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Alibaba Cloud for Sustainability

Achieve a sustainable future with low-carbon and energy-efficient technologies

Overview

Alibaba Cloud is committed to creating a sustainable future with innovation. Our solution helps achieve high energy efficiency and carbon neutrality goals with comprehensive energy and emission management features. These are based on leading technical capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), data intelligence, and the Internet of Things (IoT), combined with proven expertise across energy sectors and industries. This helps you plan sustainability strategy in detail, monitor and manage energy consumption and environmental impacts, and integrate the strategy into communities.

  • Enterprise-Oriented Sustainability Solution

    This solution complies with Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol and other relevant standards and helps manage carbon assets, plan carbon neutrality paths, measure carbon footprints, and monitor the progress of your carbon neutral target.

  • AI-Based Energy Management

    You can easily manage energy data of electricity, water, and gas in visualized dashboards with AI-based functions and integrate intelligent analysis capabilities powered by Qwen LLM with your customized sustainability applications through open APIs.

  • Customizable Low Carbon Community

    You can integrate carbon inclusiveness into the daily behaviors of your community members by customizing a low-carbon or net-zero community with green action guidelines and regulations to promote social-oriented sustainability.

Alibaba Group Team Up With Master Kong to Cut Plastic Waste

Alibaba Group collaborated with Master Kong to recycle plastic packaging into rPET pellets, which are then turned into storage boxes. Energy Expert monitored and recorded the carbon emission savings during the whole process, with the results showing that the carbon footprint of each rPET storage box was 21% smaller than boxes made from virgin PET material.

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Sustainability Reports

2024 Alibaba Group Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report

Alibaba’s ESG strategy embodies our mission “making it easy to do business anywhere “, marking Alibaba's 25th year of fostering e-commerce and open tech ecosystems, supporting global rural development, and pioneering emissions cuts. This ESG report looks back on these commitments that define Alibaba, and refreshes our vision and mission.

Alibaba Cloud Sustainability Journey: A Look Back and Forward

In this edition of our eMagazine, we showcase our commitment to technological innovations from green initiatives to carbon neutrality efforts, highlight our efforts in nurturing digital talent and bridging the digital divide, and demonstrate how technology can empower the next generation and create positive change in communities worldwide.

Energy Expert helps enterprises move towards a sustainable future

Start Your Sustainability Journey with Alibaba Cloud Energy Expert

Manage Emissions with Carbon Vision
Carbon Vision provides a one-stop visualized platform for public sectors and enterprises to easily monitor key carbon emission factors and accurately report emissions with real-time analysis. You can run simulations based on the analysis to estimate region and industry-specific emissions and set carbon emission targets and regulations according to simulation results to lay out your path to carbon neutrality.
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Save Energy and Cut Emissions with Energy Expert
Energy Expert helps enterprises and large communities to plan, manage, and reduce energy consumption, and trace, calculate, and regulate carbon emissions. You can run a diagnosis on energy consumption and efficiency and generate forecasts for trends across the energy value chain, or push data to Energy Expert to let Qwen LLM automatically generate analysis results and executable optimization plans, as well as reports based on international standards. The industry-savvy Carbon Footprint feature provides accurate calculation and optimization suggestions to cut carbon emissions to the minimum.
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Reduce the Social Cost of Carbon with Low-Carbon Community
Sustainable development relies on communities and individuals. You can customize a low-carbon community that offers a carbon ledger for each community member, encourages low-carbon activities on the personal level with quantifiable standards and executable green guidelines, and promotes carbon neutrality among all members through social features to reduce the social costs of carbon (SCC) within your community.
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Power Sustainability With AI Through Energy Expert's Open APIs

For the full list of Energy Expert APIs and detailed information, please refer to Energy Expert API Overview.

Energy Management API helps you push data from devices to Energy Expert, which leverages Qwen LLM to automatically analyze the data and produce detailed analysis and optimization results.

  • Step 1

    Go to your Energy Expert console, create a device in "Organization - Device Management" and get the device ID.

  • Step 2

    Push the data from the device to Energy Expert via the API and the console will provide statistical analysis once the data has been processed by Energy Expert.

  • Step 3

    Retrieve energy analysis results from Energy Expert via the API as needed.

You can customize carbon accounting templates and leverage Corporate Carbon Accounting API to push activity data of your organization to Energy Expert, which leverages Qwen LLM to automatically analyze emissions and produce greenhouse gas reports based on international standards such as ISO 14064 and GHG protocols.

  • Step 1

    Access the Energy Expert console and configure carbon accounting templates.

  • Step 2

    Retrieve the data items through the API and push real-time/monthly/annual activity data accordingly. The carbon emission calculation will be triggered automatically.

  • Step 3

    Retrieve multi-dimensional analysis results on carbon emissions via the API.

You can customize product lifecycle models and data items, then push product carbon footprint data through Product Carbon Footprint API to Energy Expert, which leverages Qwen LLM to produce footprint results and reports based on international standards such as ISO 14067.

  • Step 1

    Configure the product lifecycle models and data items in the Energy Expert Console.

  • Step 2

    Retrieve the data items through the API and push product carbon footprint data in the designated accounting time frame. The product footprint calculation will be triggered automatically.

  • Step 3

    Retrieve the carbon footprint results and reports via the API.

