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The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance (WAIC 2025) opened in Shanghai on July 26. Among 223 entries, the State Grid Corporation of China's project titled "AI + Guangming Foundation Model: Building a Smart Energy Management Master for Megacities" stood out and won the conference's top honor—the SAIL Award (Super AI Leader Award). It is the only winning project from the energy sector.
Leveraging the Guangming Foundation Model's multi-modal perception and dynamic decision-making capabilities, State Grid Shanghai Electric Power Company has developed a one-stop smart energy management "engine." The system enables coordinated and interactive management across generation-grid-load-storage, establishing a responsive and integrated energy ecosystem. It empowers virtual power plants to participate in grid regulation tasks such as peak shaving and valley filling, load balancing, frequency regulation, reserve support, power flow congestion management, and fault response.
The system also enables accurate multi-dimensional grid state forecasting, high-frequency energy trading strategy updates, second-level precision control of user-end devices, refined effectiveness assessment, and precise subsidy allocation. This empowers enterprises, government departments, industrial facilities, commercial institutions, and the general public to engage in coordinated energy response, diversified user experiences, and interactive services.
"AI + Guangming Foundation Model" — Building a Smart Energy Management Master for Megacities
Photo via State Grid Shanghai Electric Power Company
In recent years, the State Grid Corporation of China has placed great emphasis on the development of artificial intelligence. It successfully built and launched the Guangming Power Foundation Model, an industry-leading, trillion-parameter multi-modal AI model. It has passed dual evaluations by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and the China Electronics Standardization Institute, achieving the highest "Excellent" grade. As a "super brain," it is now deployed across State Grid’s headquarters and 27 provincial-level subsidiaries.
Focusing on practical applications, the company has formulated a strategic "6541" framework centered on the Guangming Power Foundation Model. This layout covers 6 core business areas—planning and construction, grid operation, asset management, work control, customer service, and business management—encompassing over 600 application scenarios. It is driving large-scale implementation of AI across the enterprise.
Looking ahead, State Grid Corporation of China will continue to advance the national "AI+" initiative by promoting deeper integration of AI into the new-type power system, fostering synergy between technological and industrial innovation, and contributing to the construction of a modern power system and the high-quality development of the AI industry. (By Hu Dian)
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