Research on the Development Pattern and Technology of Competitive

Business Ecosystem of Power Grid Enterprises in New Energy

Weixuan Meng

, Penghui Zhang

and Shuxiao Liu

Dept. of Corporate Management Consulting State Grid Energy Research Institute, China

State Grid Corporation of China, China

Keywords: Development Pattern Power Grid Enterprises Competitive Business Ecosystem New Energy.

Abstract: In recent years, the epidemic continues to spread internationally. The tasks of "six guarantees" and "six

stabilities" are arduous. Power Grid enterprises urgently need to accelerate the transformation and upgrading

of competitive businesses in new energy, improve quality and efficiency, stimulate vitality, support the

company to cultivate new growth points and give full play to the driving force of the new energy and power

industry chain. Considering the existing research lacks analysis on the development pattern and technology

of competitive business ecosystem under the new energy development situation, this paper innovatively

applies the logic method and technology of deriving the competitive business pattern, defines the development

orientation of the competitive business of power grid enterprises, and puts forward the development pattern

and technology of the competitive business of power grid enterprises, which will significantly guide the

business transformation and upgrading of power grid enterprises and cultivating ecological advantages in new

energy.

1 INTRODUCTION

Under the background of energy and power

digitization and marketization, based on the energy

grid and information system, the competitive

business of power grid enterprises is a key business

carrier to rely on and support the leading industries of

power grid enterprises and promote the creation of

energy Internet value. It is a key force to support the

high-quality development of power grid enterprises

(

Meng, Cheng, Liu, 2021

). Overall, the

implementation of the strategy of power grid

enterprises puts forward higher requirements for

Comprehensively Strengthening the strategic support

of competitive business. The development of

competitive business should not only provide high-

quality resources such as technology, equipment,

assets, data and talents for the high-quality

development of power grid enterprises and power

grid, but also support power grid enterprises in

promoting the reform of the energy industry and

responding to external demands Play the role of

"great power and heavy weapon" in implementing the

national strategy (

Wood, 1998

2 DEVELOPMENT

ORIENTATION OF

COMPETITIVE BUSINESS OF

POWER GRID ENTERPRISES

2.1 Development Concept of

Competitive Business of Power

Grid Enterprises

In the future, the requirements to competitive

business of power grid enterprises as the carrier of

energy Internet value realization will be more

prominent and clear (

Scott, 1995

). Competitive

business should not only efficiently support the

construction and operation of energy Internet, but

also undertake the important task of supporting power

grid enterprises to fulfil their three major

responsibilities and drive collaborative innovation of

upstream and downstream enterprises. It is urgent to

change the relatively closed business philosophy in

the past, grasp the three key words of "support,

opening and contribution", and promote power grid

enterprises to play a greater role in energy reform and

national strategy with a higher level of basic support,

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Research on the Development Pattern and Technology of Competitive Business Ecosystem of Power Grid Enterprises in New Energy.

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open cooperation, benefit contribution and industry

drive.

Consolidate the support capacity and

strengthen the guarantee of main business. The

competitive business of power grid enterprises has

obvious advantages in electrical equipment, power

information communication and so on (

Ansoff,

1965

). In the new era, the competitive business of

power grid enterprises should give full play to the

technological innovation advantages and professional

service advantages of directly affiliated industrial

units, focus on the actual needs of power grid

enterprises to lead the construction and operation of

energy Internet, focus on breaking through the "neck"

technology and core components, and strive to

improve the autonomy and localization level of high-

end electrical equipment and information and

communication systems, take high-quality

development as the main line, be driven by improving

quality, reducing cost and increasing efficiency,

business optimization and reorganization, and

improve industrial operation efficiency, innovation

power and development joint force, and continuously

strengthen the all-round support capacity of

technology, equipment, capital, platform and talents.

