The business scope of SNEIA: information and technology exchanges, technical advice, projects application, quality appraisal, marketing services, education and training and exhibition affairs. Functions of SNEIA:

• SNEIA has an expert team in new energy to assist the government and the industry in making industrial standards and providing technology consultation.
• SNEIA cooperates with international institutions, detection and identification agencies and industry associations in a way to provide the member units with one-stop services of detection, identification, international investigation, exchanges and cooperation, etc.
• SNEIA offers its members technological market services: a. the certification of Shanghai high and new tech results transformation projects; b. the management of West China projects, the assistance in helping medium and small-sized enterprises apply governmental funds such as the Innovation Foundation for Innovative Medium and Small-sized Enterprises and the technology management for serial projects; c. assessing intermediate and senior technical title; d. the technology training and so on.
• SNEIA works for issuing products information, keeping and selling techniques, standardizing this industry, helping its private enterprise members in reviewing, applying and approving the intermediate and senior technical titles.  SNEIA is capable of organizing large international exhibitions, technical and academic exchanges. On January 1 2007, Shanghai New Energy Net was opened, and the industrial journal Shanghai New Energy was also issued, which helps drive the development of new energy industry in different ways.