In June, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly issued the "15th Five-Year Plan" for New Energy System Construction; in July, the "15th Five-Year Plan" for Renewable Energy Development was successively released, which will promote renewable energy to realize "scale expansion, quality improvement and reliable substitution" during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. How should photovoltaic and energy storage enterprises assess policies and implement them accurately at the industrial level? The 9th 2026 China International Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Industry Conference will give the answer from November 17 to 20.

As the top-level guiding document for China's energy transition and new power system construction in the next five years, the "15th Five-Year Plan" for New Energy System Construction has drawn a clear quantifiable track for the photovoltaic and energy storage industry: the installed capacity of new-type energy storage will reach 300 million kilowatts, more than doubling that at the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan"; the installed capacity of pumped storage will reach 160 million kilowatts; the regulation capacity of virtual power plants will reach more than 50 million kilowatts; the distribution network will strive to have the capacity to accommodate 900 million kilowatts of distributed new energy access. Throughout the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the total investment in key energy projects and new business forms is expected to exceed 20 trillion yuan, among which the investment in new quality productivity directions such as new-type energy storage, computing-power-energy coordination, and wind-solar-storage-hydrogen-ammonia-methanol integration will exceed 2 trillion yuan.

The top-level design has been finalized, the industrial transformation is accelerating, what opportunities and challenges will the industry usher in? The 9th 2026 China International Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Industry Conference will provide you with systematic answers. The conference will invite academicians, experts, technical leaders of leading enterprises and policy-making participants to conduct in-depth interpretations of core policies such as the "15th Five-Year Plan" energy storage plan, market-based capacity tariff mechanism, and source-grid-load-storage integration. From the assessment of the "15th Five-Year Plan" energy plan to the realization path of the 300 million kilowatts new-type energy storage installed capacity target, from the industrial implementation of long-duration energy storage technology routes to the establishment of virtual power plants as independent market entities, participating enterprises will obtain authoritative policy interpretations and market insights at the first time.

Roundtable Dialogue at the First Photovoltaic CTO Summit of the 8th 2025 China International Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Industry Conference

The 9th 2026 China International Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Industry Conference will closely follow the strategic demand of building a new power system during the critical "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and set up multiple parallel sessions highly consistent with the plan: the computing-power-energy coordination parallel session will focus on the trillion-yuan new track of "Artificial Intelligence + Energy", invite government departments, energy enterprises, leading technology enterprises and other parties to conduct in-depth interpretations of policy dividends. The New Energy Local Consumption Projects and Virtual Power Plant Integrated Development Forum will focus on key issues such as large-scale implementation of local consumption, market-oriented operation of virtual power plants, and deep integration of photovoltaic-storage-load. The 2nd Photovoltaic CTO Summit and Technology Innovation Conference will focus on cutting-edge trends such as space photovoltaic and perovskite technology research and development, invite CTOs of leading photovoltaic enterprises to gather in Chengdu to discuss future development.

The first Perovskite Industry Exhibition will be held concurrently with the conference, building a one-stop platform of "technology verification, scenario matching and capital connection". The energy storage themed parallel session will focus on hot topics such as "AI + Photovoltaic & Energy Storage", grid-forming energy storage, photovoltaic-storage microgrids, power spot market trading, long-duration energy storage, and discuss the industrialization paths of multiple technical routes such as lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, and all-vanadium flow batteries. The Global Photovoltaic & Energy Storage Innovative Technology Conference will share practical achievements such as green power direct connection, source-grid-load-storage integration, and zero-carbon parks. The International Energy Storage Application Market Development Forum will interpret the latest energy storage policies and discuss diversified market applications. An additional energy storage themed parallel session will be set up, focusing on hot topics such as grid-forming energy storage, photovoltaic-storage microgrids, and power spot market trading, to share new front-line practices. Each parallel session is a "implementation guide" for policies in segmented fields, full of valuable content, so stay tuned.

Exhibition Site of the 8th 2025 China International Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Industry Conference

The 9th 2026 China International Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Industry Conference will specially set up featured exhibition zones for "Photovoltaic-Storage-Charging Integration" and "Source-Grid-Load-Storage", systematically covering the entire energy storage industry chain, from energy storage cells, battery management systems, energy storage converters to system integration, from upstream key materials to end applications. At present, leading enterprises such as Sungrow Power, Tongwei Co., Ltd., Huawei, Xinyi Solar, CALB, and Hithium Energy Storage have confirmed their participation. The exhibition zones will focus on displaying high-safety and long-duration energy storage technologies for scenarios such as large-scale "desert, gobi and barren land" bases, as well as system solutions with deep photovoltaic-storage integration, allowing visitors to experience tangible and accessible products and technologies in person.

2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan". Policies and plans have pointed out the dual certainty of "scale growth" and "system consumption" for the photovoltaic and energy storage industry. However, how policies are implemented and how technical routes are selected, the answers to these questions will be optimized and developed in the dialogue and collision of the industry. From November 17 to 20, when the top-level design of the "15th Five-Year Plan" meets the top minds of the global photovoltaic and energy storage industry here, let's gather at the 9th 2026 China International Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Industry Conference, and focus on the photovoltaic and energy storage industry moving towards a new stage of high-quality development.