Towards Green, New, and Intelligent—the special event on the value transformation of green electricity was successfully held in Kunming

On August 18, the 2026 Tengchong Scientists Forum · Special Event on Green Power Value Transformation was held at Haigeng Hall in Kunming.This event focuses on the exploration and transformation of diverse green power values,Fromuniversities, research institutes, key enterprises, industry associations, andMore than 300 guests from government departments gathered by Dianchi Lake to discuss the path to green power value transformation and discuss major plans for green development.

Chairman of the Tengchong Scientist Forum, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and former President of Tsinghua UniversityGu Binglin, Standing Committee Member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Vice Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative ConferenceLi Malin, Director of the Department of New and Renewable Energy at the National Energy AdministrationLi ChuangjunSeparate speeches. Deputy Director of the Yunnan Provincial Energy BureauChen FanIntroducing the development of green energy and industries in Yunnan Province.Member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Deputy Director of the Office of the Tengchong Scientist Forum Organizing CommitteeStill attending the autumn courtPresiding over the opening ceremony.

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Honorary Chairman of the Expert Committee of China Southern Power Grid CorporationLi Liwei, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director of the Carbon Neutrality Research Institute at Tsinghua University, and Member of the Academic Committee of the Tengchong Scientist ForumHe Kebin, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chairman of the Shandong Association for Science and TechnologyLing Wen, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director of the Academic Committee of Beijing Jiaotong UniversityZhang Hongke，Deputy Director of the Hydropower and Water Conservancy Planning and Design InstituteZhang Yiguo, Deputy Director of the Electric Power Planning and Design InstituteZhang JianExperts delivered keynote speeches, sharing their views on cutting-edge topics.Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Chief Scientist of China Power Construction CorporationZhang ZongliangPresided over the keynote speech session.

In his speech, Academician Gu Binglin stated that against the backdrop of the global energy revolution and the advancement of the "dual carbon" strategy, green power has become a core strategic resource. Promoting the diversified transformation of green power value is a key lever to ensure national energy security and cultivate new quality productive forces. He proposed that promoting the transformation of green power value requires adhering to technological leadership, strengthening the foundation of innovation, using industry as the foundation to amplify the physical effect, talent as the soul, and building strong intellectual support, making the Tengchong Scientist Forum a bridge connecting high-end intelligence with local needs, helping to continuously enhance Yunnan's green electricity competitiveness.

Vice Chairman Li Malin stated,In recent years, Yunnan has continuously deepened reforms in the electricity market, improved green power trading and green certificate issuance mechanisms, vigorously cultivated integrated application scenarios such as "green power + advanced manufacturing" and "green power + intelligent computing." Industries such as green aluminum, silicon photovoltaics, and new energy batteries have grown steadily based on green electricity advantages. YunnanWe look forward to academicians and experts providing intellectual support to break through technical and mechanism bottlenecks, and warmly welcome enterprises to settle in Yunnan and lay out low-carbon industries.

Director Li Chuangjun stated in his speech that in the first half of this year, China's total installed renewable energy capacity exceeded 2.4 billion kilowatts, accounting for more than 40% of power generation for the first time, and the landscape of green electricity consumption is rapidly being reshaped.Yunnan is considered part of our countryAs an important clean energy base and a key province for West-to-East power transmission, renewable energy accounts for over 90%, power generation exceeds 80%, and value conversion results are remarkable.The National Energy Administration will focus on policy implementation, market system improvement, and standards certification construction,Promote the full realization of green power environmental value, while also hoping Yunnan will continue to take the lead in trials and explore more replicable experiences.

Deputy Director Chen Fan gave a live presentation on Yunnan's green energy and industrial development, systematically introducing Yunnan's three core advantages: green power resource endowment, location openness, and reform and innovation. In the future, Yunnan will focus on enhancing green power supply capacity, intensifying green power investment promotion, and promoting the connection between electricity, securities, and carbon emissions, continuously transforming green power advantages into high-quality development momentum.

At the event, two landmark achievements in Yunnan's green power value transformation were officially announced, showcasing Yunnan's exploration achievements from mechanism innovation to industrial practice.

• Kunming Electric Power Trading Center's "Green Power Traceability, Certification Benefits Ten Thousand Enterprises" practice of free transfer of existing conventional hydropower green certificates in Yunnan

The first system—market-driven—enables green electricity to be "produced, delivered, and used well." The nation's first regulated capacity market was established and operational, with new energy storage installations exceeding 6.25 million kilowatts, firmly holding the top position in the south—contributing a mature "Yunnan solution" to the high proportion of new energy consumption.

The second system—traceability empowerment—makes green electricity "accurate, trustworthy, and truly valuable." Relying on "blockchain + energy" technology, it became the first in the country to solve the problem of transferring existing conventional hydropower green certificates, and a full-chain tamper-proof traceability system has been established and put into operation.

Implementation results: To date, a total of 303 million green certificates have been transferred free of charge, benefiting 76,000 enterprises, covering specialty industries such as electrolytic aluminum and silicon photovoltaics, saving enterprises about 1.5 billion yuan in expenses.

