CLP Group () and its

holding company A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies. A holding company usually does not produce goods or services itself. Its purpose is to own shares of other companies ...

, CLP Holdings Ltd (), also known as China Light and Power Company, Limited (now CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd., ), is an electricity company in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

. Incorporated in 1901 as China Light & Power Company Syndicate, its core business remains the generation, transmission, and retailing of electricity.Our operations: Assets and services
CLP official website It also has businesses in a number of Asian markets as well as

EnergyAustralia EnergyAustralia (formerly TRUenergy) is an electricity generation, electricity and gas retailing private company in Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based and listed China Light and Power ( CLP Group). EnergyAustralia als ...

in Australia. It is one of the two main electricity power generation companies in Hong Kong, the other being Hongkong Electric Company.

History

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The company was founded in Hong Kong in 1901 as China Light & Power Company Syndicate by Shewan Tomes and Company and others. In 1903, the company's first

power station A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid. Many p ...

, with a generating capacity of 75 kW, was commissioned in

Hung Hom Hung Hom () is an area in the southeast of Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. Including the area of Whampoa, Tai Wan, Hok Yuen, Lo Lung Hang and No. 12 Hill are administratively part of the Kowloon City District, with a portion west of Hu ...

at the junction of present-day Chatham Road and

Princess Margaret Road Princess Margaret Road (; lit. "Princess Road") is a road in Kowloon, Hong Kong, forming a part of Route 1. Originally called Nairn Road () with the English name after a town in Scotland and the Chinese name after the nanmu trees that grew the ...

. By 1919, the company was supplying electricity for

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s in Kowloon.Our history: 1901–1939; The beginning
CLP official website The Kadoorie family joined the CLP board of directors in 1930The 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)
Kwok Siu-tong, History Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 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 Daya Nuclear Power Plant () is a nuclear power plant located in Daya Bay in Longgang District, along the eastern extremity of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China; and to the north east of Hong Kong. Daya Bay has two 944 MWe PWR nuclear reactors bas ...

.Ashoka Mody ''Infrastructure strategies in East Asia: the untold story'' World Bank p64 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.Our history: 1997–2000; Regional expansion
CLP official website In 2018, CLP establihed 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

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, 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.

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

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

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, Southeast Asia and

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northe ...

. 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.Our history: 1970–1985; Chinese vision
CLP official website 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 The Taiwan Cement Corporation (TCC; ) is a cement company headquartered in Taiwan. Their main business includes the production and trading of cement, paper bags, and other paper products, under the "品牌水泥" namebrand. They are the centra ...

; 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 brought 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

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in Asia. While most are either coal-fired or fossil fuel power stations, the company also generates electricity using

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and

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Hong Kong

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 Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020 ...

and

Guangzhou Pumped Storage Power Station The Guangdong Pumped Storage Power Station or Guangzhou Pumped Storage Power Station () is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station near Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. Power is generated by utilizing eight turbines, each with a capa ...

Conghua Conghua District, alternately romanized as Tsungfa, is one of 11 urban districts and the northernmost district of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, China. Conghua connects the Pearl River Delta with ...

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong ...

.Our history: 1986–1996; New frontiers
CLP Official Site It also operates a Guangxi province plant, Fangchenggang power station.Our history: 2003-today; Climate action
CLP official website

India

CLP power stations in India include gas powered Gujarat Paguthan Energy Corporation's former station

Paguthan Combined Cycle Power Plant Paguthan Combined Cycle Power Plant is located in Bharuch district of Gujarat. The gas based power project is owned by CLP India Private Limited, a subsidiary of CLP Group of People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Repub ...

and a

coal-fired power station A coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity. Worldwide, there are about 8,500 coal-fired power stations totaling over 2,000 gigawatts capacity. They generate about a th ...

Mahatma Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project Mahatma Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project is located at Jharli village in Jhajjar district of Haryana. The coal based power project was developed by CLP India Private Limited, a subsidiary of CLP Group. Capacity See also * List of pow ...

Jhajjar Jhajjar is a town in Jhajjar district in the Indian state of Haryana. The city is situated on the road connecting Rewari to Rohtak (NH-352), Loharu to Meerut (NH334B), Charkhi Dadri to Delhi and Gurgaon to Bhiwani. Jhajjar is located west ...

, Haryana, that was commissioned in 2012. The company also has a number of

sites in the country.China Light and Power plans big for India
business-standard.com, 6 December 2010, 0:15 IST It has now signed up for its very first solar project - Veltoor at Telangana.

Australia

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 ACT and Queensland.

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

External links

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CLP Group official websiteCLP Group's educational website – PowerU
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