On December 30, 2025, the Ministry of Education awarded the First Prize of the 2025 Outstanding Achievement Award in Scientific Research (Natural Science and Engineering Technology) for the project "Key Technologies, Equipment, and Applications for IoT-Integrated Sensing, Storage, Computing, and Control in Urban Virtual Power Plants" — led by Professor Tai Nengling from Shanghai Jiao Tong University's School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, with Shanghai KeLiang Information Technology Co., Ltd. as a major participant.

The project addressed critical challenges in urban virtual power plants (VPPs)—inadequate perception of flexible resources, insufficient aggregation capabilities, and imprecise regulation—by developing IoT-integrated sensing-storage-computation-control equipment. This enabled rapid, precise, and efficient regulation of large-scale urban VPPs. Over a decade of research, the team conquered three major challenges: integration of sensing-storage-computation for flexible resources, enhanced energy routing, and intelligent regulation. Key outputs include sensing-storage-computation integrated terminals, edge-enhanced energy routers, and an intelligent regulation cloud platform, which broke through technical bottlenecks in power IoT, enhanced city-level VPP regulation, and enabled rapid, accurate peak/frequency regulation using massive flexible resources. Achievements include record-breaking peak-load shaving in East China, nationwide adoption in over 20 provinces, and global exports. The outcomes also accelerated load-side new productive forces and supported green, low-carbon energy transitions.

For years, KeLiang has leveraged its expertise in simulation & testing to closely align with China's national "New-type Power System" strategy, providing robust testing and validation for critical equipment and control strategies. By establishing an "R&D-Validation-Application" closed loop, the company drives equipment performance optimization and system reliability enhancement, effectively supporting the implementation of "Digital Transformation" and "Green and Low-Carbon" goals in the energy sector. Moving forward, KeLiang will intensify R&D investments, deepen collaboration mechanisms with universities and research institutes, jointly advance technological innovation and commercialization, and foster a tighter, more efficient industry-academia-research ecosystem to provide robust support for national energy strategies and industrial upgrading.