华北电力大学是教育部直属全国重点大学，是国家“双一流”建设高校、“211工程”建设高校，是教育部与国家电网有限公司等七家特大型电力企业集团组成的理事会共建高校，被誉为“中国电力行业的黄埔军校”。学校创建于1958年，原名北京电力学院，1969年迁至河北邯郸，1970年更名为河北电力学院，1978年经国务院批准为全国重点大学，同年更名为华北电力学院，1995年华北电力学院与北京动力经济学院合并组建华北电力大学，校部设在保定，分设北京校区。2005年10月，经教育部批准，学校校部由保定迁至北京，分设华北电力大学保定校区，两地实行一体化管理。

North China Electric Power University (NCEPU) is a key national university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is a "Double First-Class" construction university and a "211 Project" construction university. It is a council-co-constructed university composed of the Ministry of Education and seven large state-owned power enterprise groups including the State Grid Corporation of China. It is known as the "Whampoa Military Academy of China's power industry". Founded in 1958, the university was originally named Beijing Electric Power College. In 1969, it moved to Handan, Hebei Province, and was renamed Hebei Electric Power College in 1970. In 1978, it was approved by the State Council as a national key university and renamed North China Electric Power College in the same year. In 1995, North China Electric Power College merged with Beijing Institute of Power Economics to form North China Electric Power University, with its headquarters in Baoding and a branch campus in Beijing. In October 2005, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the headquarters of the university was moved from Baoding to Beijing, and the Baoding Campus of North China Electric Power University was established, and the two places are managed integrally.

学校以电力特色鲜明，形成了电气、能源动力、控制、管理、环境、机械等优势学科群，构建了“以优势学科为基础，以新兴交叉学科为生长点，以文理学科为支撑”的学科生态体系。学校拥有“电力系统及其自动化”“热能工程”2个国家重点学科，“动力工程及工程热物理”“电气工程”“控制科学与工程”等多个一级学科进入ESI全球前1%行列。在第四轮学科评估中，电气工程和动力工程及工程热物理两个学科分别获得A和A-等级，位居全国前列。学校坚持立德树人根本任务，培养了大批德才兼备的高素质人才，毕业生在能源电力行业及社会各领域发挥着重要作用，享有良好声誉。

The university is distinctive for its power industry characteristics, forming advantageous discipline groups such as electrical engineering, energy and power engineering, control science and engineering, management, environment, and machinery. It has built a disciplinary ecological system of "based on advantageous disciplines, taking emerging interdisciplinary disciplines as growth points, and supported by arts and sciences disciplines". The university has 2 national key disciplines: "Power System and Automation" and "Thermal Energy Engineering". Several first-level disciplines such as "Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics", "Electrical Engineering", and "Control Science and Engineering" have entered the top 1% of ESI globally. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation, the two disciplines of Electrical Engineering and Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics obtained A and A- grades respectively, ranking among the top in the country. Adhering to the fundamental task of cultivating virtues and talents, the university has cultivated a large number of high-quality talents with both ability and political integrity. Graduates play an important role in the energy and power industry and various fields of society and enjoy a good reputation.