The intensification of global climate change has made energy conservation and emission reduction a common goal for governments, enterprises, and societies worldwide. The manufacturing industry, especially high-energy-consuming enterprises, is at the forefront of this energy and carbon emission reform. From the global goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius set by the Paris Climate Agreement to China's 'dual-carbon' strategy—achieving carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060—policies worldwide are gradually tightening, forcing manufacturing enterprises to accelerate their transformation.
The semiconductor industry, as the core of modern industry, bears the responsibility of driving the development of the digital economy, and its challenges in energy and carbon emission management far exceed those of other manufacturing sectors. It faces not only policy pressure but also changing market environments. European and American countrieshave introduced new regulations such as carbon tariffs and carbon labeling, directly affecting the competitiveness of product exports. With increasing international market demands for carbon emission standards, especially from upstream leading companies like Apple, TSMC, and Samsung, which are imposing stricter carbon emission controls on their supply chains. Suppliers that fail to meet their low-carbon standards may risk losing their supplier qualifications. In this context, strengthening dual-carbon management in the semiconductor industry has become an inevitable trend to cope with increasingly complex external environments and growing environmental requirements.
However, the current digital management of energy and carbon in the semiconductor industry still faces many problems and difficulties, making it challenging to meet the rigorous tests of global energy and dual-carbon goals. Semiconductor production processes consume enormous amounts of energy, especially processes like wafer manufacturing, etching, and photolithography, which require high levels of electricity, ultrapure water, and specialty gases. Unlike traditional manufacturing, the semiconductor industry must not only ensure highly precise and clean production environments but also optimize energy efficiency on this basis. However, most semiconductor companies still lack adequate management and monitoring of energy and carbon data, and many are unprepared for issues like carbon verification and carbon footprint. The current level of energy and carbon management varies significantly among semiconductor enterprises. Most small semiconductor companies lack well-established digital measurement systems, resulting in unclear energy consumption and carbon emission situations, absence of energy and carbon management systems, and unified energy-saving and carbon reduction goals. The direction of related work is also unclear, leaving them at a loss in the face of energy and dual-carbon challenges. Although large semiconductor companies have set dual-carbon goals and established corresponding management systems and organizational structures, the energy and dual-carbon agenda is vast, involving numerous business scenarios that require coordination across multiple departments, scenarios, and fields. The lack of unified scheduling and coordination in practical execution and management leads to slow progress in related actions and difficulties in verifying and controlling outcomes.
Strengthening energy and carbon management is not only an inevitable choice for semiconductor companies to meet policy requirements and market competition but also key to ensuring their sustainable and healthy development under dual-carbon goals.Only by making breakthroughs in energy and carbon emissions can the semiconductor industry maintain its competitive advantage in the global supply chain and achieve long-term sustainable development.
First, the completeness of energy and carbon data is the foundation for precise management. By comprehensively mastering enterprise energy, carbon emission, and production data, companies can achieve digital and精细化管理 of energy consumption, carbon emissions, and production processes. From the perspective of energy management, comprehensive and detailed energy consumption monitoring and management can help enterprises identify energy efficiency issues in a timely manner, thereby formulating scientific energy-saving and carbon reduction measures. This not only reduces operational costs but also cuts carbon emissions, laying a solid foundation for achieving carbon reduction goals.
Second, mastering accurate carbon emission data not only helps enterprises trace product carbon footprints, promote carbon asset and carbon trading management, but also assists in implementing various carbon reduction projects. The implementation of these measures can enhance enterprises' carbon management capabilities, avoid quota waste or overspending through rational planning of carbon quota usage in the carbon trading market, and generate additional revenue through carbon trading. More importantly, precise energy and carbon data management provides strong support for improving ESG ratings, helping enterprises gain more advantages in responding to supply chain carbon reduction requirements and market competition.To this end, semiconductor companies urgently need to build a more systematic and intelligent digital management platform to achieve breakthroughs in energy and carbon emission management. Faced with highly complex production processes and diverse energy needs, the semiconductor industry's management of energy and carbon emissions must shift from optimizing single scenarios to精细化管理 of entire processes and all scenarios. Through digital means, enterprises can achieve real-time collection, analysis, and feedback of energy and carbon data, enhancing management transparency and coordination, thereby providing strong support for achieving energy-saving and carbon reduction goals. At the same time, this platform-based management approach will lay a solid foundation for enterprises to cope with future stricter carbon regulatory policies and fierce market competition, ensuring they remain invincible in the global dual-carbon transformation wave.
GETECH, based on extensive semiconductor industry experience and integrating cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, large models, big data, and cloud computing, provides a full lifecycle energy and carbon management solution for the semiconductor industry. It helps semiconductor companies across the entire industrial chain optimize energy usage and carbon emissions throughout the production process, covering energy input, energy consumption, and carbon emissions, driving enterprises toward low-carbon, high-efficiency, and sustainable development. Through advanced technologies like Multi-agent large models, AI algorithms, big data, and cloud computing, it achieves digital management of enterprise energy consumption and carbon emissions. It assists enterprises in establishing corresponding management and assessment systems for energy and carbon emissions, covering various energy and dual-carbon scenarios such as energy consumption monitoring, equipment operation and management efficiency improvement, carbon inventory and accounting, carbon footprint tracing, supply chain collaborative carbon reduction, and energy-saving and carbon reduction project management tracking. At the same time, it focuses on high-energy-consuming and high-carbon-emission auxiliary systems in semiconductor enterprises, such as HVAC and compressed air systems, implementing AI algorithm-based intelligent optimization control to maximize system energy efficiency and vertically cover related high-energy-consuming and high-carbon-emission scenarios. It helps semiconductor enterprises start by establishing完善的能碳数字化监控, using digital means to achieve real-time collection, analysis, and monitoring of energy and carbon data, gradually achieving precise monitoring of energy and dual-carbon, transparent data management, and simultaneously expanding into different scenarios such as carbon asset management, carbon footprint tracing, supply chain collaborative carbon reduction, and ESG planning management.
GETECH's energy and carbon management solutions and related products and services have received multiple authoritative honors and industry recognition in recent years and have accumulated rich practical cases. Over the past three years, they have been applied in over 70 manufacturing factories, cumulatively helping users reduce carbon emissions by over 350,000 tons. They assist semiconductor companies across the entire industrial chain in effectively improving energy and carbon management levels, reducing operational costs, and gaining long-term competitiveness under dual-carbon goals to achieve sustainable development. Taking the service practice of a leading semiconductor enterprise as an example, by establishing a unified carbon asset management service platform, it achieved carbon emission accounting services, helping customers complete annual carbon emission status, planned carbon emissions, annual carbon emission analysis, site emission analysis, etc. The enterprise uses AI, cloud computing, big data, and other technologies to assist future energy-saving and carbon reduction planning and work through massive data沉淀, while significantly enhancing its ability to respond to product carbon footprint and organizational carbon requirements and challenges from the supply chain, achieving a 30%-50% improvement in human efficiency.Driven by global climate change, the green revolution in energy and carbon management in the semiconductor industry is imperative. Faced with increasingly stringent policy requirements and market competition, semiconductor enterprises can only effectively address the challenges of energy consumption and carbon emissions through systematic and digital energy and carbon management. GETECH's energy and carbon solutions explore the optimal solutions for semiconductor factory energy and dual-carbon in digital form, helping semiconductor enterprises maintain competitive advantages in the global dual-carbon transformation wave and promoting the long-term sustainable development of the semiconductor industry.
