Its predecessor can be traced back to the Department of Electrical Engineering of Sun Yat-sen University before the founding of the People's Republic of China. 1952, when South China University of Technology was founded, the Department of Electrical Engineering was established. At that time, the specialty of power grid and distribution system in power plant and the specialty of motor in power station and substation were set up. 1953, the national colleges and universities were reorganized into Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

1958 electrical engineering specialty was reopened, and it was closed after training a class of students. 1970 Guangdong universities "transferred, merged, moved and reformed". The former Guangdong Institute of Technology's electric power system major was transferred to South China University of Technology, and merged with the electrical discipline of South China University of Technology to form the electric power department. 1972- 1975 established the department of electric power and shipping, with three majors in electric power: motor, power station, power system and electrification of industrial enterprises. 1975 the department of electric power and ship is divided into ship department and electric power department, and the electric power department still has the original three majors. At that time, the shipbuilding department planned to build a thermal power specialty and began to enroll students in 1985.

1June, 1994, the original electric power department merged with the ship department to form the Energy Transportation College. 1994 10 10 In October, South China University of Technology negotiated with Guangdong Electric Power Industry Bureau, and with the approval of the State Education Commission and the Guangdong Provincial Government, the Electric Power College of South China University of Technology was jointly established (the thermal power specialty of the former electric power department and the ship department merged with Guangdong Electric Power College), and the electric power engineering department, electric power engineering department, specialized department and electric power engineering research institute were established. It is the first school-running model jointly established by the government and enterprises in China. 1In August, 1997, with the approval of Guangdong Science and Technology Commission, Planning Commission and Economic Commission, the Electric Power Research Institute of South China University of Technology and the Experimental Research Institute of Guangdong Electric Power Industry Bureau jointly established Guangdong Electric Power Engineering Technology R&D Center. The electric power research institute has set up a board of directors. The first board of directors consists of 65,438+065,438+0 people from both sides. The chairman is Wu Xirong, director of Guangdong Electric Power Industry Bureau, and the former president of South China University of Technology. The vice chairman is Zhang Yulin, deputy director of Guangdong Electric Power Industry Bureau, and the directors are Wang Yeping, Tian and others. The board of directors makes decisions and supervises the school-running mode, development planning, teaching reform and the preparation and use of co-construction funds. College is the secondary unit of the school, with the establishment of the College Affairs Committee and the College Party Committee, and the implementation of the dean responsibility system.