In order to achieve the goal of reliable, safe, economical and efficient power grids and sustainable green development of the economy and society, in July 2009 China formulated a smart grid development plan. According to the plan, by 2020, China will fully build a unified “strong smart grid” ".

    As one of the key terminal products for the construction of smart grids, smart meters and power consumption information collection system products play an important role in supporting the informationization, automation, and intelligence of the grid. In recent years, technological advances and high-speed development of the power industry and smart grid have driven the prosperity of our country's electricity metering market. As the most important product in China's electrical instrumentation, the output of smart meters has been at a high level, and emerged with Wasion Group, Linyang Energy, Ningbo Samsung Medical Electric, Yantai Oriental Weston Electric, Haixing Power, etc. On behalf of the leading companies, and in recent years, the State Grid tenders have shown strong competitive strength.

With the rapid growth of domestic smart grid investment, it is expected that during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, China will increase the demand for smart meters by 460 million units, and leading enterprises in the industry will continue to benefit in the future.

However, with the completion of the first round of smart meter replacement by the State Grid and China Southern Power Grid, the market growth of China ’s smart meter industry has begun to shrink, and as a result, competition between energy meter companies has begun to intensify, entering a white-hot stage. In the State Grid's second bidding for electric energy meters in 2018, 18 companies that have consistently won bids have improved their rankings by different degrees, and 25 companies have fallen by different degrees, all indicating that fierce competition among electric meter companies.

下 In the increasingly fierce market competition, how to seek new market breakthroughs is a problem that domestic energy meter companies must face and think about.

At present, countries around the world are committed to the planning and infrastructure of smart grids with the goal of stable and efficient power, energy conservation, environmental protection, and safe use. The International Energy Agency estimates that smart grids will cover 80% of the world's population by 2020.

The construction of smart grid has brought a broad market demand for global smart meters and power information collection and processing system products. It is estimated that by 2020, nearly 2 billion smart meters will be installed worldwide, the smart grid will cover 80% of the world's population, and the penetration rate of smart meters will reach 60%. This is a huge opportunity for China's electric energy meter enterprises to open up overseas markets.

China is a large country producing electric energy meters. At present, major products such as inductive electric meters, electronic electric meters and intelligent electric meters have reached or approached the technical standards of developed countries. The production and research and development capabilities have also been able to meet the different needs of the international market. It has obvious advantages and has strong international competitiveness.

With the development of e-commerce and international trade, more and more domestic energy meter companies have begun to try to “go global”. In emerging smart meter market countries such as Asia, Africa, and Latin America, they have obtained more and more market share. For example, in June of this year, Wasion Group and Haixing Power won the bids of 84 million yuan and 80 million yuan for the "Bangladesh BREB Smart Energy Meter Project", providing prepaid smart energy meters and installation services for Bangladesh.

Therefore, domestic electric energy meter companies should not only pay attention to the competition in the domestic market, but also actively participate in the competition in the international market, actively introduce foreign advanced technology and business and profit models, combine domestic advantages, and improve their own strength. The joint development of the market realizes the leap-forward development of enterprises.