Alibaba Cloud Energy Expert Enables Sustainability for Enterprises

(as of June 2023)

13

Industries

3,200+

Enterprises

32,700+

Devices

2501,915

Factors from Global LCA Databases

12%

Energy Saving on Average

7

Days for Product PCF Report Delivery

Energy Expert helps enterprises move towards a sustainable future

Shape the Future of Sustainable Logistics with EasyDispatch and Energy Expert

5G MAX PTE LTD and other logistics customers of Alibaba Cloud leverage our intelligent logistics management platform, EasyDispatch, which is now integrated with the carbon monitoring and analysis capabilities of Energy Expert, to achieve highly efficient logistics management and carbon reduction goals.

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Efficient Logistics Optimization

5G MAX PTE LTD leveraged EasyDispatch’s real-time dispatching and vehicle route planning capabilities to improve logistics efficiency and performance, and successfully processed 550,000 orders in 7 months with 10,000 concurrent orders processed simultaneously.

Carbon Monitoring and Analysis for Logistics

Carbon emissions of each logistics task are monitored and analyzed by Energy Expert in real-time based on logistics information from EasyDispatch - such as region and regional order quantity - to provide accurate and quantified insights of carbon footprint, and facilitate agile carbon strategy adjustment.

Unified Carbon Reduction

The detailed analysis of logistics carbon emissions in Energy Expert such as trend graphs and scope status can be used in conjunction with EasyDispatch, so logistics enterprises can weigh the factors of carbon reduction and business development, balancing sustainable logistics with carbon neutrality goals.

Customer Success Stories

"Powered by Alibaba Cloud's energy expert, Synagie’s Cloud Commerce Platform is able to categorize low-carbon products, identify carbon emission resources and conduct informed sustainability practices to reduce carbon emissions for hundreds of its brand customers and at the same time provide online carbon footprint modeling, calculations, accounting and carbon neutral certifications for all orders processed by Synagie."

– Synagie

As a leading e-commerce company that powers digital transformation in Southeast Asia, Synagie wishes to improve its ESG efforts and achieve carbon neutrality, creating a new Green Retail image. Synagie leveraged Alibaba Cloud Energy Expert to achieve its sustainability goal by reducing its carbon footprint in a cost-effective way. It helped Synagie identify the sources of the carbon emissions from its daily business activities, calculate carbon emissions, and offer actionable optimization plans with recommendations that balance business growth and environmental impacts to reduce carbon emissions.

“Leveraging Energy Expert’s expertise in data analysis and predictive insights, Bangkok Hospital has witnessed notable advances in energy efficiency and cost reduction. The platform has enabled us to optimize our energy consumption, reflecting our commitment to sustainability and setting a new benchmark for eco-friendly operations within the healthcare industry.”

– Mr. Ekaraj Panjavinin, Chief Digital Officer, True Corporation Plc

True Digital Group is one of the core businesses of True Corporation Plc., Thailand’s leading Telecom-Tech company. It collaborated with Alibaba Cloud to launch its “Climate Technology Platform”, which leverages Alibaba Cloud’s globally proven Energy Expert to pave the way for groundbreaking sustainability and energy efficiency improvements as well as cost reductions. It is expected to serve more businesses in Thailand across the healthcare sector and beyond, covering various industries such as retail, agriculture, and manufacturing.

"Energy Expert has helped us simplify the process, reduce errors, and prepare for a compliance exercise that we will be undertaking."

– Sharifah Bakar Ali HEAD OF STRATEGIC BUSINESS & MARKET DEVELOPMENT, UEM EDGENTA

UEM Edgenta Berhad is an asset management and infrastructure solutions company. They use Energy Expert to count and measure emissions and carbon footprint, set targets to reduce emissions, and implement ESG strategy. With the support and knowledge sharing and creation from Alibaba Cloud, UEM will integrate Energy Expert into AssetTool (their system) and provide services to clients to help them understand their emission footprint and what they can do to reduce that overall footprint.

"Energy Expert helps enterprises run their HVAC more efficiently through self-learning energy-saving algorithms, cutting energy use by roughly 10%. By the end of March 2022, nearly 1,700 companies had started to use Energy Expert."

– Alibaba Environmental, Social, and Governance Report 2022

Alibaba Xixi Park runs with 100% digitalized operations. Based on this, Energy Expert helps the park control the air conditioning through deep reinforcement learning algorithms to cut power consumption by 17% and achieves a 95% accuracy in electricity consumption forecast based on the accuracy load forecasting model, helping the park balance annual power consumption. The park also applies a non-busy time energy optimization strategy to the daily operations through Energy Expert and successfully reduces 30% of energy consumption from the lighting system.

Alibaba Cloud provides technology and operations support to help the China Academy of Art (CAA) develop a low-carbon campus. Together, Alibaba Cloud and CAA designed a solution plan to integrate the idea of low carbon as fashion into campus lifestyle, utility services, and daily operations and leverage Low Carbon Community to promote voluntary emission reduction to each individual and increase social inclusion with carbon reduction benefits. After a 30-day trial, the plan attracted over 29,000 visits to the low-carbon campus mobile app and resulted in a voluntary emission reduction of 3.94kg per capita. The low carbon campus plan was nominated at the World Summit on the Information Society Prizes 2022 for its contribution to carbon neutrality.

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