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On December 22, 2021, with the approval of the **Energy Administration, the power industry standard \"Technical Specifications for Continuous Monitoring of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Thermal Power Plants\" (DL/T 2376–2021) was officially released, and it came into effect on March 22, 2022. As the first industry technical standard for continuous monitoring of carbon dioxide emissions, it fills the gap in such standards for the power generation sector in China, further improving the technical framework for monitoring and accounting of carbon emissions in this industry. It lays a fundamental technical foundation for China’s efforts to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality. As one of the key industries included in the national carbon market from the outset, the power generation sector requires accurate and reliable carbon emission data, which serves as the foundation for the effective and orderly operation of the national carbon market. Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment disclosed typical cases of fraud in carbon emission report data, providing a comprehensive overview of the serious issues related to falsification of carbon emission calculation figures by enterprises in the power generation sector. It also exposed the shortcomings in the methods used to calculate carbon emissions in this industry. As an important technique for monitoring carbon emissions in the power generation industry, continuous flue gas emission monitoring can, to a certain extent, compensate for the shortcomings of the carbon emission calculation methods. It serves as a vital means for measuring and verifying carbon emissions in this sector, and it contributes to the advancement of intelligent and digital approaches to managing carbon dioxide emissions. Continuous monitoring of carbon emissions is an internationally accepted practice. The United States and the European Union have established relatively comprehensive policy and regulatory frameworks, along with implementation guidelines, for the continuous monitoring of CO2 emissions from power plants. Under the policies and regulations set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), thermal power plants that are subject to the Acid Rain Program (those with a generating capacity of over 25 MW) are required to report their CO2 emissions to the EPA in accordance with Section 75 of 40 CRF. Power plants that use coal or other solid fuels must employ CEMS to monitor CO2 emissions ； During the third phase of its carbon emission trading system (2013–2020), the EU stipulated that for enterprises included in the carbon market, the data on carbon emissions measured using CEMS is equivalent to the data calculated through estimation methods. In 2018, the power generation industry began research on formulating technical standards for continuous carbon emission monitoring.