Founded in 1951, Shanghai university of Electric Power has long been under the management of the State Electric Power Department and localized in 2000. The school has experienced the development and evolution of Shanghai Electric Power School, Shanghai Power School, Shanghai Electric Power School, Shanghai Electric Power College, Shanghai Electric Power Institute, and began to run schools at the undergraduate level in 1985, began to run schools at the master’s level in 2006, and became a doctoral degree awarding unit in 2018, forming a complete degree authorization system for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. In 2018, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was renamed Shanghai Electric Power University. In 2019, our school was approved as a pilot unit for the construction of high-level local application-oriented universities in Shanghai, supporting our school to focus on the three disciplines of clean and safe power generation, smart grid and smart energy management with energy and electricity as the feature, and carry out the pilot construction of high-level local application-oriented universities as a whole.

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