I. Background

With the sustained economic and social development of China, major shifts are taking place in the modes of energy production and consumption. The energy industry is shouldering new missions including improving energy efficiency, safeguarding energy security, boosting the integration of new energy sources and advancing environmental protection. The development of an integrated energy system helps break technical, institutional and market barriers between various energy subsystems, facilitates the complementation and coordinated optimization of multiple energy sources and systems, improves energy efficiency and new energy integration on the premise of ensuring energy security, and vigorously advances the energy production and consumption revolution. Meanwhile, driven by the rapid development and extensive application of energy internet technologies, distributed power generation and supply technologies, energy system monitoring, control and management technologies, as well as innovative energy trading models, integrated energy services have grown rapidly worldwide in recent years, triggering profound transformations in energy systems and emerging as a new focal point for strategic competition and cooperation among nations and enterprises.

II. Certification Objects

Enterprises providing social services via integrated energy services.

III. Coverage Scope of Integrated Energy Service Certification

Integrated energy efficiency improvement service, electric power operation and maintenance service, distributed energy system service, energy supply service, energy storage service, multi-energy complementary service, microgrid service, Internet + smart energy service, energy supply service, etc.

IV. Functions of Integrated Energy Service Certification

1. Objectively demonstrate enterprises’ service capabilities in the field of integrated energy services in accordance with national standards for reference by governments and clients.

2. Serve as an important reference and qualification requirement for bidding, government procurement and other activities of large enterprises and public institutions.

3. Certified enterprises meet national standards in service capacity and can strengthen service management level and service capability.

V. Five Grades of Integrated Energy Service Certification: A  AA  AAA  AAAA  AAAAA