The predecessor of the company is North China Electric Power Research Institute, which was established in 1954. For a long time, it has played the role of technical supervision center, technical service center, technical development center and technical information center in North China Power Grid. The company has always adhered to the policy of "facing the power grid, facing the grass roots and serving the production and construction of the power grid", which has played an important role in the development and technological progress of the capital power grid and North China power industry and created brilliant achievements. According to the needs of on-site production, the achievements of scientific research and development projects have won 339 national, ministerial, Beijing and bureau-level scientific and technological progress awards (including 9 national, 67 ministerial, 24 Beijing and 239 network provincial and ministerial), national patents 13, and nearly 1,000 practical non-patented technologies. Completed the commissioning task of 18 1 generator set, including 47 units above 200MW and 33 500KV power transmission and transformation projects. In addition, the foreign aid project of debugging 24 generator sets in 6 countries has been completed. Since the reorganization, the company has maintained a good development momentum.
As a high-tech enterprise, the company has established the strategy of "taking knowledge as the foundation, taking scientific and technological personnel as the main body, taking technological innovation as the soul and taking the market as the guidance to further accelerate the development of high and new technology". The company takes innovation as the driving force of sustained and rapid development, and realizes the industrialization of high-tech products and the engineering of technical resources through technological innovation, system innovation and management innovation, so that scientific and technological achievements can be transformed into practical productivity and enter the market, and scientific and technological innovation has become the main profit growth point. Therefore, talent is the foundation of enterprise vitality, and cultivating and bringing up a high-quality talent team is the strategic task of company development. The company is located in the center of Beijing, the capital, with superior geographical location and elegant working environment. The company's comprehensive experimental office building covers an area of 39,000 square meters and was completed and put into use in 2005. This building is named "Electric Power Research Building".