Due to the rapid growth of the air conditioning load of the residents had bigger impact on power grid safety and power smooth operation, in order to improve energy conservation and reduce emissions of the residents, many countries had studied the home energy management system (HEMS) in the world. In this paper, based on the summary of the work of other countries, the HEMS research and practice situation of China were discussed, combined with the national development and reform commission (NDRC) project, the power consumption visualization empirical research had been carried on in different cities in 2012, the interaction results show that the load can be reduced by an average of 6.67%, which proved that the electricity interactive was very interesting for long-term strategy of energy conservation and emissions reduction.