DoGo Power launches smart grid-forming ESS  

  • September 30, 2026
  • Esther Shein

China’s DoGo Power has released its global “Scenario‑oriented + Grid‑Forming + AI” strategy, alongside smart grid forming energy storage offerings for large‑and‑medium‑sized commercial & industrial (C&I), and utility-scale scenarios.

The strategy and launch were announced during the recent “Forming the Energy Future” event by Robin Zhu, founder and CEO of DoGo Power, which covers over 30 countries and regions.

Zhu said that the company has established three R&D centers and two simulation and testing centers across China. Additionally, Zhu said, the company has assembled 19 PhD-led cross‑disciplinary expert groups, with over 60% of staff engaged in R&D. Its three global manufacturing centers deliver a first‑phase production capacity of 10 GWh.

“The energy storage industry has entered a high‑quality development watershed after rapid scale expansion. Scenario adaptation, grid‑forming and AI have become core competitiveness,’’ Zhu said. “Energy storage needs to shift from a ‘cost unit’ to a ‘value‑creating unit’. DoGo Power focuses on grid‑scale grid‑forming energy storage, aiming to be a core technology leader for the new‑type power system. We seek to cooperate with global partners to foster new industrial growth through technological innovation.”

DoGo Power has identified a four-stage evolution path for new‑type power system: 1-R&D Flouring Industry and Technologies, 2‑Grid‑forming for Stabilization, 3‑AI for Higher Revenue, and 4‑Holistic Intelligent Integration. The industry is currently at Stage 2. Based on this, DoGo develops a solution for Stage 3 and deploys global business toward Stage 4 under two core pillars:

Integrating EMS, PMS, PCS and BMS, the 4S platform builds intelligent energy storage stations capable of analysis, optimization, decision‑making and iterative upgrade. Backed by this technical foundation, DoGo has grid‑scale offerings suited for diverse scenarios, multi‑energy and multi‑timescale requirements worldwide.

Two flagship smart grid‑forming ESS system were launched for C&I and utility-scale scenarios: the C&I Smart GFM ESS Solution, and the Utility-scale Smart GFM ESS Solution.

To balance system stability and economic benefits, DoGo Power has built a three‑layer architecture:

  • Bottom stable grid‑forming control layer: addresses millisecond‑level stability demands including inertial response.
  • Middle efficient coordination control layer: executes hundred‑millisecond‑level functions such as secondary frequency‑voltage regulation and fast black‑start.
  • Top intelligent optimization dispatching layer: delivers global prediction and optimization to maximize economic returns under stable operation.

The architecture is designed to enable storage systems to deliver stability support and flexible regulation across generation, grid and load sides. On the generation side, it was built to enabled a 4:1 solar‑to‑storage ratio and doubles PV installation without point of common coupling (PCC) upgrades. On the grid side, it operates stably under weak grids (SCR>1), mitigates terminal fluctuations and improves power supply reliability by 0.03%. On the load side, it realizes sub-20 ms grid-connected/off-grid switching and strengthens source‑load two‑way interaction.