Jiaxing, ChinaJune 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The annual top-tier photovoltaic industry event, SNEC 2026, has successfully concluded, showcasing a range of new technologies and achievements on the exhibition floor. Among them, a signature orange color once again lit up the venue — marking the 16th consecutive year that APsystems has attended this industry gathering since 2011. However, unlike previous years, this year’s booth presented not just new products, but a clear development strategy: define products by scenarios, enhance experiences with AI, and drive growth through a dual-cycle of domestic and international markets.
At this exhibition, APsystems unveiled a matrix of 7 new products. Among them, one is an upgraded iteration of its microinverter, while the remaining six focus on the energy storage sector, covering balcony micro-storage, residential solar-plus-storage, commercial and industrial (C&I) energy storage, and standalone energy storage. This comprehensive layout across various distributed energy application scenarios underscores the core position of energy storage in the company’s overall strategy. The product portfolio spans both domestic and international markets, including microinverters and storage solutions tailored for China, as well as the APstorage residential and C&I storage series targeting overseas markets. Notably, with industry-leading value, AI technology has been deeply integrated into APsystems’ entire solar-plus-storage product line, driving continuous optimization in operation, maintenance, and user experience. This empowers the industry while creating greater value for users, fostering a comprehensive upgrade of the smart energy ecosystem.
Scenario-Driven: From Microinverters to Storage, a Full-Line Deployment
With 16 years of deep expertise in the microinverter sector, APsystems has firmly established its leadership in the global MLPE (Module-Level Power Electronics) field. Transitioning from a microinverter manufacturer to a distributed full-scenario solar-plus-storage solution provider requires not just simple product iteration, but a clear, determined, and internally and externally aligned strategic transformation. As early as 2021, APsystems launched the APstorage brand, fully extending the technical core of its MLPE products while adhering to the core product logic of safety, efficiency, and intelligence, achieving a seamless transfer and expansion of technical capabilities.
Precise control and ultimate safety are the core advantages of microinverter technology: system DC voltage is strictly controlled within 60V/120V, fundamentally eliminating risks of high-voltage arcing and fire hazards, making it highly suitable for scenarios involving human activity, such as residential and small C&I applications. Independent MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) technology mitigates the impact of shading and module aging, significantly improving power generation efficiency. Leveraging an intelligent O&M platform, it enables real-time monitoring of module status, remote diagnostics, fault alerts, and data visualization, greatly simplifying system management.
In expanding its energy storage product matrix, different product types follow varied paths, but APsystems remains committed to its technical foundation, building four mature energy storage technology systems: For residential and micro-storage scenarios, it adopts a low-voltage AC-coupled solution, deeply compatible with microinverter systems for easy installation, safety, and reliability. A hybrid AC/DC-coupled solution achieves deep integration of solar and storage, offering excellent operational efficiency and supporting both grid-tied and off-grid modes. For C&I energy storage, a string-based architecture is chosen, providing precise control, safety, stability, flexible scalability, and simple maintenance. Off-grid storage systems deliver independent and stable power supply, fully adapting to various grid-less environments. With this diverse technical layout, the portfolio meets the full range of distributed PV application needs. Looking back, every step APsystems has taken from microinverters to storage follows a clear logic: scenario-driven, with products as the focal point. Balconies, homes, factories, industrial parks, off-grid areas — each real-world application scenario directly defines the corresponding product form.
AI as the Neural Hub: Making Full-Scenario Products Smarter Over Time
Deepening microinverters and broadening storage, APsystems adheres to a unified technical development approach. Safety is embedded in every aspect of the solar-plus-storage system design, leveraging low-voltage architecture, independent protection, and redundant safeguards to create a comprehensive safety system that ensures stable equipment operation. Efficiency serves as the main thread for technological iteration, continuously improving power generation and energy usage efficiency through module-level precise management, solar-storage linkage optimization, and scenario-specific solutions. Intelligence empowers full-scenario applications, enabling autonomous system optimization and significantly reducing O&M complexity, making distributed energy applications easier and smarter. In recent years, APsystems has intensified its focus on AI, driving technological R&D and real-world application.
