September 25, the Sumeru Summit, a highly anticipated annual gala of the energy industry, was successfully held in Shanghai. The Sumeru Summit has always upheld the ethos of 'interpreting technology through art, and empowering products with a humanistic spirit,' leading the industry to 'climb Mount Sumeru together' and joining hands to bravely scale the peaks. Now successfully held for four editions, it has delivered numerous innovations and breakthroughs in the new energy field.
The organizer of this summit, Star Energy, took'Scenario-based microgrids, attentive to every need'as its theme, exploring in depth the vital value of the scenario-based microgrid as a bridge connecting new energy with the smart grid amid the global trends of green, low-carbon energy transition and high-quality development.
01 From StarCharge to Star Energy
As an innovation pioneer in the energy field, Star Energy not only founded StarCharge as early as 2014, but has also, through deep practice in integrated energy management across all kinds of scenarios, innovatively defined the scenario-based microgrid, with deep deployments spanning residential, community, plateau, rural, source-grid, commercial-and-industrial, campus, and PV-storage-charging station scenarios.
StarCharge is the brand rated 'No. 1 globally in cumulative charging pile sales over the past decade' — a distinction that marks not only StarCharge's outstanding achievements and global leadership in the charging pile field over the past ten years, but also its resolve and confidence in driving the high-quality development of EV charging infrastructure.
Star Energy was the first to define the 'scenario-based microgrid' and adopted 'safety, efficiency and long service life, open AI and full scenario coverage' as the technology roadmap underpinning it. The scenario-based microgrid enables highly efficient energy self-sufficiency, optimizing energy allocation and usage efficiency through digital and intelligent smart energy management to realize sustainable energy development.
Building on its existing strength of extensively deployed charging stations and its 'cloud-edge-terminal' model of fully self-developed product lines and highly efficient collaboration, Star Energy leverages the 'charging + energy' combination and lean operation of assets across scenarios to achieve a full industry-chain presence and continuous upgrading covering everything from charging to energy production, storage, management, consumption, and trading for new energy vehicles — completing the upgraded integration of the charging network, microgrids, and the Mobile Energy Internet. Through this, scenario-based microgrids run in a green, digital, 'zero-carbon' way, helping China achieve its 'dual carbon' (carbon peaking and carbon neutrality) goals at an early date.
02 Scenario-Based Microgrid = Star Energy
At the 2023 Sumeru Summit, Star Energy had already called on the industry to 'aggregate and open up, let bits define watts, and say no to isolated energy grids,' fully opening its charging network, microgrids, and virtual power plant operations network to support the building of digital and energy infrastructure. This year, it continues to champion interconnection, openness, efficiency, and intelligence, pressing steadily toward 'jointly building the world's largest Mobile Energy Internet.'
Distributed energy differs from the microgrid: distributed energy resources are unconnected isolated grids, whereas microgrids are networked; distributed energy is not smart enough — it cannot price autonomously and its profit model is monolithic — while the microgrid integrating source-grid-load-storage-charging-discharging-trading is highly intelligent, built on information infrastructure such as AI algorithms and big data models; distributed energy serves monotonous scenarios with unstable wind and solar supply, whereas the microgrid delivers 24-hour 'never-setting' power with uniform, stable supply. Wherever there is electricity consumption, there is a microgrid — this is both a vital component of the new-type power system and the dominant form and direction of future energy.
At this Sumeru Summit, Star Energy made a blockbuster release of 4 major product series and 8 major scenario-based microgrids — software defines hardware, algorithms define software, scenarios define algorithms, and trading connects scenarios.
As a hands-on expert in energy scenarios, Star Energy focuses more on key and critical scenarios, from scenario-based microgrid planning through scenario development. Facing different scenario application needs, industry needs, and market and customer needs, it defines products with technology and supports solutions with products. These can be residential and community scenarios, where self-use bidirectional charging and discharging systems ensure constant temperature and uninterrupted power; plateau and rural scenarios, where off-grid operation support makes charging and energy use more convenient and stable, encouraging more people to happily try new energy vehicles; commercial-and-industrial and campus scenarios, achieving lower costs and reliable supply; or source-grid and PV-storage-charging station scenarios, making energy smarter and more valuable.
Microgrids attentive to every need, precisely applied, are the guarantee of energy reliability. Long-life hardware brings customers greater safety and reliability, while scenario sharing and open AI bring the cost of energy use infinitely close to 0 yuan. 'Never-setting green power supply, lower costs and greater capacity across all scenarios' — this is precisely the mission and value that Star Energy unremittingly pursues.
03 Impressions of Sumeru: Change Is Happening
Climbing Mount Sumeru together, lighting the lamps together; from a spark to a prairie fire, onward to the sea of stars. Star Energy's scenario-based microgrids — full scenario coverage, an industry first — make clean energy more stable, more convenient, smarter, and more inclusive. Lower costs, reliable supply, high efficiency, and low carbon: we are all participants, and even more so beneficiaries. This pioneering undertaking not only sets a new benchmark for the energy industry but also provides powerful support for the global green, low-carbon energy transition.
Problems arise within scenarios, and solutions should grow in step with them — originating from scenarios, blending into scenarios, iterating through scenarios. By forging core technologies, we built core products; through the architecture of those core products, we deployed core solutions, truly giving every scenario the chance to reach carbon neutrality. All of this calls for more forward-looking business strategy and the participation of more ecosystem partners to jointly drive the industry's high-quality development.
In the future, Star Energy will carry forward its innovative spirit, leading the development of scenario-based microgrids and smart energy, and accelerating the 'attentive-to-every-need' application of scenario-based microgrids across every scenario, so that more people can feel the changes they bring to a clean, efficient, and intelligent energy life. Star Energy is committed to building a more open, interconnected, efficient, and sustainable Mobile Energy Internet, and hopes to join hands with more industry-chain ecosystem partners to co-create a green, sustainable, and brighter future!
