Located in Beijing, North China Electric Power University (hereinafter referred to as Huadian) is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is jointly established by the board of directors of State Grid Corporation, China Electric Power Enterprise Federation and other 12 super-large power groups and the Ministry of Education.

It is a national "double first-class", "21/engineering" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform", and it is the first batch of universities implemented by the Ministry of Education. It was founded by the "School-enterprise Alliance for Training Outstanding Engineers in the Electric Power Industry" and led by the Chinese side in the energy science direction of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization University. Zhou Jian, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and Yang Yongping, president. The school motto is "unity, diligence, truth-seeking and innovation".

As of September 2, 20221,the official website of the school shows that the school is headquartered in Beijing and has a Baoding campus. The school covers an area of 1.600 mu, and the building area is 1 10,000 square meters. The school has 67 undergraduate majors.

15 national first-class majors, 1 1 national characteristic majors, and 4 national strategic emerging industries related majors; 2 national key disciplines; At present, there are 6 post-doctoral research stations, 7 first-level discipline authorization points for doctoral degrees and 23 first-level discipline authorization points for master's degrees. There are more than 3000 faculty members in this school.

School 1958 was founded in Beijing, formerly known as Beijing Electric Power Institute; 1969 moved to Hebei, renamed Hebei electric power institute (1970) and north China electric power institute (1978).

1978 was established as a national key university by the State Council. 1995, North China Electric Power University and Beijing Institute of Electric Power Economics merged to form North China Electric Power University, with its headquarters in Baoding, Hebei Province and Beijing Campus. In March 2003, in the reform of the national power system, the school was managed by the original power department and placed under the Ministry of Education.

At the same time, a board of directors composed of State Grid Corporation, China Southern Power Grid Co., Ltd. and other companies was established (renamed the board of directors in 2006) to jointly build a school with the Ministry of Education. In September, 2005, the Ministry of Education approved the school headquarters to be located in Beijing, with a separate Baoding campus and integrated management of the two places. Wang Yingbin, Guo Wenxi, Liu Jingli and other outstanding alumni have been trained.

By 2022, North China Electric Power University ranked 76th in China University of Soft Science in 2022 [6]; In 2022, ABC China University ranked 70th.