To meet the demand of high stability, high quality, and low losses of power systems, the advanced energy management system (AEMS) is established and revealed in this bulletin, which has been put into trial operation in Shanghai power system for almost half a year. The AEMS is novel from all aspects covering idea, theory, method, software, and engineering. The essence of AEMS is exercising the hybrid automatic control theory and technology to realize multi-objective optimal closedloop control of power systems. Based on an "event-driven" strategy, the AEMS transforms multi-objective optimal control problems into event identification and elimination by defining the unsatisfactory states of a power system as events. This bulletin concisely presents the theory and main advantages of AEMS, as well as its implementation in Shanghai power system. hybrid automatic control, multi-objective optimization, AEMS, event drivenModern power systems are complex giant ones which spread thousands upon thousands of square miles. Its control and dispatch mainly, up to now, depend on experiences of operators and the corresponding conventional EMS (energy management system) developed in the 1990s [1][2][3] . Restricted by computer technologies and power system control theory at those days, the main function of EMSs was to provide dispatchers with the operating data and information of power systems. Some EMSs might more or less offer advices to dispatchers; however, none of them was in the sense of closed-loop automatic control. The fulfillment of multi-objective optimal control was really the postponed expectation of both the theorists and engineers who dealt with power systems. We have been engaging in the AEMS (advanced energy management system) for eight years and now we have already completed the most important part of this task. The theoretical and relevant software systems have been formed, which are working for the Shanghai power sys-