In the era of comprehensive energy,mergence with the intelligent and smart technologies have been becoming an inexorable trend for the major of energy and power engineering.Establishing new fundamental,characteristic and practice curriculum systems for smart energy expertise is a key topic for teaching research.This paper explores the principles,connotation and strategies to develop fundamental,characteristic and practice curriculum for smart energy,focusing on education and teaching revolution ofthe major of energy and power engineering regarding to the cultivation of talents specially for smart energy era.The course knowledge of energy and power and the knowledge of big data,artificial intelligence,information control and other disciplines follow the integration principle of"model construction-data analysis-control optimization",which is an important method for the construction of theoretical courses of smart energy.In view of the cross-integration characteristics of smart energy,making full use of massive actual production data,developing comprehensive virtual simulation practical teaching courses that break through the limitations of sites,resources,equipment and personnel to achieve multi-functional teaching goals,and realizing multi-dimensional training goals are an important part of building a sound smart energy curriculum system.