The upgrade of the electricity sales market is an inevitable trend

For most electricity users, completing electricity trading business alone lacks sufficient support in terms of technical strength, time, manpower, etc., and requires power sales companies to act as agents. Therefore, power sales companies should focus on expanding value-added services, build core competitiveness around user needs, strengthen core capacity building, and continuously extend comprehensive energy services. Through the integrated supply of multi-energy products and one-stop services, they can obtain comprehensive economic benefits and carry out cross-border operations based on technologies such as the Internet. The "Guiding Opinions" regard the development and expansion of power sales companies as an important part of cultivating new market entities, and regard the innovation of business models, the provision of integrated energy management, load integration and other value-added services as important ways for the development of power sales companies. The development and maturity of the power sales market will stimulate the transformation of the power supply and demand sides and promote the low-carbon development of the power industry.

(The author works for the Shandong Supervision Office of the National Energy Administration)