[Shenzhen, China, September 16] The 4th International Digital Energy Expo (IDEE 2026) was held from September 15 to 17. At IDEE 2026, Huawei Digital Power showcased its latest practices of "grid forming + AI" in renewable energy applications with the theme of "Making the Most of Every Ray, Powering the Unpowered." The company presented its solutions for utility, grid-forming energy storage system (ESS), smart microgrids, commercial and industrial (C&I) green power, ultra-fast charging, and grid-interactive AI data center (AIDC).
From supporting the stable grid integration of high proportions of renewable energy, to driving its large-scale development and optimizing energy asset returns, and from enhancing weak power grids to advancing energy inclusivity, Huawei delivers systematic solutions powered by grid-forming technology and AI. By continuously enhancing the stability, cost-effectiveness, and reliability of renewable energy systems, Huawei is helping accelerate global efforts to bridge the electricity divide.
Utility: Grid-Forming Stability Meets Full-Lifecycle AI
Huawei's FusionSolar9.0 Utiity PV Solution unveiled three industry-leading breakthrough innovations: the industry's first 1000Vac solution, the industry's first grid-forming string inverter, and the industry's largest 11MW smart transformer station. This solution further enhances the capabilities of large renewable plants in terms of performance ratio, grid friendliness, and smart operation and maintenance (O&M) through grid forming and AI.
The innovative grid-forming smart string inverter features grid awareness and oscillation damping. In terms of AI, the FusionSolar Agent, based on the device-edge-cloud collaboration foundation, uses the goal-driven agent paradigm to improve O&M efficiency and maximize the full-lifecycle value of plants. This helps customers address challenges in electricity marketization and achieve higher overall benefits. On September 10, 2026, Huawei's Smart I-V Curve Diagnosis solution successfully passed the L5 test, the highest level of certification, from China General Certification Center, becoming the industry's first solution to achieve this certification.
FusionSolar9.0 Utiity PV Solution is designed to meet all scenarios of PV plants, delivering four core customer values: optimized investment returns, enhanced grid-forming capabilities, efficient O&M, and superior safety & reliability.
Grid-Forming ESS: Stabilizing Grids and Enhancing Smart Operation Capabilities
Based on years of continuous innovation, Huawei has developed six plant-level grid-forming capabilities, including short-circuit capacity support, inertia response, wideband oscillation damping, primary frequency regulation, black start, and seamless on/off-grid switching. These capabilities ensure stable grid forming for the entire plant, under all working conditions and at all times. Currently, grid-forming technology is being extended from ESS to PV and load scenarios, forming a full-link simulation and modeling capability from single units, multiple units, microgrids, plants, to systems.
At this exhibition, Huawei showcased its new-generation Smart String Grid Forming ESS Solution, which focuses on all-scenario grid forming, full-lifecycle cost-effectiveness, full-architecture safety, and full-link intelligence. The solution features five innovations, including the industry's first 1000 V AC smart string architecture, through-busbar architecture, and plant-level grid forming technology. It supports 1000 V AC voltage and the industry's optimal 12.5 MW/50 MWh array, improving performance ratio and delivery efficiency while further unleashing the revenue potential throughout the lifecycle. In addition, the solution provides more accurate digital support for electricity trading based on the digital twin platform, and builds a cell-to-grid, full-lifecycle safety assurance system. Huawei is committed to continuous technological innovation to create higher value for customers and facilitate the construction of new power systems.
Smart Microgrid: Balancing Stable Power Supply and Economical Energy Use
To address the dual challenges of power stability and cost-effectiveness, Huawei's Smart Microgrid Solution implements hierarchical control at the local control layer, coordinated control layer, and optimized dispatch layer, achieving a balance between stable power supply and economical energy use. With high quality and efficiency, stable grid forming, and lower levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), this solution has been implemented in many areas worldwide with no or insufficient electricity. The Red Sea destination, Saudi Arabia, is the world's first GWh-level microgrid project. Having operated stably for three years with a 99.9% reliability rate, it has delivered over 2 billion kWh of green electricity.
