Abstract: China economic take-off promotes the power industry’s rapid growth, but the power shortage and the environment protection pressure put forward the higher demands on it. Now power industry is exposed to the challenge of exorbitant energy consumption, heavy environmental stress, resource saving, coordinated development，and adjustment of energy structure, while electrical power technical upgrading and development provide the basis for solving these problems. At the present stage, many supercritical units, ultra supercritical units, GTCC, IGCC, large capacity air-cooled units have been adopted and home-made, renewable energy is rapidly developing. Waste combustion gases and waste heat are effectively utilized. The relevance policy is implementing. All of these will provide support for the power industry’s development in the way of scientifically, coordinately, rapidly, efficiently and ordinarily.

Key words: electric power industry situation, clean and highly effective coal-fird power generation technology, energy utilization type, green energy