Achieving peak carbon emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 is a significant strategic decision made by the Party and the country, as well as a solemn commitment to the world in addressing climate change. In order to achieve the "dual carbon" goals, it is necessary to comprehensively and deeply reform the current social energy production, transmission, and consumption system.

The gradual increase in the proportion of new energy in the power system is an important means to ensure the smooth implementation of the "dual carbon" goals. Ensuring the safe, reliable, and economical operation of the new power system is a systematic engineering challenge, requiring breakthroughs in science and technology. In particular, it is necessary to build an ultra-large-scale new power system based on the current installed capacity of over 20 billion kilowatts in China, for which there is no precedent in the world. This requires multi-level collaborative innovation from systems, equipment, to devices, to construct a new power system operation and control theory and method system that coordinates physical systems with information systems. At the system level, the evolution path of the new power system is unclear, the stability mechanism is not understood, and operational control technology urgently needs to be reconstructed. At the equipment level, China lacks core technologies for efficient and reliable energy conversion and transmission, as well as long-life, large-capacity, low-cost energy storage equipment. At the device level, over 90% of power semiconductor devices rely on imports, and there are "bottleneck" issues with the basic materials and core components of ultra-high-voltage AC/DC transmission. These problems seriously threaten national energy security and require organized research to achieve systematic collaborative innovation.

The laboratory will focus on the national energy revolution strategy, break through the basic theory of safe operation of the new power system, solve key technologies such as power energy basic materials and power devices, power transmission and power source major equipment, and other "bottleneck" issues. It will focus on tackling three major scientific and technological issues: safe control and economic operation of the new power system, major equipment for energy conversion and transmission, and basic materials and power devices for power energy. It aims to achieve nationalization and independent controllability of control software, major equipment, and core devices of power energy systems. It will form a world-class team of power energy scientists, lead basic research in power energy, drive industry development, and provide theoretical and technical support for achieving the national carbon neutrality goals.