The western region of China is rich in renewable energy resources and bears the dual mission of ensuring energy security and achieving the “dual carbon” goals. Relying on its nationally leading wind and solar land resources, Inner Mongolia has built the world’s largest wind and photovoltaic cluster. Through integrated projects combining generation-grid-load-storage and initiatives such as “desert-gobi-wasteland” bases, it leads multi-energy collaborative innovation. In 2024, the proportion of new energy in Inner Mongolia not yet participating in market trading has fallen below 10%. Its degree of electricity marketization ranks among the highest in the country, reflecting the region’s unique market environment. New energy projects across the region can transition more rapidly to full market-based trading, and a reasonable transition for large-scale existing projects becomes crucial in responding to the volatile market environment. At the same time, it is urgent to address key constraints such as insufficient system flexibility, limited market revenue channels, and restricted cross-regional dispatching.

The issuance of the Notice on Deepening the Market-Oriented Reform of New Energy On-grid Electricity Prices and Promoting the High-Quality Development of New Energy (NDRC Price [2025] No. 136) has accelerated the process of comprehensive market participation of new energy, laying a solid policy foundation for the regulated development and value realization of large-scale energy storage and provide comprehensive guidance for the high-quality development of new energy storage.

Since its founding nine years ago, the Western China Energy Storage Forum has played an important role in promoting the healthy development of energy storage and the innovation of market mechanisms in western regions with a high proportion of renewable energy.

10th Western China Energy Storage Forum

The 10th Western China Energy Storage Forum will be hosted by the China Energy Research Society and the China Energy Storage Alliance. With the theme “Market-Driven, Ecologically Empowered: Energy Storage Driving the Construction of a Green Energy System in Western China,” it will focus on the pain points of energy transition in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, and Shaanxi:

1. Assisting in the construction of a new power system with higher security, flexibility, and intelligence;

2. Guiding transaction-based energy storage innovation to open up revenue channels involving electricity pricing mechanisms, trading rule differences, and accounting methods;

3. Promoting multi-energy collaborative development such as “wind-solar-storage-hydrogen” to enhance green electricity supply capacity;

4. Supporting power market reform to improve green electricity trading and cross-provincial consumption mechanisms.

The forum will assist Inner Mongolia in building a national-level energy trading hub, providing a “Western model” for constructing China’s new energy system, and contributing Chinese solutions for green energy development in global desertification areas.

I. Forum Information
Theme
Market-Driven, Ecologically Empowered: Energy Storage Driving the Construction of a Green Energy System in Western China
Date
August 19–21, 2025
Location
Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

II. Organizing Units
Organizer
China Energy Research Society
China Energy Storage Alliance

Host
Hohhot Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Center

Inner Mongolia Energy Storage Promotion Association

III. Concurrent Activities
CNESA DataLink 2025 First Half Energy Storage Data Release
High-End Energy Storage Closed-Door Seminar
4th General Assembly, 3rd Session – China Energy Storage Alliance
Energy Storage Thematic Seminar
Energy Storage Project Roadshow and Demand Matchmaking Session
Field Visit to Key Energy Storage Parks in Inner Mongolia

IV. Forum Highlights

1. Top Resources Converge to Build a Collaborative Ecosystem for the Energy Storage Industry Chain
   Government leaders, authoritative experts, senior executives from grid companies/power generation groups, and leading enterprises across the industry chain are invited. Taking into account regional resource endowment, grid structure, electricity market mechanisms, and technological maturity, the forum will jointly explore the construction of a coordinated system—centered on energy storage—featuring "technology adaptation + scenario integration + commercial sustainability" to drive high-quality large-scale energy storage development in the western region.

2. Focus on Frontiers and the Market to Accelerate Power System and Business Model Innovation
   With model scenarios such as Inner Mongolia’s “generation-grid-load-storage” bases, wind-solar-storage-hydrogen projects, and UHV outbound transmission channels, and centered on “power system innovation + market revenue drivers,” the forum will address key topics such as East/West Inner Mongolia market differences, green electricity trading, grid-forming energy storage, and virtual power plants, aiming to build a full-scenario energy ecosystem covering generation, storage, usage, and dispatch.

3. Precise Matchmaking to Activate Multi-Dimensional Resource Aggregation and Coordination
   Through a combination of closed-door seminars, demand-matchmaking sessions, and project visits, the forum will bring together grid and generation groups, local governments and enterprises, and green electricity buyers and sellers. With typical application scenarios like integrated generation-grid-load-storage, “desert-gobi-wasteland” bases, and zero-carbon parks, it will leverage demonstration projects to explore new directions in enterprise energy use and promote enterprise collaboration and localization in Inner Mongolia.

V. Intended Participants
Government Departments
National Energy Administration
Local Governments and Energy Authorities

Industry Units/Enterprises
Research Institutes, Universities
Power Generation Groups
Provincial Grid Companies in Western China
Leading Enterprises and Related Companies in the Energy Storage Industry Chain
Leading Enterprises in Hydrogen Energy and Long-Duration Energy Storage
Project Owners and Implementers of “Desert-Gobi-Wasteland,” Zero-Carbon Parks, Integrated PV+Storage+Charging Projects
Investors and Financial Institutions

VI. Forum Agenda

Agenda updates in progress...

VII. Forum Registration
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