Worried about deterioration? This technology can make your food last longer and Cheaper delivery

author: SUNPRO POWER Marketing

2022-07-23

Since the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere this year, summer has been particularly "enthusiastic" compared with the past. Many countries and regions have entered the real high-temperature "oven mode", and the news of spontaneous combustion of trees in the green belt has occurred from time to time. For example, on July 11, Hangzhou, the city that will host the Asian Games, dispatched a fire brigade to extinguish the fire for an hour.

Spontaneous combustion of Hangzhou green belt

(network short video picture)

Even Britain, which has long been a "unsalable air conditioner", has experienced a high temperature in recent days, breaking 40 degrees Celsius for the first time in history! Due to the cool indoor temperature all year round, most British families do not install air conditioners in their homes. Summer resorts such as beaches are overcrowded. And under this high temperature, there were many fires in London.

Brighton Beach

(image source: BBC)

Winnington village, East London suburb

（CCTV news report）

According to the weather forecast, this summer's high temperature weather may last for 40 days. At present, there is no sign of abatement, which means that the coming summer heat (China's 24 solar terms, meaning the beginning of the hottest period of the year) may not be the highest temperature. No one knows how long this high temperature will last. Here also remind friends in the northern hemisphere to pay attention to heatstroke prevention and cooling!!! Because the weather is not joke.

Transportation problems under high temperature

For example, on the way of transporting pigs, they were turned into roast pork chops by the sun. On July 14, 130 pigs suffered from heatstroke in the expressway service area of Nanning, Guangxi. The driver was forced to ask the fire brigade to go out and sprinkle water to cool down for nearly 20 minutes before recovering.

This is not an example. Since July, this kind of news has been reported many times. There is no doubt that for fresh food related industries, the demand for cold chain transportation continues to increase in high temperature weather.

Cool the pigs

(picture source: Nanning News Network)

Rise and loss of cold economy

Although not all food transportation requires refrigeration, people are more inclined to buy food online in high temperatures to reduce the number of trips. Therefore, as the world's largest e-commerce market, China's fresh e-commerce platform has seen a surge in orders during this period.

These orders have also caused trouble to enterprises. On the one hand, the short-term concentration of orders has led to a shortage of staff. On the other hand, it is because the cold chain needs to turn on the air conditioner for a long time, and the energy consumption is huge. The recent rise in energy costs has led to serious losses for many enterprises. Some cold chain enterprises estimated a loss of about 1.5-2 million RMB in April. This is the revenue and expenditure under the condition that the government vigorously supports cold chain enterprises.

Green is the transaction scale of Chinese fresh food E-commerce

Scale of fresh food e-commerce in China from 2015 to 2023

(data source: iResearch consulting)

Energy policy support

In many developing countries and even developed countries, the efficiency of refrigerated food distribution is low due to the imperfect cold chain transportation facilities. For cities that cannot supply seasonal food by themselves, this imperfection is fatal. For this reason, the government's supporting policies are logical.

In 2021, China launched the supporting policy - "cold chain logistics development plan during the 14th five year plan". From 2022 to 2025, China will accelerate the layout of the cold chain market of cold storage, build 100 national cold chain logistics bases, and complete a large-scale cold chain network, covering villages and towns. This marks that China has ushered in a period of rapid development of cold chain logistics.

"14th five year plan" cold chain logistics development plan”

Government announcement

However, at present, refrigerators in various markets consume a large amount of electricity, and the annual power consumption of most refrigerators is as high as tens of millions of degrees. Energy shortage and energy conservation and consumption reduction have become practical problems that need to be solved urgently in cold storage. Especially after the abnormal high temperature this year, the cold storage needs to be continuously enlarged. For this reason, someone made improvements.

The attempt of refrigeration Enterprises

As one of the world's top 500 enterprises, Gree Electric Appliance has developed and expanded relying on "air conditioning". Gree began to lay out the market of cold chain logistics industry in 2021.

In order to solve the pain point of the cold chain industry that the traditional cold storage covers a large area, has high investment costs, long construction cycle and cannot be moved, Gree has launched a mobile cold storage using photovoltaic power generation, which is only the size of a container.

← Gree's photovoltaic mobile cold storage

This cold storage can be transported by truck, realizing the whole process of refrigerated transportation to distribution. It greatly ensures the freshness of the goods. And because of the photovoltaic power supply, the power autonomy of the equipment is realized. In rainy days, the standby power supply can also be started through the energy storage system to realize the freedom of electricity use.

This can effectively reduce the cost of cold storage in the current energy shortage. Coincidentally, food production enterprises and logistics enterprises have the same consensus in reducing the cost of cold storage.

Upgrading of traditional cold storage

In June this year, a large salmon processing enterprise in Dalian, Liaoning Province installed high-power solar modules on the roof of its factory, with an installed capacity of 900kw, to meet the huge power consumption of cold and fresh equipment. It is estimated that in the first year, the power generation will be 1.66 million kWh, 474 tons of standard coal will be saved annually, and 1293 tons of CO2 emissions will be reduced, which is equivalent to 71865 trees planted every year.

In addition, due to the heat insulation of the roof solar module, the freezer below can be cooled at a constant temperature, which reduces the loss of equipment and is conducive to food storage. Coupled with the global attention to carbon emissions, photovoltaic power generation will also bring green economic benefits to enterprises.

Photovoltaic cold storage structure

Therefore, it can be seen that the mode of "photovoltaic + cold chain" will be one of the key directions of upstream and downstream enterprises in the cold chain in the current era of energy transformation. Whether it is the scope of logistics or the cost of equipment use, grasping energy will determine the future market share of enterprises. If you are considering a solution to reduce energy costs, you might as well try this

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With the increasing scale of global Internet consumption, the cold chain logistics industry is growing well. It is bound to make the government pay more attention to the scale of the cold chain.

For relevant enterprises, this summer will be the key node to seize the market in the era of energy transformation. Whether there is a plan to invest depends entirely on the judgment of enterprises, whether they seize the opportunity, and the dice have been put in their hands.

Thanks for watching!

Please also pay attention to heatstroke prevention and cooling this summer