Abstract In order to optimize the effect of individuals’ aberrant power utilization detection and reinforce the recognition rate and accuracy of abnormal power consumption detection of electricity use, an aberrant power utilization identification algorithm based on electric power big data and deep learning is proposed. Taking the two-way dialogue between power users and the power company as the basic perspective, real-time monitoring and collection of power consumption dynamics of users is carried out, and the power big data collection framework is designed. The retrieval of aberrant power utilization detection indexes is completed. Based on the deep learning algorithm, the artificial neural network base operation medium is combined to quantitatively solve the aberrant power utilization indexes, completing the design of a user aberrant power utilization detection algorithm. Experimental results show that the accuracy of the designed algorithm is 0.963, the F1 value is 0.985, and the AUC value is 0.942, which can effectively identify the aberrant power utilization and has a better performance of abnormal power consumption identification and detection.