CLP Group

History

The company was founded in Hong Kong in 1901 as China Light & Power Company Syndicate In 1903, the company's first power station, with a generating capacity of 75 kW, was commissioned in Hung Hom at the junction of present-day Chatham Road and Princess Margaret Road. By 1919, the company was supplying electricity for street lights in Kowloon.

The Kadoorie family joined the CLP board of directors in 1930 and retains control of the company as of 2013.

In 1983, the company established a joint venture with Guangdong Nuclear Power for the construction and operation of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant.

On 6 January 1998, CLP Holdings Limited replaced China Light & Power Company Limited as the new holding company listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.

In 2018, CLP established a new branch, CLP Innovation (previously named) and now CLP Digital. The branch has a separate company listing, Smart Energy Connect (SEC) that provides environmentally friendly solutions.

Index constituent

As of 2013, CLP Group is a component of The Global Dow—a 150-stock index of the world's leading blue-chips. The company has been a constituent of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index (DJSI Asia Pacific), and/or the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific 40 Index (DJSI Asia Pacific 40). Since 2010, CLP has also been listed on the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index and Hang Seng (Mainland and HK) Corporate Sustainability Index.For 2010 as first year so recognized, see

• For current status, see

Electricity tariff

Basic tariff (1 January 2024 - 31 December 2024)

• https://www.clp.com.hk/content/dam/clphk/documents/tariff-adjustment-2024/TariffTable2024_CHI.pdf

Fuel cost adjustment

• https://www.clp.com.hk/zh/help-support/bills-payment-tariffs/fuel-cost-adjustment

Markets outside Hong Kong

In recent years, CLP has sought to expand outside of its native Hong Kong, accomplishing this through mergers and acquisitions. Markets outside Hong Kong it has entered include Australia (through EnergyAustralia), India, Mainland China, Southeast Asia mainly (Thailand and Indonesia) and Taiwan.

Its first market outside Hong Kong was mainland China; by way of connecting its power stations in Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland grid, CLP began supplying power in 1979.

The 1990s saw the start of expansionary M&A activity with CLP acquiring nearly a half-dozen companies between 1996 and 2005. In 1996 the company entered joint-ventures with Taiwan Cement Corporation; in 1998, part ownership of Thai Electricity Generating Public Co Ltd; and in 2001, Australian Yallourn Energy. It expanded operations in Australia to include retailing when it bought TXU Merchant Energy in 2005. And in 2002 CLP acquired an Indian company, Gujarat Paguthan Energy Corporation Private Limited.

Power stations

CLP has a number of power stations in Asia. While most are either coal-fired or fossil fuel power stations, the company also generates electricity using nuclear, solar energy and wind power.

Hong Kong

| other-color = Hong Kong sites include Black Point Power Station, Castle Peak Power Station, and Penny's Bay Power Station.

Mainland China

CLP was the equity investors of two power stations in Guangdong province, Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant and Guangzhou Pumped Storage Power Station in Conghua, Guangzhou. It also operates a Guangxi province plant, Fangchenggang power station.

India

CLP power stations in India include gas powered Gujarat Paguthan Energy Corporation's former station Paguthan Combined Cycle Power Plant and a coal-fired power station Mahatma Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project at Jhajjar, Haryana, that was commissioned in 2012.

The company also has a number of wind power sites in the country. It has now signed up for its very first solar project - Veltoor at Telangana.

Australia

EnergyAustralia is a wholly owned subsidiary of CLP and is one of Australia's largest integrated energy businesses. As of 2013, EnergyAustralia generates electricity from coal, gas and renewable energy sources, and retails electricity and gas, of 5,662MW to over 2.8 million residential and business users across Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland.

From 2005 until 2011, CLP Group held a 50% shareholding in Roaring 40s that operated wind farms in Australia, China, Hong Kong and India.

Southeast Asia and Taiwan

CLP established its presence in Southeast Asia and Taiwan in the early 1990s. Since then, they have built a portfolio of quality assets in the region.

Following the divestment of interest in EGCO in Thailand in early 2011, their investments currently consist of the Ho-Ping coal-fired project in Taiwan and the Lopburi solar farm in Thailand. They are also co-developing two coal-fired projects in Vietnam.

References

References

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2. "Shareholding Structure".
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8. [http://www.thehardoons.com/TNG/histories/kwok.pdf The Matrix of Entrepreneurship: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of A Group of Baghdadi Indian Jews in the Intersection of Shanghai/Hong Kong (Draft only: please do NOT cite)] {{Webarchive. link. (17 July 2011 Kwok Siu-tong, History Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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10. Ashoka Mody ''Infrastructure strategies in East Asia: the untold story'' World Bank p64
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12. "The Global Dow". McGraw-Hill.
13. "CLP Holdings to buy 17% stake in China nuclear plant- Nikkei Asian Review". Nikkei Asian Review.
14. [https://www.clpgroup.com/ourcompany/aboutus/ourhistory/Pages/ourhistory.aspx#tab3 Our history: 1970–1985; Chinese vision] {{Webarchive. link. (22 February 2014 CLP official website)
15. "Power generation". CLP Power Hong Kong.
16. [https://www.clpgroup.com/ourcompany/aboutus/ourhistory/Pages/ourhistory.aspx#tab4 Our history: 1986–1996; New frontiers] {{Webarchive. link. (22 February 2014 CLP Official Site)
17. [https://www.clpgroup.com/ourcompany/aboutus/ourhistory/Pages/ourhistory.aspx#tab6 Our history: 2003-today; Climate action] {{Webarchive. link. (22 February 2014 CLP official website)
18. [http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/china-lightpower-plans-big-for-india/417264/ China Light and Power plans big for India] business-standard.com, 6 December 2010, 0:15 IST
19. Group, C. L. P.. (12 July 2021). "CLP's Veltoor Plant in India Gains World's First Solar Project Certification from DNV GL".
20. [https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/pm/australian-wind-power-company-looks-to-china/1770146 Australian wind power company looks to China] ''[[PM (radio program). PM]]'' 2 June 2006
21. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090529145707/http://www.roaring40s.com/article.php?Doo=Redirect&id=287 Our Portfolio] [[Roaring 40s]]
22. [https://web.archive.org/web/20250421191205/https://www.accc.gov.au/public-registers/mergers-registers/public-informal-merger-reviews-register/hydro-tasmania-and-china-light-and-power-proposed-splitting-of-roaring-40s-wind-farm-assets Hydro Tasmania and China Light and Power - proposed splitting of Roaring 40s wind farm assets] [[Australian Competition & Consumer Commission]] 29 June 2011