In response to the national three-year action plan for power supply quality, New Energy Power has unveiled its first medium-voltage DVR, reshaping the "safety cornerstone" of power supply for wafer fabrication facilities.
In April this year, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly issued a notice, fully launching the Special Action for Power Supply Quality Improvement (2026—2028), which clearly requires focusing on solving the "voltage sag" pain point of new quality productive forces industries such as chip manufacturing and computing power facilities, and encourages the user side to actively deploy governance equipment such as Dynamic Voltage Restorers (DVR).
Guided by relevant policies, the industry has seen new technological progress. At IC China 2026 (China International Semiconductor Expo) which opened on November 12, Novtium, a state-level specialized, refined, differential and innovative "little giant" enterprise, officially released its self-developed Medium-Voltage Dynamic Voltage Restorer (MDVR). This product upgrades voltage sag protection from "machine tool level" to "plant level", marking that China has further broken the foreign monopoly in the field of high-end power quality control equipment and realized the technological iteration from decentralized low-voltage governance to centralized medium-voltage protection.
Targeting the Pain Point: Grid "Flicker", an Unbearable Burden for New Quality Productive Forces
In precision manufacturing scenarios such as semiconductor manufacturing and AI computing power centers, power supply quality directly affects production safety. A voltage sag (power flicker) caused by lightning strike or line switching of the power grid that lasts for more than ten milliseconds is not enough to turn off the lights, but it is enough to instantly shut down expensive lithography machines and etchers, leading to the scrapping of the entire batch of wafers, with a single loss often reaching tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan.
According to industry statistics, voltage sags and short interruptions account for more than 90% of the impact of power quality problems on high-end manufacturing. In the face of this pain point, traditional solutions have shown obvious limitations. The MDVR released by Novtium this time abandons the idea of "patching" at the terminal, directly connects the equipment to the medium-voltage distribution bus, and a single unit can provide millisecond-level centralized protection for the entire production line or the whole plant.
Dr. Zhang Dongsheng, founder of Novtium, stated at the launch conference that MDVR has three major advantages: First, fast response and accurate compensation: it can accurately identify voltage sags, complete voltage compensation within 2~3ms, ensure that sensitive equipment is not affected by voltage sags, and improve the power supply reliability of the whole plant. Second, excellent cost-effectiveness: the equipment has low power consumption (<1%) and strong overload capacity, which can effectively cope with load impact and subsequent operation and maintenance costs; centralized deployment reduces floor space and cuts cable costs, which can significantly reduce the overall power supply governance cost of wafer fabs. Third, high reliability and maintenance-free: the equipment adopts designs such as dual bypass with redundancy and supercapacitor energy storage, which not only improves the reliability of the equipment, but also eliminates the need for subsequent battery replacement, meeting the strict stability requirements of semiconductor plant facilities.
Domestic Substitution: Deeply Embedded in the National Semiconductor Industry Chain
At present, China is vigorously promoting the independent controllability of the integrated circuit industry chain. In the hidden but critical link of power supply guarantee, Novtium is gradually becoming an important force for domestic substitution.
As the first enterprise in China to realize large-scale application of Dynamic Voltage Restorers (DVR), Novtium has served more than 200 precision manufacturing enterprises so far. From Shanghai Huahong Grace to Yandong Microelectronics, and then to CXMT, Novtium is gradually realizing the substitution of foreign brands such as ABB and Siemens in the high-end manufacturing field.
With the full rollout of the national "Three-Year Action for Power Supply Quality Improvement", active governance on the user side will become an inevitable trend in distribution network transformation and high-end manufacturing infrastructure construction. Relying on MDVR, Novtium not only builds a power supply safety defense line of "zero equipment disturbance and zero production loss" for wafer fabs, but also provides strong infrastructure support for the steady development of China's semiconductor industry.