The autonomy of the system components and the improvement of the intelligent level based on the selflearning mechanism put forward higher requirements for flexibility of the intelligent power generation(IPG) technology's architecture. The cyber-physical system(CPS) is a new idea and architecture for control of physical process with emphasis on the adaptability and flexibility of components related closely to physical process. In this paper

the concept and features of the CPS were presented

the characteristics in flexible IPG base on the CPS were expounded

the architecture of the flexible IPG base on the CPS was presented

and the mapping between components in current IPG architecture and that base on the CPS was presented. This new architecture based on the CPS oriented IPG to a new architecture with highly intelligent and autonomous components and featured with SDE/SDS

and provided a new approach to flexible intelligent power generation.