In terms of grid-forming capability, the solution supports strong and weak grid adaptation, PQ/VSG switching, and full VSG mode operation. The switching time between on-grid and off-grid modes at medium voltage is 40 ms. In addition, the solution can be verified in complex working conditions through Huawei's Grid-Forming Energy Storage Platform Application and Testing Center base in Shanghai Zhaoxiang, China. In terms of cost-effectiveness, the solution supports a grid-forming SOC range of 5% to 98% and parallel operation of multiple voltage sources with the ESS and gensets. This further improves the system configuration flexibility and energy efficiency while ensuring stable power supply.
C&I Green Power: Grid Forming Unleashes the Value of Generation-Grid-Load-Storage Synergy
Huawei showcased the C&I One-Fits-All Solution, designed for various scenarios, including PV-only, ESS-only, PV+ESS, charger+ESS, and virtual power plant (VPP). It features a comprehensive suite of solutions, including PV+ESS (generation), all-scenario grid forming (grid), digital energy management platform (cloud), fully liquid-cooled ultra-fast charging (load), and Hybrid Cooling Grid Forming ESS Solution (storage). Huawei also shared its global rollout practices of this solution.
As for energy storage, Huawei introduced its 241 kWh series C&I Hybrid Cooling Grid Forming ESS Solution. As the world's first grid-forming ESS with air and liquid cooling, this product upgrades the traditional single cooling mode to a smart hybrid cooling mode through an innovative thermal management architecture. It also introduces the innovative "pack-level optimization 2.0" technology, effectively improving the available capacity of the ESS and unleashing the battery potential. The product achieves a round-trip efficiency (RTE) of 91.8% and a depth of discharge (DOD) of 100%, exceeding the industry average.
Based on multiple business models, such as maximum self-consumption, time-of-use (TOU) arbitrage, demand management, power distribution capacity expansion, critical power backup, and market-based trading, Huawei's solution meets energy consumption requirements in different scenarios while achieving lower LCOE and helping customers obtain long-term benefits. This solution further integrates stable and economical green energy into the production and operations of various industries, facilitating the green transformation.
Huawei FusionCharge: AI-Powered PV+ESS+Charger for All-Scenario Ultra-fast Charging Networks
Huawei FusionCharge leverages AI to build a PV+ESS+charger microgrid that collaborates with the grid, ESS, and PV systems to provide high-quality charging solutions for passenger and commercial vehicles, and to build a closed-loop ultra-fast charging system. The integrated PV+ESS+charger solution is a complete set of Huawei-developed solutions, improving product reliability and ensuring stable operation of charging stations. The system provides dual protection for the grid and devices, adapting to grid requirements and achieving zero pollution. The ESS uses hybrid air and liquid cooling to effectively protect charging devices and vehicle batteries from end to end, ensuring the safety of charging stations and vehicles. Additionally, the Huawei-developed advanced AI scheduling algorithm is used to break the traditional fixed scheduling mode of charging stations, and truly implement charging optimization per parking spot and customized policy per charging station. With the second-level dynamic response capability, the system dynamically adjusts the charging power based on the PV power, electricity price, and vehicle flow in seconds. This helps increase the overall revenue of charging stations by more than 15%, making the operation of charging stations more efficient.
Meanwhile, Huawei FusionCharge continues to work with partners in different scenarios, such as logistics, cities, and highways. By collaborating with the platform, brand, and ecosystem, Huawei aims to build a grid-friendly, user-friendly, and operationally excellent ultra-fast charging network, jointly charging the road ahead.
