Lack of relevant standards and norms in digital power plants leads to different understandings of its meaning.Thus

on the basis of standard terminologies in electric power industry and the descriptions on the digital factory

the concept of digital power plant was presented

combining with the characteristics of production and management

and the main problems existing in construction of the digitized power plants were summarized

to provide references for the digital power plants building and realize the maximization of the investment income for the whole lifecycle of the power plants.