Best Smart Grid Companies in China
The 60 best Smart Grid companies in China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Londian Electrics.
China's Smart Grid funding map, ranked by disclosed equity and recent momentum, covers 60 companies and $381M in total capital — with one name pulling most of the weight. Londian Electrics alone accounts for $356M of that pool, leaving the remaining 59 companies to split roughly $25M. That concentration tells you something real about where conviction has landed. The global backdrop is moving fast: the smart grid market was pegged at $43.1B in 2022 and is forecast to hit $173.0B by 2030 at a 16.95% CAGR, driven by aging infrastructure, rapid urbanization, and the relentless push toward smart cities. And AI's expanding role in grid optimization, as explored in this recent look at ML in smart grid systems, is accelerating the technology refresh cycle across the sector.
So what's moving beneath Londian? Zheda Energy sits at $14M, PowerBee at $9M, with investors like Baidu Venture Capital and China Merchants backing the field. Hot themes right now are EV powertrain integration and next-generation EV platforms, which means smart grid infrastructure isn't just a utility story anymore. Cybersecurity risks remain the structural asterisk — I'd watch how Chinese regulators respond as grid connectivity deepens. If you're tracking where early-stage capital flows next, the EV-grid convergence is the clearest signal this quarter.
- [Latest] Global Smart Grid Market Size/Share Worth USD 185.6 Billion b
- Smart Meter Market Expected to Reach $29.8 Billion by 2026
Ranked: Best Smart Grid companies in China
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Londian Electrics Provider of electric metering devices | $356M | 86 mo ago | Late Stage | Frank CEO | 1996 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Zheda Energy Provider of smart power carbon asset management solutions for businesses | $14M | 44 mo ago | Series A | Jiang Xuedong Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 3 | PowerBee IoT solutions for energy management | $9M | 95 mo ago | Series A | Timo Meyst Owner | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Beijing Rongxing Technology Blockchain and AI-based energy intelligence solutions | $2M | 96 mo ago | Seed | Richard Yu Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Envertec Provider of microinverter solutions, monitoring devices, energy storage, and accessories | — | 45 mo ago | Series A | Jundong Huo CEO | 2015 | TengineSwiperjQuery+3 | — | 3 launchs |
| 6 | VppTech Provider of AI and SaaS-based virtual power plant management platform | — | 46 mo ago | Seed | Liu Yuankun Founder & CEO | 2021 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Wanzhisheng Technology Provider of IoT-based remote energy monitoring solutions | — | 67 mo ago | Seed | Jin Yadong Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group Provider of semiconductor application-specific integrated circuits and smart metering solutions | — | 71 mo ago | Funding Raised | peter CEO & VP | 1998 | jQuery | — | — |
Top 9 Smart Grid companies in China
#1
Series A · Hangzhou, Zhejiang · founded 2017$13.9Mraised▾
Provider of smart power carbon asset management solutions for businesses. It focuses on the intelligent transformation and low carbon evolution of electric power energy.
- Oct 2022Series A$13.9M
#2
Late Stage · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 1996$356.5Mraised▾
Provider of electric metering devices. Products and solutions provided include single and three-phase smart meters, concentrators, prepaid meters, and electric meters alongside solutions to enable AMI architecture. AMI solutions include a smart home system with integrated energy management.
- Apr 2019PE$250M
- Dec 2018PE$106.5M
#3
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2013$8.8Mraised▾
PowerBee provides IoT solutions for energy management. Products include power communication chip, smart plugs, smart meters. Also, provides IoT applications such as power management system, lighting control system, temperature control system. Claims to have shipped over 100,000 smart meters to 10 cities mainly to the apartment market.
- Jul 2018Series A$8.8M
- Jul 2017Angel—
#4
Seed · Wuhan, Hubei · founded 2016$2.3Mraised▾
Mixislink energy solution is a provider of energy intelligence solutions. Solutions aim to provide energy users and suppliers with data products and solutions which are based on blockchain and AI technology. Solutions provided include green energy trading, hydrogen energy control, UAV inspection and maintenance, integrated energy management platform, and intelligent microgrid systems. Products offered help with providing big data solutions and IoT products.
- Jun 2018Seed$2.3M
#5
Series A · Yongkang, Zhejiang · founded 2015—raised▾
Provider of microinverter solutions, monitoring devices, energy storage, and accessories. The company specializes in module-level solar microinverters and communication gateways. It also offers hybrid inverters with battery capabilities. The company provides product order tracking and feedback.
- Oct 2022Series A—
#6
Seed · Changping District, Beijing · founded 2021—raised▾
Provider of AI and SaaS-based virtual power plant management platform. It offers features such as data analytics, marketing, optimization, and more.
- Aug 2022Seed—
- 2021Angel—
#7
Seed · Haidian, Beijing · founded 2017—raised▾
Provider of IoT-based remote monitoring solutions. Uses cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence solutions to provide a series of intelligent application products and innovative solutions. Offers Smart Eye Cloud Service which is an IoT concept flagship product which an intelligent remote meter reading service product, and Smart Eye Cloud Platform which is a real-time IoT business support platform. Also provides gas meter remote meter reading program, water meter remote reading solution, remote electricity meter reading solution, pointer meter remote meter reading solution, remote water level measurement solution, and remote valve opening measurement solution.
- Dec 2020Seed—
#8
Funding Raised · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 1998 · 1799 employees—raised▾
Provider of semiconductor application-specific integrated circuits and smart metering solutions. Its product offerings include smart meters, non-volatile memories, and analogue circuits. It also offers smart appliances, such as residual current protection circuits and modules, and leakage protector circuits.
- Jul 2020Unattributed—
#9
Series A · Guangdong, Jilin · founded 2017 · 52 employees—raised▾
Huidian Cloud is a cloud-based data intelligence service provider. Services offered include demand management, equipment operation & maintenance, risk management, trading strategy analysis, settlement management, energy efficiency management, sales management, energy audit, energy storage, and others.
- May 2019Series A—
- Mar 2019Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Smart Grid coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Smart Grid is moving in China
A read on the academic research around Smart Grid — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 12,322 China-affiliated papers.
- State Grid Corporation of China1128
- North China Electric Power University989
- Shanghai Electric924
- China Southern Power Grid790
- Tsinghua University437
- Microgrid48→1067
- Renewable energy17→505
- Scheduling (production processes)9→397
- Demand response19→406
- Electric power system8→347
- Microgrid122→3148
- Demand response38→1790
- Renewable energy32→1354
- Scheduling (production processes)11→1124
- Energy storage17→955
- Renewable energy8→111
- Microgrid3→88
- Electric power system7→76
- Demand response2→61
- Electricity5→55
Where smart grid is researched across China
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing smart grid patents in China
China smart grid patent filing is accelerating — 250 filings from 194 assignees (2016–2025), led by UNIV Southeast, State GRID China, Beijing Etechwin Electric; annual filings 3→63.
- UNIV Southeast19
- State GRID China17
- Beijing Etechwin Electric16
- Huawei Digital Power TECH11
- GREE Electric Appliances Zhuhai11
- UNIV Tianjin10
- China Electric Power RES INST9
- UNIV North China Electric Power6
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.