If hardware is APsystems’ skeleton, AI is becoming its neural hub — injecting perception, decision-making, and evolutionary capabilities into full-scenario products. Leveraging its professional in-house software team and over a decade of accumulated massive operational data from solar-plus-storage systems, APsystems has independently developed the BESS AI model, breaking the limitations of traditional fixed operational strategies for solar-plus-storage systems. This model precisely adapts to dynamic changes in sunlight, load, electricity prices, and user consumption behavior, dynamically outputting optimal charging and discharging strategies for adaptive and precise system scheduling. At the same time, APsystems has fully integrated AI capabilities across its entire business chain. The AI-powered AP Designer station design tool helps installers efficiently complete project designs, significantly improving project implementation efficiency. The 7×24-hour online APbot intelligent customer service enables rapid response, comprehensively optimizing the user experience. Additionally, based on AI technology, the “Blue Ocean Navigator” energy internet platform has been built, covering the entire lifecycle of solar-plus-storage projects from fundraising, investment, construction, management, operation, to exit, enabling lean and digital management of power station assets. AI also empowers the integrated coordination of source, grid, load, and storage, continuously improving the flexibility and economic efficiency of the energy system through load forecasting, energy optimization, intelligent scheduling, and power trading decision support, making distributed solar-plus-storage applications smarter and more worry-free.
Dual-Cycle as the Engine: Energy Storage Becomes the Second Growth Curve
Relying on its leading safe and efficient technology, AI intelligence capabilities, and a full range of energy storage products, APsystems has built a solid foundation of software and hardware strength, laying a robust groundwork for the development of its energy storage business. Furthermore, over 16 years of deep accumulation in the solar-plus-storage industry, combined with mature systematic operational experience and global layout advantages, continuously drives the steady expansion of the company’s energy storage business, achieving long-term and stable growth.
APsystems has long practiced a dual-wheel-driven, mutually empowering development model for domestic and international markets. With 16 years of deep cultivation in overseas markets, it has established a well-structured and extensive global channel network. Since the official launch of its microinverters overseas in 2011, the company’s business has gradually radiated to major global solar-plus-storage markets. By establishing overseas subsidiaries, professional warehousing centers, and localized operational teams, it continues to expand its global business footprint. Currently, the company has 14 subsidiaries and 8 warehousing centers worldwide. In mature European markets, APsystems leverages its long-established brand reputation and market presence to continuously tap into growth potential. Recently, it has established a subsidiary in the UK and a dedicated C&I energy storage warehouse in the Netherlands, enabling localized rapid delivery and efficient service response, steadily increasing its regional market share.
At the same time, the company is actively exploring emerging markets with potential, such as Southeast Asia, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Using its Singapore subsidiary as a regional hub, it comprehensively radiates to markets including Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines. In Africa, local warehousing has been completed, and plans are in place to set up operational entities in Zimbabwe and Kenya, deeply tapping into opportunities along the Belt and Road Initiative.
The domestic market serves as the core foundation for APsystems to achieve technological iteration and upgrade, as well as to implement large-scale energy storage projects. Its controlled subsidiary, Lingchu Yune, focuses on the domestic C&I energy storage track, adhering to a high-safety string-based energy storage technology route. Leveraging a fully self-developed 3S (EMS, BMS, PCS) technology system, it has implemented multiple benchmark projects at the hundred-megawatt-hour level, accumulating rich practical experience in large-scale energy storage project engineering delivery, system commissioning, and full-process O&M. Products and technologies refined and optimized through complex and demanding domestic conditions continuously empower overseas markets. Its APstorage C&I energy storage products have successfully entered mainstream overseas markets such as Germany, Slovakia, and Japan, receiving high international recognition and becoming a new growth driver for the company’s overseas business.
For domestic residential, balcony storage, and small-to-medium C&I application scenarios, APsystems launched the “Yudianbao” brand last year. Leveraging mature overseas technology and combining it with differentiated domestic market demands, it has achieved comprehensive localization adaptation in products, services, and channels. This fully positions the company in the domestic distributed solar-plus-storage track, filling gaps in niche markets and completing its domestic business landscape.
Currently, APsystems’ domestic and international markets have formed a mutually beneficial and empowering development pattern. The overseas market continuously provides mature channel resources, market-proven product experience, and scalable operational systems, while the domestic market consistently delivers large-scale project implementation capabilities and hardcore technological R&D strength. The synergistic progress of solar and storage businesses, along with the sharing and reuse of product technology and channel resources, equips APsystems’ energy storage business with both strong product hard power and mature global operational soft power, solidifying it as a high-certainty, stable-growth second growth curve for the company’s development.
Looking at the waves of industry transformation, clear strategic focus and forward-looking planning are the core confidence for companies to navigate cycles and win the future. APsystems is anchored in the smart distributed energy track, solidifying its foundation through long-term deep cultivation and accumulating momentum through technological innovation. It is believed that with this accumulation and foresight, the company will unleash greater value in the era of energy transition.