The invention discloses a remote upgrade method of a power utilization information acquisition terminal. The terminal program upgrade file transmission is finished by use of a communication channel of an acquisition system, and the State Grid Enterprise Standard Q/GDW 376.1-2009 < power consumer power utilization information acquisition system communication protocol: master station and acquisition terminal communication protocol> is expanded; on the one hand, the method supports the realization of the file transmission through a standard file transmission command so as to realize the transparent transmission of the file; on the other hand, the method supports the breakpoint resume, the file query, the ftp downloading and like functions. Therefore, the problems of failed upgrade data file issuing caused by the communication fault, the online upgrade occupied system master station resource, and unstable system caused by channel switching are avoided.