CLP Group () and its holding company, 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. Incorporated in 1901 as China Light & Power Company Syndicate, It also has businesses in a number of Asian markets as well as EnergyAustralia in Australia. It is one of the two main electricity power generation companies in Hong Kong, the other being Hongkong Electric Company.
History
thumb|The group's first power station on Chatham Road, Hung Hom, in Hong Kong (picture taken between 1903 and 1908).
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).
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),
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;
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Hong Kong sites include Black Point Power Station, 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 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.