Ganfeng Lithium Industry Group Shenzhen Yichu Digital Intelligence Source's Guofeng Digital Intelligence Software Grand Unveiling, Digital Intelligence as the Core, Leading the World

On March 22, 2026, the global new energy storage digital transformation reached a new milestone, as Shenzhen Yichu Smart Energy Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Yichu Smart”) officially launched its core software development entity—Guofeng Smart Energy Software Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Guofeng Smart Software”) in Shanghai. Li Liangbin, chairman of Ganfeng Lithium Industry Group, attended the event and delivered an important speech, witnessing this brilliant moment alongside numerous leaders from the energy industry and strategic partners. On the same day, Yichu Smart held a high-level closed-door strategic meeting with the theme “Digital Intelligence Driven, Leading Globally,” and comprehensively released the strategic deployment for 2026, focusing on AI digital operations, intelligent inspection robots, and the digitalization of electricity trading as core technological leverage, positioning itself as a core builder of global energy and electricity digitalization, leading the high-quality development of the global energy storage industry with absolute hard power.

Strategic Moves Reshape the Digital Energy Storage Industry Landscape

Currently, the global energy revolution is advancing deeply, and the new energy storage industry has completely shifted from competition in hardware manufacturing to high-end competition in digital operations, digital electricity spot trading, core technology definition rights, and global standard discourse. The establishment of Guofeng Smart Software is not only a key move for Ganfeng Lithium to perfect its global lithium ecosystem’s full industrial chain layout but also a core milestone for Yichu Smart to transition from “leading in hardware scale” to “leading in digital technology.”

Image | Launch and Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

As Yichu Smart’s wholly-owned software development core platform, Guofeng Smart Software is based on “digital technology as the blade, energy industry as the foundation,” deeply engaging in five core tracks: energy AI algorithms, full-process digitalization of the electricity market, intelligent management systems for energy storage EMS, grid-based PCS core technology, and intelligent inspection robots for new energy power plants. It specializes in tackling the bottlenecks of critical technologies in the field of energy storage digitalization, creating a new energy ecosystem characterized by “coordinated computing power, digital intelligence empowerment, and a closed-loop for the entire chain,” thoroughly breaking down digital barriers across the entire chain of lithium resource development, battery manufacturing, energy storage operations, electricity trading, and recycling, promoting deep two-way empowerment of advanced manufacturing and intelligent operations, and helping Ganfeng Lithium achieve a dual strategic leap of “with one hand holding global lithium resource giants and the other hand leading comprehensive solutions for global energy storage.”

Image | Chairman Li Liangbin Attends the Speech and Points Out for the Lion Dance

In his speech, Chairman Li Liangbin expressed three strategic expectations for Guofeng Smart Software: to have grand ambitions, deeply engage in energy software development with a global perspective, break the overseas monopoly on energy storage digital technology, and define new rules for global energy storage digitalization with original Chinese technology; to integrate the big picture, deeply link with Ganfeng’s entire industrial chain ecosystem, penetrate resource development, battery manufacturing, power plant operations, and electricity trading with digital technology across all scenarios, building a unique dual moat of cost and technology in the industry; and to gather strength, uphold the corporate spirit of “pragmatism, innovation, responsibility, and win-win,” bringing together top talents in electricity, algorithms, AI, and operations and maintenance, solidifying the dual bottom line of safety compliance and technological innovation, and climbing to new heights in the global digital energy storage track.

He solemnly promised that Ganfeng Lithium would fully empower the development of Guofeng Smart Software, providing comprehensive support for technology research and development, market expansion, and talent cultivation, working with global partners to build a new green digital energy future.

Image | Chairman Li Liangbin and Others Inspect the Guofeng Smart Software Office

Hardcore Review Strengthens the Industry’s Leading Platform

Image | Closed-Door Strategic Meeting

During the closed-door strategic meeting, Yichu Smart reviewed its operational performance in 2025, with eight groundbreaking achievements demonstrating its hardcore strength as one of the top three in the industry: the independent energy storage contracting scale exceeded 24.42GWh, with a grid-connected capacity of 6.67GWh and an ongoing construction scale of 11.9GWh, ranking it in the top tier of the independent shared energy storage industry on the grid side; the EMS intelligent operation and maintenance system was scaled up, with a plant availability rate stabilizing at ≥98.5%, and operation and maintenance costs reduced by 15% compared to the industry average; the “BMS+PCS+EMS” core technology iron triangle matured, with a first frequency regulation compliance rate of 98%, leading the world in system stability; a 15GWh PACK manufacturing base was fully constructed, and a professional power engineering EPC company was established, achieving complete self-control of the entire energy storage chain; a cloud-edge-end integrated digital control platform was launched, improving plant operational efficiency by 6% and reducing energy loss by 20%, with overall operational benefits and talent team strength both ranking in the industry’s top three, laying a solid foundation for the strategic leap in 2026.

