The invention discloses an automatic acquisition method for electricity consumption information of users, which belongs to the technical field of smart power grids. The method comprises the following steps: automatically detecting and installing an infrared hand-held console; converting to-be-downloaded data into a database file DBF in the format of dBaseIII supported by the infrared hand-held console; and uploading the database file DBF to a server from a client computer and storing the database file DBF, or downloading the database file DBF to the client computer and storing the database file DBF in the infrared hand-held console. The method provided by the invention is directed at a series of problems like poor carrier communication signals and unsmooth GPRS channels of a traditional acquisition system, fully utilizes related subject theories like an SSH framework and intelligent identification, integrates the infrared hand-held console into an acquisition system, allows DBF files in the format of dBaseIII to be generated from failed electricity consumption information of users by using an HWZJ module and finally writes electricity consumption information of users into a database through process flow consisting of downloading, reading, parsing, etc., thereby realizing intelligentization and automation of an electrical power system.