Huawei Digital Power has unveiled its ‘Source-Grid-Load-Storage AIDC’ strategy targeting next-generation AI data centers (AIDCs), integrating renewable energy, grid-forming energy storage, liquid cooling, and computing-power coordination.
The solution focuses on 4 areas: power supply, thermal management, intelligent operation and maintenance, and construction models. Huawei said the power architecture combines grid-forming inverters with high-voltage DC and AC/DC converged systems, while thermal management centers on MW-scale liquid cooling technologies.
For operation and maintenance, the company plans to integrate AI across data center design, delivery, and operations. Huawei also proposed prefabricated and modular construction approaches to accelerate deployment.
Alongside the strategy, Huawei launched 2 products: the Power POD, featuring up to 3.2 MW single-cabinet outdoor power supply capacity, and the IT POD, designed for liquid-cooled AIDC applications.
Earlier this year, CATL terminated its proposed acquisition of Huawei Digital Power after negotiations stalled over valuation (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
China Resources New Energy, the new energy development arm of CR Power, has received approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) for its Shenzhen main-board IPO.
The company plans to raise RMB 24.5 billion, which would be the largest new energy IPO on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange if successful. The company plans to invest the proceeds into projects totaling 7.18 GW of new installation capacity.
By the end of 2025, China Resources New Energy reported controlling grid-connected capacity of 41.59 GW, including 27.63 GW of wind power and 13.96 GW of solar PV.
Reporting its FY2025 financial results in March, CR Power announced it had grid-connected nearly 7 GW of new solar capacity in 2025 (see China Solar PV News Snippets).
China has officially implemented GB/T 47032-2026, its first national standard for evaluating the operational performance of hybrid wind, solar, and energy storage power plants.
The standard establishes a unified assessment framework covering energy efficiency, reliability, operation & maintenance (O&M), and electricity market trading for co-located wind-storage, solar-storage, and integrated wind-solar-storage projects.
Key performance indicators include energy utilization rate, equivalent full-load hours, availability factor, unplanned outage factor, cooperation factor, O&M costs per unit capacity and per kWh, as well as the proportion and settlement price of market-traded electricity.
State-owned energy group CHN Energy plans to establish 20 regional virtual power plants (VPPs) by 2027 and achieve full regional VPP coverage by 2030.
As of late April 2026, the group had commissioned 12 VPP projects aggregating more than 5.5 GW of resources and 485 MW of dispatchable capacity.
Its subsidiary Longyuan Power has also launched CHN Energy’s first inter-provincial VPP platform, aggregating 93.5 MW of distributed solar and energy storage resources across 9 provinces and municipalities, including Tianjin and Hebei.
CHN Energy said it will continue expanding pilot VPP projects in provinces including Hainan and Henan, while exploring new business models such as ‘green power direct supply + VPP’.