In the field of big data real-time analysis and computing, the importance of stream computing is constantly improved while the energy consumption of dealing with data on stream computing platform rises constantly. In order to solve the problems, an Energy-efficient Strategy for Threshold Control (ESTC) was proposed by changing the processing mode of node to data in stream computing. First of all, according to system load difference, the threshold of the work node was determined. Secondly, according to the threshold of the work node, the system data stream was randomly selected to determine the physical voltage of the adjustment system in different data processing situation. Finally, the system power was determined according to the different physical voltage. The experimental results and theoretical analysis show that in stream computing cluster consisting of 20 normal PCs, the system based on ESTC saves about 35.2% more energy than the original system. In addition, the ratio of performance and energy consumption under ESTC is 0.0803 tuple/(s·J), while the original system is 0.0698 tuple/(s·J). Therefore, the proposed ESTC can effectively reduce the energy consumption without affecting the system performance.