Grid-Interactive AIDC: "3+1" Redefining Compute Infrastructure
In the AI era, the high-density and diversified compute has significantly transformed the characteristics of AIDC. The power of a single rack is moving toward the megawatt level, and the campus scale is moving toward the gigawatt level. In addition, weak power grids and highly fluctuating loads are becoming more prevalent. As a result, grid-interactive AIDC has become an inevitable choice. By leveraging "3+1" innovations, Huawei builds the grid-interactive AIDC that is reliable, energy-efficient, fast to deliver, and grid-friendly to maximize tokens per watt.
From power grids to chips, the solution redefines power supply links. Huawei will build a MIMO power supply architecture centered on the grid-friendly uninterruptible power system (UPS) and grid-forming ESS to flexibly meet the high-density power supply requirements of AIDC. From chips to outdoor equipment, it builds a safe and reliable thermal management system throughout the entire lifecycle. Huawei innovatively builds an AI-enabled megawatt-level liquid cooling system, achieving more efficient and reliable heat dissipation, and leading the way in long-term and reliable liquid cooling. In addition, AI empowers data centers, making the entire lifecycle of data centers digital and intelligent from design and delivery to operations, achieving full-link visibility, full-link reliability, and efficient O&M. In terms of construction model, Huawei has implemented productization of engineering, moving the entire process of design, production, testing, and verification to the factory. Only simple installation is required on site, greatly shortening the delivery period, improving the delivery quality, and enabling fast replication of products.
Huawei Digital Power always regards quality as the first element of development, and integrates high quality into the entire process of research and development, supply, manufacturing, and services, building a full-link quality assurance system from components to systems. Quality is not only measured by parameters and standards, but also demonstrated through real-world scenarios and long-term performance to fulfill commitments. Through long-term practices in different regions and environments around the world, Huawei products have been verified in complex scenarios such as extreme cold, high temperature, and high altitude, and their actual performance generally exceeds expectations.
Looking ahead, Huawei Digital Power will continue to promote product and solution innovation with a high-quality strategy, create value for customers with long-term reliable products proven through practical verification, and work with industry partners to continuously improve the industry quality level, forging excellence and delivering high value.
[Shenzhen, China, September 16] The 4th International Digital Energy Expo (IDEE 2026) was held from September 15 to 17. At IDEE 2026, Huawei Digital Power showcased its latest practices of "grid forming + AI" in renewable energy applications with the theme of "Making the Most of Every Ray, Powering the Unpowered." The company presented its solutions for utility, grid-forming energy storage system (ESS), smart microgrids, commercial and industrial (C&I) green power, ultra-fast charging, and grid-interactive AI data center (AIDC).
From supporting the stable grid integration of high proportions of renewable energy, to driving its large-scale development and optimizing energy asset returns, and from enhancing weak power grids to advancing energy inclusivity, Huawei delivers systematic solutions powered by grid-forming technology and AI. By continuously enhancing the stability, cost-effectiveness, and reliability of renewable energy systems, Huawei is helping accelerate global efforts to bridge the electricity divide.
Utility: Grid-Forming Stability Meets Full-Lifecycle AI
Huawei's FusionSolar9.0 Utiity PV Solution unveiled three industry-leading breakthrough innovations: the industry's first 1000Vac solution, the industry's first grid-forming string inverter, and the industry's largest 11MW smart transformer station. This solution further enhances the capabilities of large renewable plants in terms of performance ratio, grid friendliness, and smart operation and maintenance (O&M) through grid forming and AI.
The innovative grid-forming smart string inverter features grid awareness and oscillation damping. In terms of AI, the FusionSolar Agent, based on the device-edge-cloud collaboration foundation, uses the goal-driven agent paradigm to improve O&M efficiency and maximize the full-lifecycle value of plants. This helps customers address challenges in electricity marketization and achieve higher overall benefits. On September 10, 2026, Huawei's Smart I-V Curve Diagnosis solution successfully passed the L5 test, the highest level of certification, from China General Certification Center, becoming the industry's first solution to achieve this certification.
