A smart power plant adopts advanced technologies such as big data, cloud computing, IoT, and edge computing to realize the intelligence of production information and management information, and the integration of people, technology, business objectives, and management methods—a new breakthrough in enterprise management thinking. Smart power plant construction possesses nine major capabilities such as intelligence, integration, observability, interactivity, self-learning, and self-optimization. It can timely provide managers with past and present data, predict the future, and guide the work of enterprise personnel, organically integrating information technology with power industry technology and modern management technology, comprehensively improving the plant's production technology and operation management level, enhancing enterprise economic benefits, and strengthening the plant's core competitiveness.