Strengthen opening-up and cooperation and

highlight industry driven. The ecological

development of energy Internet is advancing rapidly,

and there is a huge space for power grid enterprises

to tap the internal element value, business value and

platform value of competitive business (

Grant, 1991

In the new era, the competitive business of power grid

enterprises is an important window to highlight the

status of power grid enterprises as a "big country and

heavy weapon". We should adhere to the ecological

development concept of deep opening and

collaborative innovation, focus on meeting the needs

of users (customers) and scenarios, improve the level

of strategic cooperation and capital operation in the

capital and market, and unblock the channels for

high-quality resource allocation inside and outside,

enhance the penetration and expansion of emerging

markets; In terms of data and technology, it is

necessary to strengthen the joint innovation

incubation of technology and products, and fully

release the value-added potential of digital

transformation of energy and power.

Adhere to innovation driven and enhance

value creation. The rapid development of energy

Internet provides new opportunities and requirements

for responding to the change of supply and demand

system of the whole energy and power industry chain,

the optimization of industrial pattern, and the

innovation of business format and mode. In the

context of digital transformation and clean energy

development, the competitive business of power grid

enterprises should be based on responding to the new

scenarios and new needs of energy supply and

consumption, strive to give full play to the

multiplication effect of digitization, develop public

service technologies, create online platform products,

innovate business models, expand the public value

creation ability of energy Internet and promote the

sustainable development of competitive business,

provide market, policy and technical support.

2.2 Basic Positioning of Competitive

Business of Power Grid Enterprises

The competitive business of power grid enterprises is

the "new kinetic energy" and "stabilizer" for the

development of power grid enterprises (

Hage, Alien,

1970

). It is the "incubator" for power grid enterprises

to cultivate market-oriented business for energy and

power industry under the background of energy

marketization and technology digitization in the new

era. Specifically, the competitive business of power

grid enterprises should focus on three basic

positioning: supporter, benefit contributor and

industrial driver, so as to serve power grid enterprises

to speed up the construction of energy Internet and

better fulfill their three responsibilities.

Critical Supporter. The construction of energy

Internet of power grid enterprises is a pioneering

system project. The establishment of smart grid’s grid

system and information communication system

requires power grid enterprises to independently

develop smart grid technical equipment and high-end

equipment of components and components such as

UHV bushing, tap changer and smart substation, and

power grid enterprises to increase key technology

research and integrated application in the fields of

automation system, digital platform and

communication, industrial control chip and artificial

intelligence. It is necessary to establish a complete

industrial chain of high-end electrical equipment and

a power information and communication industry

with high level of autonomy and strong product

development ability, so as to provide key guarantees

such as technology, equipment, platform and talents

for the development of power grid enterprises.

Benefit Contributors. Affected by the slowdown

of power demand and policy price reduction and

profit transfer, power grid enterprises will continue to

increase the operating pressure in the future, and

power grid enterprises will put forward higher

requirements for the profitability of competitive

businesses. At the same time, the traditional electrical

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equipment and information communication business

mainly support the main business, and the external

market expansion capacity is limited. Combined with

the latest research and analysis, emerging businesses

such as energy e-commerce, comprehensive energy

services and electric vehicle business have large

market space and great profit potential, which can be

cultivated as a new profit growth point for power grid

enterprises.

Industry Driver. Under the background of the in-

depth integration of digitization and power grid

business, the industrial driving role of new

infrastructure construction and the utilization level of

market factors have gradually increased. The

development and utilization of data, network,

terminal and platform resources by power grid

enterprises is conducive to promoting the operation

efficiency and value creation level of the whole

energy and power industry chain. Therefore, with the

digital level of the industry and the development of

the national digital industry, digital services, the

development of power grid basic resources, and the

design, development and operation and maintenance

services of information systems will play an

important role in driving the industry.