FusionSolar9.0 Utiity PV Solution is designed to meet all scenarios of PV plants, delivering four core customer values: optimized investment returns, enhanced grid-forming capabilities, efficient O&M, and superior safety & reliability.
Grid-Forming ESS: Stabilizing Grids and Enhancing Smart Operation Capabilities
Based on years of continuous innovation, Huawei has developed six plant-level grid-forming capabilities, including short-circuit capacity support, inertia response, wideband oscillation damping, primary frequency regulation, black start, and seamless on/off-grid switching. These capabilities ensure stable grid forming for the entire plant, under all working conditions and at all times. Currently, grid-forming technology is being extended from ESS to PV and load scenarios, forming a full-link simulation and modeling capability from single units, multiple units, microgrids, plants, to systems.
At this exhibition, Huawei showcased its new-generation Smart String Grid Forming ESS Solution, which focuses on all-scenario grid forming, full-lifecycle cost-effectiveness, full-architecture safety, and full-link intelligence. The solution features five innovations, including the industry's first 1000 V AC smart string architecture, through-busbar architecture, and plant-level grid forming technology. It supports 1000 V AC voltage and the industry's optimal 12.5 MW/50 MWh array, improving performance ratio and delivery efficiency while further unleashing the revenue potential throughout the lifecycle. In addition, the solution provides more accurate digital support for electricity trading based on the digital twin platform, and builds a cell-to-grid, full-lifecycle safety assurance system. Huawei is committed to continuous technological innovation to create higher value for customers and facilitate the construction of new power systems.
Smart Microgrid: Balancing Stable Power Supply and Economical Energy Use
To address the dual challenges of power stability and cost-effectiveness, Huawei's Smart Microgrid Solution implements hierarchical control at the local control layer, coordinated control layer, and optimized dispatch layer, achieving a balance between stable power supply and economical energy use. With high quality and efficiency, stable grid forming, and lower levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), this solution has been implemented in many areas worldwide with no or insufficient electricity. The Red Sea destination, Saudi Arabia, is the world's first GWh-level microgrid project. Having operated stably for three years with a 99.9% reliability rate, it has delivered over 2 billion kWh of green electricity.
In terms of grid-forming capability, the solution supports strong and weak grid adaptation, PQ/VSG switching, and full VSG mode operation. The switching time between on-grid and off-grid modes at medium voltage is 40 ms. In addition, the solution can be verified in complex working conditions through Huawei's Grid-Forming Energy Storage Platform Application and Testing Center base in Shanghai Zhaoxiang, China. In terms of cost-effectiveness, the solution supports a grid-forming SOC range of 5% to 98% and parallel operation of multiple voltage sources with the ESS and gensets. This further improves the system configuration flexibility and energy efficiency while ensuring stable power supply.
C&I Green Power: Grid Forming Unleashes the Value of Generation-Grid-Load-Storage Synergy
Huawei showcased the C&I One-Fits-All Solution, designed for various scenarios, including PV-only, ESS-only, PV+ESS, charger+ESS, and virtual power plant (VPP). It features a comprehensive suite of solutions, including PV+ESS (generation), all-scenario grid forming (grid), digital energy management platform (cloud), fully liquid-cooled ultra-fast charging (load), and Hybrid Cooling Grid Forming ESS Solution (storage). Huawei also shared its global rollout practices of this solution.
As for energy storage, Huawei introduced its 241 kWh series C&I Hybrid Cooling Grid Forming ESS Solution. As the world's first grid-forming ESS with air and liquid cooling, this product upgrades the traditional single cooling mode to a smart hybrid cooling mode through an innovative thermal management architecture. It also introduces the innovative "pack-level optimization 2.0" technology, effectively improving the available capacity of the ESS and unleashing the battery potential. The product achieves a round-trip efficiency (RTE) of 91.8% and a depth of discharge (DOD) of 100%, exceeding the industry average.
