Important milestone! China Power Construction makes a new breakthrough!

Recently, China Power Construction Corporation’s virtual power plant (VPP) business achieved a new breakthrough. The first VPP— the Ningxia regional virtual power plant project— officially went into operation on March 24. After the project is put into formal operation, it will fully leverage four core functions: ensuring reliable electricity supply and grid safety, enabling efficient curtailment and utilization of renewable energy, helping users save energy and reduce carbon emissions, and providing smart energy utilization services. It will offer users safer, more efficient, lower-carbon, and smarter energy services, helping to expand new business models in smart energy and improve the comprehensive energy services system.

The project began in August 2025. Through a full chain of coordinated efforts—including scheme design, platform development, resource aggregation, integrated commissioning and testing, and functional verification—it successfully passed the review of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Development and Reform Commission and received an official approval. This is a landmark project for the company’s Northwest Power Trading Company to deeply implement the national “dual carbon” strategy,落实 the Group’s digital transformation deployment, and build a distinctive service brand of “digital energy manager.” After the project is put into formal operation, it will fully leverage the four core functions: ensuring reliable electricity supply and grid safety, enabling efficient utilization of renewable energy, helping users save energy and reduce carbon emissions, and providing smart energy utilization services, thereby offering users safer, more efficient, lower-carbon, and smarter energy services and helping the company expand new smart energy business models and improve its comprehensive energy services system.

At the commissioning ceremony, Guo WanHong, Party Secretary and Chairman of China Power Construction’s power sales company, pointed out that the successful online launch of the virtual power plant is an important milestone in the company’s digital transformation and the progress of its green, low-carbon development. It is also an innovative practice in cultivating new quality productive forces and expanding new electricity service business models. He emphasized that the company is currently at a critical stage of the “15th-five-year plan” period (“Tenth Five-Year Plan” in the original text—if applicable, otherwise remove), transitioning into high-quality development and opening a new chapter. As a new type of digital, aggregated, and intelligent energy control platform, the virtual power plant is a key lever for the company to strengthen comprehensive service value-added enablement and enhance its core competitiveness in the market. It is of great significance for serving the construction of a new type of power system and for implementing the national “dual carbon” strategy.

Guo WanHong put forward three requirements regarding the project’s operation and subsequent development: first, focus on strategy, strengthen the core business—accelerate multi-province layout and large-scale operations for virtual power plants, continuously sharpen the “energy manager” service brand, and strive to build a new benchmark for smart power trading; second, reform and innovate, pursue excellence and continuous improvement—promote deep integration between the virtual power plant platform and renewable energy, energy storage, and comprehensive energy services, and continue cultivating new advantages in digital intelligence enabling; third, serve the overall situation and take on missions—fully play the core role of virtual power plants in energy supply assurance, green low-carbon development, and grid support, and demonstrate the new initiatives and responsibilities of a power investment enterprise.

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