On November 15, the 2025 annual work meeting of the first batch of “14th Five-Year Plan” national energy R&D innovation platforms — the “National R&D Center for Energy Storage Equipment and System Integration Technology” (hereinafter referred to as: the Center) — was successfully held at the TBEA Headquarters Park in Wuqing District, Tianjin. The meeting was chaired by Sun Kai, Deputy Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University.

The meeting began with a speech by Kang Chongqing, Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Head of the Center, representing the lead construction unit. Sun Kai reported on behalf of the platform construction team the Center’s annual progress in key core technology breakthroughs, innovative platform team development, testing and pilot line construction, organizational management, and funding. He also summarized the Center’s mid-term achievements in supporting national strategic priorities, improving the national innovation system, driving industrial innovation, and ensuring industry safety and stability.

Kang Chongqing’s speech and Sun Kai’s report on behalf of the platform construction team

Researcher Ci Song from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, presented a special report titled “Hundred-Megawatt-Level Dynamic Reconfigurable Battery Energy Storage Technology — Theory, Technology, and Industrial Development.” Zhu Xiaoyi, Director of the Comprehensive Energy Technology Research Center of China Three Gorges Corporation; Wang Wei, Senior Research Specialist at China Mobile Communications Group Design Institute Co., Ltd.; Li Yanhong, Chief Engineer of the Energy Storage Division, China Huadian Engineering Co., Ltd.; Dong Yue, R&D Technical Director, TBEA Co., Ltd.; and Han Shuaishuai, Director of Cell Material Development, CATL New Energy Battery Technology Co., Ltd., each reported on their respective unit’s annual progress in supporting the Center’s construction tasks.

Annual progress reports from participating units (selected images)

An expert review panel composed of Liang Jianyong, former Director of the Information Center of the National Energy Administration; Yang Jun, Deputy Chief Economist of the Electric Power Planning and Design Institute; Gan Zhiyong, Chief Engineer of the Power Electronics Institute, State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Research Institute; and Li Xialin, Professor of the School of Electrical Automation and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, listened to the reports and evaluated the platform’s construction progress. After evaluation, the panel fully affirmed the Center’s annual work achievements and its leading role in the industry, recognized the organizational contribution of the lead construction unit, and expected that the Center would focus on the “race to excellence” track in the future, further systematize, advance, and highlight the distinctive advantages of its achievements, promote the application of R&D results, and ensure the completion of all construction tasks within the three-year race period.

Expert inquiry and evaluation (selected images)

The “National R&D Center for Energy Storage Equipment and System Integration Technology” is led by Tsinghua University, with participation from China Three Gorges Corporation, China Mobile Communications Group Design Institute Co., Ltd., China Huadian Engineering Co., Ltd., TBEA Co., Ltd., CATL New Energy Battery Technology Co., Ltd., and Tsinghua Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute. The Center applied to the first batch of national energy R&D innovation platforms under the “14th Five-Year Plan” of the National Energy Administration in September 2021 and was officially approved as a “race to excellence” innovation platform in May 2023, with the track focused on “electrochemical energy storage system integration and safety.” The Center successfully passed its mid-term evaluation in March 2025.