Based on multiple business models, such as maximum self-consumption, time-of-use (TOU) arbitrage, demand management, power distribution capacity expansion, critical power backup, and market-based trading, Huawei's solution meets energy consumption requirements in different scenarios while achieving lower LCOE and helping customers obtain long-term benefits. This solution further integrates stable and economical green energy into the production and operations of various industries, facilitating the green transformation.
Huawei FusionCharge: AI-Powered PV+ESS+Charger for All-Scenario Ultra-fast Charging Networks
Huawei FusionCharge leverages AI to build a PV+ESS+charger microgrid that collaborates with the grid, ESS, and PV systems to provide high-quality charging solutions for passenger and commercial vehicles, and to build a closed-loop ultra-fast charging system. The integrated PV+ESS+charger solution is a complete set of Huawei-developed solutions, improving product reliability and ensuring stable operation of charging stations. The system provides dual protection for the grid and devices, adapting to grid requirements and achieving zero pollution. The ESS uses hybrid air and liquid cooling to effectively protect charging devices and vehicle batteries from end to end, ensuring the safety of charging stations and vehicles. Additionally, the Huawei-developed advanced AI scheduling algorithm is used to break the traditional fixed scheduling mode of charging stations, and truly implement charging optimization per parking spot and customized policy per charging station. With the second-level dynamic response capability, the system dynamically adjusts the charging power based on the PV power, electricity price, and vehicle flow in seconds. This helps increase the overall revenue of charging stations by more than 15%, making the operation of charging stations more efficient.
Meanwhile, Huawei FusionCharge continues to work with partners in different scenarios, such as logistics, cities, and highways. By collaborating with the platform, brand, and ecosystem, Huawei aims to build a grid-friendly, user-friendly, and operationally excellent ultra-fast charging network, jointly charging the road ahead.
Grid-Interactive AIDC: "3+1" Redefining Compute Infrastructure
In the AI era, the high-density and diversified compute has significantly transformed the characteristics of AIDC. The power of a single rack is moving toward the megawatt level, and the campus scale is moving toward the gigawatt level. In addition, weak power grids and highly fluctuating loads are becoming more prevalent. As a result, grid-interactive AIDC has become an inevitable choice. By leveraging "3+1" innovations, Huawei builds the grid-interactive AIDC that is reliable, energy-efficient, fast to deliver, and grid-friendly to maximize tokens per watt.
From power grids to chips, the solution redefines power supply links. Huawei will build a MIMO power supply architecture centered on the grid-friendly uninterruptible power system (UPS) and grid-forming ESS to flexibly meet the high-density power supply requirements of AIDC. From chips to outdoor equipment, it builds a safe and reliable thermal management system throughout the entire lifecycle. Huawei innovatively builds an AI-enabled megawatt-level liquid cooling system, achieving more efficient and reliable heat dissipation, and leading the way in long-term and reliable liquid cooling. In addition, AI empowers data centers, making the entire lifecycle of data centers digital and intelligent from design and delivery to operations, achieving full-link visibility, full-link reliability, and efficient O&M. In terms of construction model, Huawei has implemented productization of engineering, moving the entire process of design, production, testing, and verification to the factory. Only simple installation is required on site, greatly shortening the delivery period, improving the delivery quality, and enabling fast replication of products.
Huawei Digital Power always regards quality as the first element of development, and integrates high quality into the entire process of research and development, supply, manufacturing, and services, building a full-link quality assurance system from components to systems. Quality is not only measured by parameters and standards, but also demonstrated through real-world scenarios and long-term performance to fulfill commitments. Through long-term practices in different regions and environments around the world, Huawei products have been verified in complex scenarios such as extreme cold, high temperature, and high altitude, and their actual performance generally exceeds expectations.
Looking ahead, Huawei Digital Power will continue to promote product and solution innovation with a high-quality strategy, create value for customers with long-term reliable products proven through practical verification, and work with industry partners to continuously improve the industry quality level, forging excellence and delivering high value.
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