CATL's Chief Manufacturing Officer Ni Jun Attends World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022

On May 24, Professor Ni Jun, Chief Manufacturing Officer of CATL, shared CATL's mission and vision in the global energy transition and advocated technological innovation to achieve the global carbon neutrality when attending the "China in the Global Energy Transition" session of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 via video link. 

At the meeting, Ni said that the intermittent and unstable nature of renewable energy sources such as wind power, photovoltaic power and hydropower, together with the need for frequency and peak regulation of the power grid during the West-East Power Transmission process, has opened up enormous opportunities for the development of large-scale energy storage systems. 

In addition to innovative research and development on the EV batteries, CATL has also heavily invested in research and development on the energy storage solutions at the power generation side, power transmission and distribution side, and the power consumption side, making innovations in many aspects such as material research and development and manufacturing, Ni said. In terms of material and electrochemistry system innovation, CATL launched its first generation of sodium-ion battery last year. In terms of extreme manufacturing innovation, CATL’s Ningde plant was selected as a member of Global Lighthouse Network by the World Economic Forum for its achievements in extreme manufacturing. This year, by upgrading extreme manufacturing to green extreme manufacturing, CATL's Yibin plant has become the world's first certified zero-carbon battery factory.

CATL will expand application scenarios of clean energy solutions so as to provide every consumer access to clean energy, thus promoting the global push for carbon neutrality. 

Zhang Zhigang, president of State Grid Corporation of China, Daniel Yergin, vice-chairman of S&P Global, and Elizabeth Gaines, CEO of FMG of Australia also attended the meeting.