3 COMPOSITION OF

COMPETITIVE BUSINESS

PATTERN AND TECHNOLOGY

OF POWER GRID COMPANIES

At present, on the basis of consolidating the

traditional energy transmission and power service

business, power grid enterprises have preliminarily

arranged competitive businesses covering the whole

energy and power industry chain (such as

comprehensive energy services, new energy cloud,

energy e-commerce, energy industry internet, online

industry chain finance and other key businesses). In

the future, the Energy Internet business ecosystem of

power grid enterprises will show the characteristics

of clear core, cross-border extension and fuzzy

boundary. Based on the energy grid and information

system, and consolidating traditional energy

transmission and power service business, it will

develop in two directions of extending vertically

along the upstream and downstream of the industrial

chain, and mining the two directions of horizontal

expansion based on the reuse value of basic resources,

a business system connecting the whole energy and

power industry chain will be evolved.

With the steady progress of comprehensively

deepening reform, accelerating the digital

transformation of the energy industry and gradually

improving the Energy Internet system of power grid

enterprises, power grid enterprises gradually have the

Figure 1: Derivation logic technology of competitive business pattern of power grid enterprises.

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basic conditions and development opportunities for

the overall promotion and coordinated development

of the strategic layout of competitive businesses.

Firstly, from the perspective of the industrial

foundation and advantages of power grid enterprises,

power grid enterprises have accelerated the

construction of energy Internet efforts have been

made to consolidate the foundation of the energy and

power industry chain, and the group's operation

advantages, service network advantages, whole

industry chain advantages, power technology

advantages, power grid operation advantages,

enterprise brand advantages, talent team advantages

and other significant advantages have provided a

persistent basis for the development of competitive

business.

Secondly, from the perspective of external

demand, energy consumption demand is increasingly

diversified, technologies such as multi energy

combined supply are gradually mature, and demands

such as personalized energy consumption demand,

energy digital transformation demand, intelligent

social governance demand and quality and efficiency

improvement demand of small, medium and micro

enterprises are becoming increasingly prominent,

providing a huge market space for power grid

companies to develop energy and power value-added

services.

Thirdly, from the perspective of policy basis, the

government has issued a series of policies to

vigorously develop strategic emerging industries,

accelerate the market-oriented reform of power grid

industry, accelerate the breakthrough of "neck"

technology, improve the modernization level of the

industrial chain, develop high-end manufacturing

industry and promote rapid economic recovery,

which will deeply tap the value-added potential of

reuse related power grid resources for power grid

companies give better play to the leading role of

industry and provide a relatively loose policy

environment.

Based on the above analysis, the competitive

business of power grid enterprises will start from

supporting the leading industry of power grid

enterprises, be oriented to meet the needs of "users

(customers)" and "scenarios", deeply cross integrate

business scenarios, resource assets and market users,

and expand from point to point and outward through

customer development, resource integration,

platform Association, collaborative innovation, etc,

Gradually form four business clusters: smart energy

service business, smart industrial chain service

business, resource sharing service business and basic

forward-looking business.

Figure 2: Four clusters of competitive business of Power Grid company in new energy.

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4 CONCLUSION AND

ENLIGHTENMENT

In the future, power grid enterprises should focus on

building smart energy services, smart industrial chain

services, resource sharing services and basic and

forward-looking business clusters of Energy Internet

in in new energy.

Firstly, it is necessary to determine the positioning

of "new kinetic energy" and "stabilizer" for the

development of competitive business, and strengthen

the "incubator" function of power grid enterprises to

cultivate market-oriented business for energy and

power industry.

Secondly, combined with the external strategic

environment requirements of power grid enterprises

and the company's industrial transformation and

upgrading deployment, the development of power

grid enterprises’ industries should adhere to the

overall development idea of "2+2+n": two

development points - optimizing business layout and

strengthening business integration; Two means of

development: form a classification path and promote

collaborative development; "N" is the development

strategy of N industrial units.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Authors wishing to acknowledge support from the

State Grid Energy Research Institute Co., Ltd’s

Science and Technology Project "Research on

Evolution and Development Model and key

Technologies of Corporate Energy Internet

Ecosystem supporting Corporate Strategy".

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