July 21-22, 2026, the Shandong Heavy Industry Global Partner Conference and Green Intelligent Product Display was held at the Vietnam National Convention Center (VEC). As the core implementer of the group's power and energy sector, during the meeting, Weichai unveiled the microgrid integrated energy solution with major impact, connecting regional market essentials with hardcore technology, seizing new blue oceans for Southeast Asian power and energy, and injecting new momentum for regional green and low-carbon development.

Targeting Southeast Asian Regional Pain Points, Launching Microgrid Integrated Energy Solution

From the industry development trend, Southeast Asia is becoming the core engine of global power demand growth. Rapid regional economic development drives explosive growth in power demand. However, the dual challenges of lagging grid infrastructure and low-carbon transition have become core bottlenecks restricting its energy development.

According to the report "Southeast Asia Energy Outlook 2026" released by the International Energy Agency (IEA), since 2015, Southeast Asia's annual power demand growth rate has reached 6%, nearly twice the global average. It is expected that by 2050, total regional power demand will double or triple based on current levels.

However, the region's grid infrastructure is weak, facing the dual challenges of lagging grid infrastructure and low-carbon transition. Distributed microgrids, as the core path to solving power supply difficulties and promoting low-carbon development, have seen explosive growth in the market.

During this conference, Weichai unveiled the microgrid solution.

This is a core result of the enterprise's in-depth cultivation in the power and energy field, and even more so a forward-looking layout precisely targeting the pain points of the Southeast Asian power market.

The solution focuses on market necessities such as accelerating computing infrastructure construction, popularizing zero-carbon parks, and intelligent upgrading of remote mining and industrial areas. It integrates core equipment such as hybrid energy power stations, mobile photovoltaics, energy storage systems, charging and storage integrated units, SOFC solid oxide fuel cell power generation systems, and power generators (diesel, gas, heavy oil, etc.), effectively solving problems such as unstable power supply, high energy consumption, and missing supporting facilities in various scenarios.

Different from traditional single power generation equipment, the Weichai microgrid energy solution focuses on "one-stop, implementable, full closed-loop", covering scenarios such as islands, parks, and data centers. It can not only provide independent power supply for remote areas but also achieve low-carbon combined heat and power for urban parks.

This launch is not only a key measure for Weichai to implement the group strategy, but also marks its upgrade to high-end business forms from "selling products" to "system solutions + full-domain services + ecosystem co-construction".

The solution will also provide a low-carbon and efficient complete energy paradigm for Southeast Asia, helping the local area solve regional energy development difficulties, and promoting the transformation and upgrading of the Southeast Asian energy industry towards cleanliness, intelligence, and efficiency.

Continuous Upgrade of Power Energy Technology, Building a Group Strategic Transformation Growth Pole

In January 2026, Shandong Heavy Industry formally listed power and energy as the seventh major business sector of the group. Weichai quickly translated the group's strategic deployment into development effectiveness, becoming a new growth pole for the enterprise's high-quality development.

In 2025, Weichai's power generation product global sales broke 100,000 units, ranking among the top three globally; in the first half of 2026, Weichai's power and energy business revenue increased by 30% year-on-year, among which data center product revenue increased by 140% year-on-year. Products fully cover global core markets such as Southeast Asia, Europe, America, and the Middle East.

Behind the brilliant report card is Weichai's continuous investment in power and energy technology research and development over the years, continuous breakthroughs in core technologies, precisely fitting the explosive trend of power demand in global emerging scenarios.

On the path of technology upgrades, Weichai adheres to the dual-wheel drive of "traditional energy efficiency and new energy low-carbonization". The two major core product lines continue to iterate and optimize, jointly forming a solid hardware base for the microgrid solution.

In the traditional diesel and gas power generation fields, Weichai strategically reorganized French Baudouin in 2009, newly developed the M Series large bore diameter power generation products, created a power generator product system covering the 1250kWe-5000kWe full power range. Among them, the world's first 5 megawatt high-speed diesel generator set 20M61's starting ability, loading ability and other core indicators reached world-class levels.

At the same time, Weichai also carried out intelligent upgrades to existing diesel and gas generator sets, equipped with independently developed remote monitoring systems. It can realize real-time monitoring of unit operation status, fault warning, and remote maintenance, greatly improving equipment reliability and maintenance efficiency, adapting to power consumption needs in different scenarios in Southeast Asia.

In the new energy low-carbon power generation field, Weichai laid the groundwork early and continued to tackle difficulties, achieving a major breakthrough in SOFC solid oxide fuel cell technology.

Weichai laid out SOFC technology in 2018, released the world's first high-power metal-supported commercial SOFC product in 2022. The combined heat and power efficiency of 92.55% set a global record. The 100kW commercial SOFC power generation product demonstration project has been operating stably for nearly 70,000 hours cumulatively, technology reliability was fully verified, providing core support for the implementation of the microgrid solution.

The Weichai WES600 SOFC power generation system exhibited at this conference is one of the important devices of the microgrid solution, and also the core product of this cooperation between the two parties.

The system adopts advanced metal-supported stack technology. The system power can reach 600kW, and can achieve megawatt-level power expansion according to customer needs, providing efficient low-carbon, quiet operation, continuous stable, and rapid deployment power solutions for data centers, industrial parks, distributed energy, and microgrids.

In addition, Weichai continues to optimize the technical performance of supporting equipment such as mobile photovoltaics, energy storage systems, and charging and storage integrated units, improving the conversion efficiency of photovoltaic modules, the charge and discharge efficiency and safety of energy storage systems, achieving high-efficiency adaptation and coordinated operation of various equipment with the microgrid system, further improving the technical system of the microgrid integrated energy solution.

Continuous technology upgrades have also provided strong support for Weichai's practical application in the Southeast Asian market. For many years, Weichai has implemented multiple benchmark projects in Southeast Asia, won high recognition from local customers with hardcore technology, and also accumulated rich practical experience for the promotion of microgrid solutions.

For example, in a certain island power station in Thailand, Weichai's 12M33 diesel generator set has been operating safely for over 30,000 hours since being put into operation in 2019, becoming a "ballast stone" for local power supply; 8 Weichai Baudouin containerized gas generator sets operated stably in Southeast Asia's high temperature and high humidity environment, providing clean power for parks and communities, and received high recognition from local customers.

This appearance at the Vietnam exhibition is a concentrated display of Weichai's power energy technology and microgrid solution, and more importantly, a key step in its in-depth cultivation of the Southeast Asian market.

Currently, the Southeast Asian microgrid market enjoys dual benefits of policy and demand. Weichai will take the exhibition as an opportunity, deepen global cooperation, rely on the core microgrid solution to assist regional energy transformation, promote the group's power and energy sector to achieve higher quality growth, and contribute Weichai's strength to the global energy transformation wave.