Up to now, SNEIA has more than 300 enterprise and institution members, including the equipment manufacturing enterprises, designing units, investment groups, electricity grid companies and so on in new energy industry.

The tenet of SNEIA: to push forward the technical and economic information exchanges inside the association, improve the relationship between its members and the government, society, and organizations home and abroad, prompt the technology advancement and extension of new energy as well as provide trade, technology and information services for Chinese and overseas new energy enterprises.

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

The development goal of SNEIA: to build itself into a new international industry association featuring independance and justice, standardized behavior, ordered operation, high representative nature and reliability and speaking rights in international contacts; besides, it should adapt to socialist market economy, accord with international practice and serves the demand of Shanghai's globalization so that it will become the banner of Shanghai new energy industry and make new contributions to the undertaking of "Develop new energy, Benefit the human being.