Sermatec Awarded Shanghai Virtual Power Plant Grid Access Certificate, Establishing a Dual-Qualification Model of “Power Retail + Virtual Power Plant”
2025-11-27 00:00
Recently, Sermatec was invited to attend the Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Grid Access Certificate Award Ceremony hosted by the Shanghai Virtual Power Plant Management Center. With this certification, Sermatec has officially become a qualified market entity authorized to operate virtual power plants.
Energy Storage as the Foundation, Connecting the Future
As a company deeply engaged in energy storage systems and energy operation services, Sermatec has taken energy storage as its entry point and gradually built a full value chain covering R&D, manufacturing, sales, and operations. In the virtual power plant sector, Sermatec is actively expanding its business from regional pilot projects to nationwide deployment. The company has signed agency agreements with multiple customers in Shanghai and has participated in demand response programs and market-oriented operations in regions including Jiangsu and Shenzhen. In the face of challenges such as complex resource development and intense market competition, Sermatec focuses on deepening cooperation with existing customers to steadily enhance its resource aggregation and market responsiveness capabilities.
Resource Aggregation and Cross-Regional Synergy
In May 2025, Sermatec successfully completed its registration as a licensed power retail company with the Shanghai Power Exchange. Together with the newly obtained VPP grid access certificate, Sermatec has become one of the few energy service providers in Shanghai holding dual qualifications for “power retail + virtual power plant operation.” Going forward, the company will pursue deep integration and data-driven growth through a combined model of “power retail + virtual power plant + integrated energy operations.”
- Power retail serves as the direct gateway to end users. By offering competitive electricity retail packages, Sermatec attracts commercial and industrial customers, secures baseline electricity revenue, and gains precise insights into customer load characteristics and consumption patterns during transactions—laying a solid foundation for subsequent value-added services.
- Virtual power plant as the technical hub and profit multiplier. Through cloud platforms and intelligent algorithms, Sermatec aggregates distributed flexibility resources into a unified portfolio, enabling participation in grid demand response, ancillary services markets, and spot trading. This transforms customer-side flexibility into incremental revenue streams.
- Integrated energy operations as value extension and ecosystem moat. Building on power retail and VPP capabilities, Sermatec delivers deeper, customized energy solutions to customers, continuously enriching the VPP resource pool. This creates a positive growth flywheel: more integrated energy projects → richer flexible resources → stronger VPP profitability → more attractive power retail offerings.
As China’s power market reform continues to advance, Sermatec will leverage power retail to acquire customers, virtual power plants to generate incremental value, and integrated energy operations to deepen long-term value creation. By strengthening resource coordination and market participation, the company remains committed to contributing to the development of a new power system with renewable energy at its core.
