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Robin Zeng: Unlocking the Sustainable Energy Era with Zero-Carbon Technology
04.02.2026 / 18:40 CET/CEST
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NINGDE, China, Feb. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Dr. Robin Zeng, Chairman and CEO of CATL, delivered a speech about the way forward for vitality at the World Laureate Summit and the World Governments Summit in Dubai, the UAE on Feb. 3. Full textual content under:
Throughout human historical past, vitality has been the driving power behind civilization’s progress. Every main leap in human improvement has been accompanied by an vitality revolution. Today, we’re experiencing one other revolutionary vitality shift, one corresponding to humanity’s transition from hunter-gatherers to agricultural societies — from an period the place we observe down and collect fossil fuels, to at least one the place we are able to harvest vitality in wind and photo voltaic farms and retailer it in batteries.
This revolution is enabled by science and expertise progress, which delivers sensible options and drives down prices. According to the IEA and BNEF, over the previous decade, the price of LFP batteries and photo voltaic has fallen by about 80%. Sustainable vitality options have developed from being technically possible to turning into an economically compelling alternative.
CATL is enabling renewable vitality to realize true financial competitiveness throughout a spread of functions. In the mining sector, solar-plus-storage methods powered by CATL have been deployed in Chile and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, supplying electrical energy to distant operations at about one-fourth the price of diesel turbines.
The same transformation is underway in industrial functions. In Pakistan, the fast progress of distributed photo voltaic, mixed with CATL’s vitality storage options, is offering dependable energy to native cement vegetation, slicing electrical energy prices by half.
In California, we see what future energy methods will appear to be at the grid scale. As storage capability expands, the “duck curve” created by excessive renewable penetration has been considerably eased. In 2025, the grid recorded greater than 1,800 hours when clear vitality met or exceeded whole electrical energy demand, displaying what turns into doable when renewables and storage develop collectively.
These developments level to a broader actuality: in lots of areas, clear vitality is being adopted not only for local weather objectives, but additionally as a result of technological progress has made it the most commercially viable possibility.
We are embracing the profound shift in the direction of a net-zero vitality period. The future vitality system, to my thoughts, could be outlined by three phrases: distributed, clever, round.
First, distributed energy methods, which embrace renewable era and superior battery storage, will mushroom throughout the world, particularly in areas with weak grid infrastructure. This will exchange lots of fossil gas vitality, which is centralized and depends closely on large-scale energy vegetation and a powerful grid.
However, a excessive proportion of renewable vitality introduces new challenges to the secure operation of energy methods. To deal with these challenges, CATL has developed an revolutionary high-voltage grid-forming vitality storage expertise, which may act as a stabilizer for zero-carbon vitality methods. It can present grid frequency regulation, reactive energy compensation, damping management, and system inertia help. It additionally provides wonderful black-start capabilities, that are essential in the case of large-scale blackouts, like the one hit Spain final yr.
This expertise has been efficiently validated in engineering, and in China we’re making use of this expertise to construct an off-grid industrial park, which is powered completely by wind, photo voltaic, and storage to produce a 40GWh battery plant. It showcases how superior vitality expertise can create a net-zero energy system.
Beyond being distributed, future vitality methods can be extra clever. They will be capable of deal with huge quantities of knowledge and modify to fluctuations in renewable energy era and consumption. Advanced AI-driven scheduling and optimization can be required to steadiness vitality provide and demand. For occasion, we use AI to reinforce vitality system administration for SenseTime’s AI Data Center in Shanghai, serving to handle the fluctuating vitality demand of computing duties.
Thirdly, round financial system is essential for reaching zero-carbon vitality. Unlike fossil fuels, that are burned upon use, supplies for zero-carbon vitality methods could be recycled. CATL has been at the forefront of this effort, and we now have achieved the highest restoration charges in the business—99.6% for nickel and cobalt, and 96.5% for lithium. To construct a secure, sustainable provide of vital uncooked supplies, we’re additionally working carefully with NGOs and business friends to advertise a round financial system in the sector.
Driven by continued progress in zero-carbon applied sciences, a sustainable vitality period is now not a distant imaginative and prescient — it’s approaching quickly. In my estimate, 2030 will mark the true starting of the sustainable vitality period.
How can we get there? My reply is: science reveals us what is feasible, however engineering and manufacturing decide how briskly we get there.
Basic science stays the final supply of transformation. Breakthroughs in materials science, synthetic intelligence, and new vitality methods will proceed to form what the future can appear to be. To be sincere, with at the moment’s applied sciences, we could have solved lower than 30% of what a totally sustainable vitality system require. Many disruptive applied sciences have but to emerge, and far foundational analysis nonetheless lies forward.
For expertise to really change the world, it should transfer past labs and be deployed at scale. Today, we now have made scientific and technological breakthroughs in frontier areas reminiscent of condensed batteries, solid-state batteries, and perovskite photo voltaic batteries. Yet there may be nonetheless rather more to do to scale these improvements from the lab to the market. That is why we’re investing closely in R&D – greater than all different gamers in the business mixed.
While preventing world warming seems to be a local weather subject, it’s in essence an vitality subject, and basically, a improvement subject. We imagine worldwide cooperation is the most effective technique to deal with it, and we’re keen to share battery applied sciences and experiences with the world. We have developed from exporting batteries in the early days, to “local production, for local markets” now. We are additionally licensing applied sciences to our companions to assist them construct their very own battery vegetation.
To speed up the transition to a sustainable vitality period, we have to scale up superior vitality applied sciences in a extra environment friendly and reasonably priced method globally. However, in some markets, in our expertise, constructing and gear laws are the trigger of upper price of manufacturing. I wish to suggest an answer: establishing particular financial zones that undertake related laws of constructing and gear that are practiced in China. This will rapidly scale up productiveness, because it has been confirmed profitable in China.
Ladies and gents, a latest examine by Columbia University initiatives a 1.7 levels C temperature rise above the pre-industrial stage in 2027. To deal with world warming, we have to take instant motion to construct a sustainable vitality system. This requires expertise breakthroughs, braveness and knowledge.
As a pioneer of the vitality transition, CATL is keen to work extra carefully with the scientific neighborhood, governments, companies, and anybody who’s dedicated to the mission. Let’s work collectively in the direction of a net-zero vitality future, and depart a wholesome, inexperienced Earth for future generations to come back.
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