Abstract:Competitive electric markets have caused many plants to cut cost and change traditional operation practices. It will be a new system of organization and new model for power co-corporation to set up professional operative company implementing plant's professional operation in order to be cost-effective and maximize the profit. This article mainly discusses the strategies, barriers and risks when outsourcing power plant's operation based on the theories of business outsourcing, while proposing some comments on the problems of management and the risk control in outsourcing of operation.