Autumn starlight illuminated the gala as distinguished guests gathered once again to talk Sumeru. November 7, the StarCharge 2023 Sumeru Summit grandly opened in Changzhou, Jiangsu. Under the theme 'Energy-Carbon Dialogue, Net-Zero Future,' more than 1,000 participants — academicians, experts and scholars, government leaders, industry-chain leaders, ecosystem partners, and media — gathered around the 'dual carbon' (carbon peaking and carbon neutrality) goals, focusing on national strategy and industry development, grasping global technology innovation trends, co-creating scenario-level digital energy-carbon management solutions, and discussing together a beautiful 'zero-carbon' future. Sheng Lei, Mayor of Changzhou, attended and delivered an address, while Song Xudong, Second-Level Inspector of the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, and Qiao Junjie, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Changzhou Municipal Committee and Secretary of the Wujin District Party Committee, took part in the event.
01 Gathering Again at Sumeru, Scaling the Peak of 'New Energy' Together
As introduced, Mount Sumeru was originally the name of a mountain in Indian mythology. It was later adopted by Buddhist cosmology as a towering mountain standing at the center of the world, ringed by eight mountains and eight seas to form one world — hence Mount Sumeru is also regarded as the center of the universe and the highest point of the human world.
Energy in the real world, moreover, resonates with mythological accounts of power. Especially now, as the tide of energy conservation and emission reduction sweeps the globe, 'new energy' has become a mountain bound to the destiny of all humanity — one the whole world is eager to climb — and it carries StarCharge's ultimate dream of 'charging piles connecting the world, bringing hearts together.'
Interpreting technology through art, and empowering products with a humanistic spirit. In the blink of an eye, the Sumeru Summit has been successfully held three times. Today, with the energy crisis sweeping the globe and changes unseen in a century unfolding, how should we respond? 'Energy-Carbon Dialogue, Net-Zero Future' — the 2023 Sumeru Summit converses with the times and captures the pulse of development; the answers lie within.
02 Aggregating and Opening Up to Build a New World of Energy and Carbon
Looking back at the 2020 Sumeru Summit, StarCharge broke new ground in the industry, pioneering the concept of the 'Mobile Energy Internet' and offering a definition of greater significance for the era, sparking an industry-wide surge of interest: a spatiotemporally ubiquitous energy interconnection network built upon mobile vehicles, mobile energy carriers, mobile recharging facilities, and mobile communication terminals.
Three years — for a company, that is both a stretch of accumulation and a stretch of growth. Over these two years, StarCharge has kept exploring and innovating, pressing steadily toward 'building the world's largest Mobile Energy Internet.' On the day of the summit, StarCharge founder Ms. Shao Danwei announced the latest core strategy on site: focusing on the six links of the Mobile Energy Internet — production, storage, transmission, management, trading, and consumption — with a full product matrix, global standards, and full-stack in-house development, forming the StarCharge brand centered on the charging network and the Star Energy brand centered on energy microgrids, while fully opening the charging network, microgrids, and the virtual power plant operations network to support the building of digital and energy infrastructure.
03 Bits Define Watts: No Isolated Energy Grids
In today's digital and intelligent era, hardware is the cornerstone of the energy revolution, while software is the key to connecting that hardware and achieving efficient energy management and utilization.
On site, 8 hardware technology experts from StarCharge took the stage in rapid-fire lightning talks around the core theme of 'no isolated energy grids,' setting out from hard
ware devices such as V2G charging piles, PV inverters, commercial-and-industrial energy storage, residential energy storage, and charging robots to share the latest achievements in their respective fields of research.
The cloud platform team, from the angles of product, technology, and operations, revealed the entire process of connecting hardware devices through the charging network, microgrids, and the virtual power plant operations network and completing their interconnection — so that numerous scenarios such as commercial and industrial facilities, campuses, and homes are no longer isolated energy grids but instead form a more open, interconnected, efficient, and sustainable Mobile Energy Internet ecosystem. This profoundly interpreted the essence of 'bits define watts' and is also StarCharge's latest 'Cloud Microgrid' technology.
04 Strong Partnerships Building an Innovative 'Ecosystem'
The strength of any single company is often limited. Truly achieving the ambitious goal of a 'net-zero future' calls for more forward-looking business strategy and the participation of more ecosystem partners to jointly drive the industry's high-quality development. Notably, the Star Energy-Carbon SaaS Platform is also China's first free and open carbon inventory platform. Jointly built by the China Quality Certification Centre (CQC), TÜV Rheinland, Menglang Technology, and others, it provides full-value-chain digital solutions — free carbon screening, interconnected carbon standards, shared carbon data, online carbon certification, autonomous carbon trading, and co-built carbon ecosystems — truly digitizing carbon rights for the benefit of all society.
StarCharge has always upheld the development philosophy of 'strategic ecosystemization': stepping beyond traditional competitive thinking toward building a cooperative, win-win ecosystem, uniting every participant across the industry chain — suppliers, partners, and customers alike — to jointly drive the industry's high-quality development.
That evening, from the Star Energy-Carbon SaaS Platform to the release of premium automaker-brand charging stations and the debut of the co-branded credit card... with strong alliances, innovation-led growth, and symbiotic win-win cooperation, an 'ecosystem' and 'circle of friends' crafted by StarCharge is quietly taking shape.
In the future, StarCharge will continue to uphold its green, low-carbon, and sustainable development philosophy. Through the 'Sumeru' spirit of constant innovation and daring to scale the peaks, it will keep aspiring to the heights while staying grounded, joining hands with ecosystem partners up and down the industry chain to climb still higher in the energy industry and help the nation achieve its 'dual carbon' goals!
