Abstract: This paper investigates compiling methods of greenhouse gas emission inventories in major developed countries and domestic relevant experience, and then based on the characteristics of China's power industry and the target, scale, and method of the inventory compilation, proposes the basic principle of "IPCC-recommended T2 as the major method and T3 as the subsidiary one" for compiling the greenhouse gas emission inventory of China's power industry; after referring foreign good practice in greenhouse gas accounting, by combining with the reality of the power industry in China, classifies and analyzes entities of the emission inventories and then according to the scope and definition of greenhouse gas emission inventories and the availability of data, establishes the methodological framework system for compiling the greenhouse gas emission inventories of the power industry which is in line with China's reality.

Key words: greenhouse gas, emission accounting, power industry