Get Your Own Businessabc AI Visibility ID
Boost AI visibility, credibility, and discoverability
CLP Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in Hong Kong, Mainland China, India, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and Australia. The company generates electricity through coal, gas, nuclear, and renewable resources, such as wind, hydro, and solar. It serves 5.15 million retail customers in Hong Kong and Australia. The company is also involved in the provision of pumped storage services, and energy and infrastructure solutions; property investment activities; and retail of electricity and gas. It has generating capacity of 20,018 equity megawatts; and 16,834 kilometers of transmission and high voltage distribution lines. CLP Holdings Limited was founded in 1901 and is based in Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
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, 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 establihed a new branch, CLP Innovation and now CLP Digital. The branch has a separate company listing, Smart Energy Connect that provides environmentally friendly solutions.
In a changing world, our mission is to produce and supply energy with minimal environmental impact to create value for shareholders, customers, employees and the wider community.
CLP's vision is to be the leading responsible energy provider in the Asia-Pacific region, from one generation to the next.