The meeting also accurately assessed the industry’s development shortcomings, formulating targeted solutions to overcome four bottlenecks: optimizing revenue structure, scaling core digital technologies, advancing long-duration energy storage research and development, and cross-regional multi-project collaborative management, clearing obstacles for achieving annual strategic goals.

Technical Breakthroughs Anchor the Core Strategic Blueprint for 2026

Based on five definitive industry dividends—policy, market, mechanism, ecology, and strategy—Yichu Smart announced four core objectives for 2026 and deployed five critical campaigns, aiming to sprint towards becoming a global leader in energy storage digitalization with high standards, high patterns, and high execution power.

The core strategic objectives precisely focus on four dimensions: scale, profitability, technology, and ecology:

First, in terms of scale, add 30GWh of new projects throughout the year, connect 15GWh to the grid, capitalize 12GWh off-balance sheet, and achieve an operational total scale exceeding 20GWh, firmly holding the industry’s top three position, with over 70% of long-duration energy storage projects exceeding 4 hours, creating two global benchmark projects;

Second, regarding revenue structure: establish an optimal revenue structure of “capacity price 55% + auxiliary services 25% + spot trading 20%,” with existing projects’ IRR ≥8% and new projects’ IRR ≥10%;

Third, in terms of technology, achieve an energy storage system availability rate of ≥99.2%, cover all scenarios with the digital platform, reduce operational labor costs by 25%, and complete iterations of grid-based PCS technology and the large-scale deployment of intelligent inspection robots;

Fourth, in terms of ecology, sign strategic cooperation agreements with ≥20 partners, including State Grid, Southern Grid, and five major and six small power generation groups, initiate preparations for energy storage REITs and asset securitization, and establish a national benchmark for energy storage capitalization.

Focusing on the core objectives, Yichu Smart is committed to winning the five core campaigns, strengthening technical breakthroughs in AI digital operations and intelligent inspection robots: in the digital empowerment campaign, create a core technological matrix of AI + energy storage and AIDC + energy storage, relying on AI algorithms to build a digital platform for electricity spot trading, achieving precise price forecasting, intelligent load dispatching, and accurate arbitrage of revenues, overcoming the bottleneck of core algorithms for electricity market trading; fully deploy intelligent inspection robots for new energy power plants, integrating machine vision, IoT, and big data technologies to realize unmanned inspection across all scenarios, intelligent early warning for thermal runaway, and automatic fault diagnosis, replacing manual high-risk inspection tasks, improving the precision of plant safety management to industry-leading levels, and thoroughly achieving a digital operation and maintenance closed loop. Meanwhile, deepen collaboration across Ganfeng’s entire industrial chain, jointly build six technical laboratories, and advance research and development in long-duration energy storage, battery recycling, and circular economy technologies, maintaining technological iterations ahead of the industry by 1-2 generations.

Leading the World, Defining New Standards for Digital Energy Storage

The unveiling of Guofeng Smart Software and the significant release of the 2026 strategy mark Yichu Smart’s formal establishment as a core builder of global energy and electricity digitalization, with digital technology as the core engine and a complete industrial chain ecosystem as a solid foundation, completely reshaping the development logic of the global energy storage industry.

In the future, Yichu Smart will take Guofeng Smart Software as the core technical carrier, adhering to the development philosophy of “smart energy, digital intelligence-driven, global leadership,” continuously deepening its efforts in the new energy storage field, tackling key core technologies, expanding global market layouts, fulfilling solemn commitments to the group and shareholders with ultimate operations, hardcore innovations, and efficient collaborations, and fully supporting Ganfeng Lithium’s ascent to the ranks of global energy giants, collaborating with global industrial sectors to contribute hardcore Yichu power to the transformation of the global energy structure and the achievement of dual carbon goals!

Yichu Smart Energy helps facilitate the global transition to new energy electricity, building a global digital energy ecosystem.

Source: Shenzhen Yichu Smart Energy Group Co., Ltd.