Recently

although various power plants all over the country have completed the reform in digitalizing and promotion of information technology in different levels

neither of them is real intelligence-oriented. This paper starts from the necessity of smart power generation upon thermal power plants and makes a clarification of the fact that construction of smart generation power plants is an evitable trend combining with the current situation of power plants. Then

it summarizes the required features of smart generation technology and puts forward one kind of practical frame of smart generation technology by illustrating its functional application in power plants. Through the application of smart generation technologies

the whole production process forms a closed loop

which ensures the units be operated in highly efficiency

flexibly and environmentally in force.