Institute of Energy of Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center (Anhui Energy Laboratory) [hereinafter referred to as "Institute of Energy") is a provincial institution legal person of Anhui Province and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is jointly built by relying on Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Anhui University Of Science & Technology, University of  Science and Technology of China, Hefei University of Technology and other units.

It has built a large-scale comprehensive breakthrough, leading and platform-integrated research base with "first-class research facilities, first-class core technology, first-class research team and first-class scientific research achievements" by aligning the national strategy, aiming at the frontier of the world, combining with the national medium - and long-term energy development plan, gathering innovative energy resources at home and abroad, and actively exploring new mechanisms and systems and following the management mode of "service establishment, theater command, and war-led construction",and occupied the strategic high point of the development of energy technology in the future, thus providing strong theoretical and technical support for solving the problem of energy development in China.

Institute of Energy focuses on the research directions of clean and efficient utilization of coal, magnetic confinement fusion, renewable energy and smart power grid, comprehensively strengthens basic research, applied basic research and technological innovation, drive the optimization layout of scientific research forces in the energy field and the leap of independent innovation ability, aiming to form a strategic scientific and technological innovation force with discourse power and influence in the field of energy technology development, and build an "aircraft-level" research platform facing the frontiers of world science and technology.