Recently, at its 2026 Annual Work Conference, Shandong Heavy Industry Group officially unveiled its seventh business segment – Power Energy, a milestone event in the group’s development history. This strategic initiative aligns with global market trends, fosters new quality productive forces, and advances the group’s strategic transformation and upgrading. It represents a significant achievement of long-term strategic layout and will lay a solid foundation for Shandong Heavy Industry to build sustainable competitive advantages and achieve stable, high-quality development in the future.
What Does the Power Energy Segment Cover?
Centered on data center generator sets and Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC), Shandong Heavy Industry’s Power Energy segment extends across the entire industrial chain, including soundproof enclosures, power distribution cabinets and power station systems. It deeply serves key scenarios such as data centers, oilfields and mines, and waterway/electrical grids, committed to providing global customers with integrated power solutions that are safe, reliable, efficient, low-carbon, intelligent and flexible.
Why Launch the Power Energy Segment?
1. Broad Global Market Prospects
The rapid development of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry has driven explosive growth in AI data centers, with their energy demand soaring exponentially. Distributed energy solutions, particularly power generation technologies enabling rapid deployment, are experiencing significant growth opportunities. The IEA predicts that global data center electricity consumption will rise to approximately 945 TWh by 2030, more than doubling the 2024 figure.
2. Forward-Looking Layout with Solid Foundations
As early as 2009, Weichai Power strategically restructured France’s Baudouin, initiating its foray into the large-bore engine business while expanding Baudouin’s product line from marine power to hybrid power, gas engines and power generation. In 2018, Weichai Power made a strategic investment in Ceres Power Holdings plc, a global leader in SOFC technology, to jointly promote SOFC product R&D and application scenario implementation.
3. Industry-Leading Core Technologies
- Data Center Power Generation: Weichai has completed the product layout of 1250kWe-5000kWe generator sets and launched the world’s first 5MW high-speed diesel generator set, the 20M61. With the world’s highest power density, its starting performance, load-carrying capacity and other indicators have reached world-class levels.
- Fuel Cell Power Generation: Weichai’s SOFC power generation system has successfully obtained EU CE certification. Currently, Weichai has completed the layout of a new generation of high-power SOFC power generation products, with a maximum power generation efficiency exceeding 65% and a startup time of less than 6 hours, placing its overall technical level at the international forefront.
4. Market-Acclaimed Products
In 2025, sales of Shandong Heavy Industry’s data center power generation equipment surged by 259% year-on-year, ranking the group’s Power Energy business among the top three globally.
- Data Center Generator Sets: Weichai has established partnerships with leading domestic and foreign internet companies, operators and data center colocation providers.
- SOFC Technology: Weichai launched the world’s first high-power metal-supported SOFC commercial product, with multiple demonstration projects operating successfully. Its first 100kW SOFC power generation product has been commercially applied at Weifang Energy Group, achieving a phased breakthrough. Another 100kW SOFC product was delivered to State Power Investment Corporation, powering China’s first SOFC distributed energy project for public health services. To date, demonstration projects have accumulated nearly 70,000 operating hours.
Standing at the forefront of industrial transformation and energy transition, Shandong Heavy Industry’s Power Energy segment is advancing at full speed toward its goals of becoming a core strategic growth driver for the group and securing a position in the global industry’s first tier. Its foundation lies in more than a decade of forward-looking layout, its engine in world-leading technologies, and its confidence in market-leading achievements.
Looking ahead, the group will firmly seize the golden opportunity presented by the global data center energy demand boom, further expand its global market reach, deepen the value of niche scenarios, build differentiated core competitiveness, and write a new chapter of leapfrog development.
