentic economy will require more than agent detection alone. The real challenge is establishing context: what is acting, who or what it represents, whether it is authorised and what it is attempting to do. Our vision for KYA is to extend established risk intelligence into the agentic economy, helping give organisations the flexibility to apply the appropriate response to each interaction rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all risk assessment.”

Woodberry continued, “Organisations should not have to build a new risk strategy every time digital interactions evolve. Adding a new layer of agentic insights to our established identity and fraud prevention platform helps customers build on the capabilities they already rely on while preparing for the next generation of digital interactions.”

Discover more about how organisations can distinguish between human and agentic traffic.

About LexisNexis Risk Solutions

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with information-based analytics and decision tools that combine public and industry-specific content with advanced technology and algorithms to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, the company has offices throughout the world, serves customers in more than 190 countries and territories and is part of RELX. For more information, please visit LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

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LexisNexis® Risk Solutions products and services provide risk signals, analytics and insights designed to assist customers in making risk-based decisions. Results may vary depending on factors including implementation, data availability, transaction characteristics and customer use. No product or service can detect or prevent all fraudulent, malicious, unauthorized or agentic activity. References to detection, identification, risk assessment or prevention should not be interpreted as a guarantee of outcomes.

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EPG Modular Data Center Marks Topping-Out of Its US$120 Million Malaysia FIZ Factory

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JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EPG Modular Data Center today marked the topping-out of its Malaysia FIZ (Free Industrial Zone) Factory in Senai Airport City (SAC), Johor. The milestone advances development of a manufacturing base closer to customers in Southeast Asia, expanding EPG’s production capabilities and strengthening its ability to respond to customer needs across the region and beyond.

The ceremony featured the raising of the final structural beam, followed by a tour of the facility. Guests included representatives from the Johor State Government, SAC and other government agencies, as well as business partners, customers, financial institutions and investment firms.

Representing an investment of approximately US$120 million, EPG’s FIZ Factory spans 107,450 square meters, including 70,000 square meters of production space. Scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2027, the facility is projected to rank among the largest single-site data center module manufacturing bases in the modular data center (MDC) sector by production capacity. Once fully operational, it is expected to employ more than 800 people locally.

The factory’s master plan comprises five buildings for sheet metal production, power transfer unit (PTU) products, diesel generator manufacturing, final assembly, and R&D and office functions. The facility will produce MDC shelters and supporting equipment, including diesel generator sets and PTU power modules.

Designed for flexible, digitally enabled manufacturing, the FIZ Factory will integrate advanced automation equipment, intelligent control systems and automated welding technology. Its production lines are expected to achieve an automation rate of at least 80%, with processes including pretreatment, laser cutting, robotic welding and dust-free coating. Modular line design will accommodate multiple product types and specifications.

Digital platforms for supplier relationship management (SRM), product lifecycle management (PLM), manufacturing execution (MES), quality management (QMS) and warehouse management (WMS) will connect processes across the supply chain, R&D, production, quality and warehousing. Digital twin technology will support production visibility and traceability, while intelligent sensing and real-time alerts will help strengthen workplace and equipment safety.

By consolidating production of MDC shelters and critical power equipment in Malaysia, EPG is building capacity closer to regional customers. The factory is expected to help the company coordinate production and assembly, respond more effectively to project schedules and deliver with greater flexibility.

EPG is also committed to responsible operations at the facility. Its priorities include resource efficiency, waste reduction, environmental protection, employee safety, local talent development and cooperation with Malaysian suppliers and partners. The company will operate in accordance with Malaysian laws and regulations and its ESG management requirements, integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles into its decision-making, compliance and risk management.

“The FIZ Factory marks an important step in bringing EPG’s manufacturing capabilities closer to customers and the markets we serve,” said Alick Wan, EPG’s founder and chairman. “By combining advanced manufacturing with strong local partnerships, we are building a responsive base in Malaysia and a model that can evolve with customer needs in other markets.”

Learn more about EPG Modular Data Center at www.epg-module.com.

Contact: communications@epg-module.com

About EPG

EPG is a prefabricated modular data center infrastructure provider, powered by R&D centers in Singapore, Malaysia, and Shanghai, as well as six advanced manufacturing hubs in Malaysia and China. With over 20 years of engineering expertise, it has a workforce of over 1,700 employees, including more than 300 researchers and experienced engineers in its R&D and technical team. Through continuous technological innovation and a scalable delivery system, EPG delivers integrated and efficient data center solutions for hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise deployments across APAC, EMEA, and other global markets.

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TCL CSOT Begins Equipment Move-In at Its t8 Production Line

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GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TCL CSOT’s t8 8.6-generation Inkjet Printing OLED (IJP OLED) production line in Guangzhou had entered the equipment move-in phase on October 31. With core production equipment now moving into the facility, the world’s first 8.6-generation IJP OLED production line has entered the final phase before expected mass production in 2027. The announcement was made at a ceremony attended by TCL CSOT executives and suppliers.

“The move-in of the first piece of core production equipment marks the t8 project’s transition to the equipment installation and commissioning phase,” said Feng Zhang, Senior Vice President of TCL CSOT. “This is one of the most advanced facilities of its kind, and installing the state-of-the-art equipment will be a true test of our ability to work with our partners to expand current technical limits. We look forward to working closely with our partners to take on these challenges as we establish t8 as a new benchmark for safety, quality, and efficiency.”

Representing a major strategic investment in the next generation of display technology, the t8 project will play a key role in driving future display development through IJP OLED. With a total investment of approximately RMB 29.5 billion and a designed monthly processing capacity of approximately 22,500 glass substrates (8.6-generation, approximately 2,290 mm × 2,620 mm), the production line will primarily produce displays for tablets, laptops, and monitors, with scope to expand into flexible and foldable displays. Following the start of construction on September 16, 2025, the main factory structure was topped out in just 226 days. Equipment move-in at t8 marks the project’s entry into the final phase before mass production. The project will now proceed through production line installation, integrated commissioning of power systems, and process validation, with mass production expected in the fourth quarter of 2027.

IJP OLED uses an inkjet printing process to deposit organic light-emitting materials onto glass substrates with greater precision through a process known as on-demand deposition. Compared with traditional vacuum thermal evaporation (VTE), IJP achieves higher material utilization for greener, more efficient production, and is widely recognized as a key technological pathway for next-generation displays.

“From a single drop of ink and a small prototype to our G5.5 line (t12) in Wuhan becoming the world’s first IJP OLED mass production line, and now the move-in at our G8.6 production line in Guangzhou, TCL CSOT has spent the past 13 years bringing IJP OLED from the laboratory to the production line. Equipment move-in at t8 marks the start of the final stretch before mass production,” said Weiran Cao, General Manager of IJP-OLED Middle Platform of TCL CSOT.

As the t8 project progresses towards mass production, TCL CSOT will continue to drive wider adoption of the industry-leading IJP OLED technology and further expand the sizes and applications of its OLED portfolio, delivering advanced displays and improved experiences for customers and end users worldwide.

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