• Yunnan Aluminum Co., Ltd.'s "Green Power Leads, Aluminum Creates the Future" Green Power Value Transformation Practice

Relying on Yunnan's unique hydropower endowment, Yunnan Aluminum has built a value transformation system featuring digital intelligence for efficiency, carbon-empowered products, recycling, and green supply chain collaboration. The independently developed "Green Aluminum Cloud Huijian" industrial large model was selected as a typical AI case by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, equipping high-energy industries with intelligent brains.They have overcome the resource utilization technology of aluminum ash, built the country's first related production line, and won the Gold Award at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, providing a replicable model for the realization of green electricity value in the high energy-bearing industry nationwide.

This event facilitated the centralized signing of a number of investment attraction and talent recruitment projects, driving the realization of green power value through practical results.

In terms of investment promotion, a total of 10 signed projects were solicited, with a total investment of 6.957 billion yuan. The projects cover multiple fields including zero-carbon park construction, integrated source-grid-load-storage solutions, all-vanadium flow energy storage manufacturing, wind-solar complementary development, cross-border photovoltaic EPC, and direct green power connections, further extending Yunnan's green power industry chain and expanding green power application scenarios.

In terms of talent recruitment and talent introduction, a total of 11 cooperation projects have been implemented, covering technical directions such as ultra-high proportion new energy power system stability, intelligent construction of large-scale hydropower projects, smart energy and carbon management in zero-carbon parks, and landslide disaster monitoring and early warning. Through diversified models such as full-time recruitment, flexible talent recruitment, and team collaboration, high-end intellectual support is injected into Yunnan's green power industry and low-carbon technology innovation.

Six academicians and experts focused on cutting-edge areas such as new power systems, zero-carbon parks, digital-energy integration, and technological empowerment, offering advice and suggestions for the value transformation of green electricity in Yunnan.

Academician Li Liwei shared on "Yunnan's Green Power Advantages and Support for Economic Growth," pointing out that Yunnan is uniquely rich in wind, solar, and water resources and complementary multiple energy sources, with wind power utilization hours exceeding the national average, and enormous potential for new energy development. He proposed that Yunnan should vigorously develop new energy, build national-level new energy bases and pure new energy delivery bases, promote energy storage from project support to system configuration, expand consumption scenarios such as direct green power connection and green power + digital economy, and effectively transform green power advantages into economic growth drivers.

Academician He Kebin focused on the construction of zero-carbon parks and the transformation of Yunnan's low-carbon value, interpreting the policy orientation for dual control of carbon emissions and the construction of zero-carbon parks during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. He proposed that zero-carbon parks should build an intelligent management system integrating "energy flow - logistics - carbon flow - information flow," with the core of green power value conversion being accountable, verifiable, and transferable. His team is collaborating with local institutions in Yunnan to tackle technologies related to zero-carbon parks, building a localized carbon footprint database, and helping Yunnan transform its green power advantages into product and industrial competitive advantages.

Academician Ling Wen, with the core perspective of "digital computing energy networks," proposed that maximizing the release of green electricity value requires deep integration with manufacturing upgrading and digital economy development. He emphasized that for artificial intelligence to be implemented in the real economy, Yunnan should leverage its green power resource advantages to promote the coordinated development of "green power + computing power + high-end manufacturing," develop diversified energy storage technologies such as heat and cooling according to local conditions, and use green electricity as the core resource to drive regional industrial upgrading and improve people's well-being.

From the perspective of new internet technologies, Academician Zhang Hongke systematically outlined the evolution paths of new technologies, deeply analyzed the challenges faced by network determinism, security, and intelligence in new scenarios, and provided new ideas for power system management and energy internet construction.

Vice President Zhang Yiguo systematically analyzed the development trends of the national green electricity consumption market, pointing out that green electricity is upgrading from basic energy to a comprehensive strategic resource, and corporate green electricity consumption is shifting from a "bonus" to a "mandatory option." He suggested that Yunnan leverage its unique advantage of stable all-weather green power supply, empower industrial upgrading with "green power + green manufacturing," build a coordinated electricity and carbon certificate-carbon system, create a localized carbon footprint factor database, strengthen precise investment promotion and brand building, and fully unleash the multidimensional value of green electricity.

Vice President Zhang Jian proposed specific paths to realize the high value of green electricity in Yunnan, suggesting that Yunnan establish a comprehensive green certificate comprehensive hardware and software system and build a coordinated operation platform for electricity, certificates, and carbon; Explore distinctive market mechanisms to promote innovation in cross-provincial and cross-border green electricity trading; Deeply explore green power collaborative scenarios, build green power investment brands, establish zero-carbon park models, promote direct green power connection models, and simultaneously align with international standards to build mutual recognition systems and explore replicable green power value realization models.

The keynote speech session was chaired by Academician Zhang Zongliang.

This special event is an important initiative by the Tengchong Scientists Forum to serve Yunnan's green development. By building a platform for industry-university-research-application matchmaking, it has further consolidated consensus on the value transformation of green electricity and solidified the foundation for industrial and talent implementation. That afternoon, the event also featured four parallel activities: "Green Manufacturing and Industrial Upgrading," "Market Mechanisms and Green Certificate Practice," "Carbon Market and Carbon Footprint Construction," and "Zero-Carbon Park Construction and Practice," continuously deepening exchanges and exploration in specialized fields, injecting lasting momentum into Yunnan's construction of a strong green energy province and promoting high-quality development.