CLP Group
A CLP Power Shop in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Traditional Chinese	中電集團
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Zhòngdiàn Jítuán Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping zong1 din6 zaap6 tyun4
China Light and Power Co., Ltd.
Traditional Chinese	中華電力有限公司
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Zhònghuá diànlì yǒuxiàn gōngsī Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping zong1 waa4 din6 lik6 jau5 haan6 gong1 si1

The CLP Group (Chinese: 中電集團) and its holding company, CLP Holdings Ltd (SEHK: 0002) (Chinese: 中電控股有限公司), is a Hong Kong electric company that has businesses in a number of Asian markets and Australia.

Incorporated in 1901 as China Light & Power Company Syndicate,^[1] its core business remains the generation, transmission, and retailing of electricity.^[2]

History[link]

CLP Group Headquarters in Hong Kong, 2007.

Founded in Hong Kong in 1901 as China Light & Power Company Syndicate^[1] with capital provided by Shewan Tomes and Company and the Kadoorie family,^[3] by 1919 it had established a power station and was supplying electricity for street lights in Kowloon.^[1]

The Kadoorie family joined the CLP board of directors in 1930^[3] and may retain control of the company today.^[4]

In 1983 the company established a 25/75 joint venture with Guangdong Nuclear Power for the construction and operation of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant.^[5]

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.^[6]

As of 2009, CLP Group is a constituent of The Global Dow and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.^[7]

Overseas markets[link]

In recent years CLP has sought to expand outside of its native Hong Kong accomplishing this through mergers and acquisitions. Overseas markets it has entered include Australia,^[6] India,^[6] Laos,^[8] Mainland China,^[9] Philippines,^[8] Taiwan,^[9] and Thailand.^[6]

Its first overseas market was Mainland China. By connecting its power stations in Hong Kong to the Chinese grid,^{[citation needed]} CLP began supplying power to that country in 1979.^[10]

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 purchased Taiwan Cement Corporation;^[9] in 1998, part ownership of Thai Electricity Generating Public Co Ltd;^[6] and in 2001, Australian Yallourn Energy.^[6] It expanded operations in Australia to include retailing when it brought TXU Merchant Energy in 2005.^[7] And in 2002 CLP acquired an Indian company, Gujarat Paguthan Energy Corporation Private Limited.^[6]

CSR[link]

Since 2002 the company has published yearly reports on the environmental and social impact it has made.^[11]

Power stations[link]

CLP has a number of power stations in Asia. While most are either coal-fired or fossil fuel power stations,^{[citation needed]} the company also generates electricity using nuclear^[9] and wind power.^[8]

Hong Kong[link]

Hong Kong sites include Black Point Power Station,^[9] Castle Peak Power Station,^[10] and Penny's Bay Power Station.^[9]

Mainland China[link]

CLP has two power stations in Guangdong province, Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant and Guangzhou Pumped Storage Power Station in Conghua, Guangzhou.^[9] It also operates a Guangxi province plant, Fangchenggang power station.^[7]

India[link]

CLP power stations in India include Gujarat Paguthan Energy Corporation's former station^[8] and a planned coal-fired power station at Jhajjar, Haryana, that may become operational in 2012.^[8]

The company also has a number of wind power sites in the country.^[8]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• CLP Group official website
• CLP Group's educational website - PowerU

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CLP may stand for:

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Businesses[link]

• Caja Laboral Popular, a Spanish savings bank
• China Light and Power, now CLP Group
• Connecticut Light and Power Company

Computing, mathematics, and technology[link]

• AS/400 Control Language IBM command line interpreter language
• CLP(R), a Prolog related programming language
• COIN-OR Linear Program Solver, an Open Source code for solving linear programming problems
• Communication Linking Protocol A protocol used to communicate with some ReFLEX Network Devices
• Congruence lattice problem
• Constraint logic programming
• Convergent Linux Platform

Political parties[link]

• Canadian Labour Party
• Communist Labor Party of America, one of the organizational predecessors of the Communist Party USA
• Communist Labour Party (Syria)
• Constituency Labour Party, an organisation of members of the British Labour Party who live in a particular UK parliamentary constituency
• Country Liberal Party, Northern Territory, Australia

Professional certifications[link]

• Certificate in Legal Practice (Malaysia)
• Certified Landscape Professional
• Certified Lotus Professional

Other uses[link]

• AOL Community Leader Program
• City of London Police
• Classification, Labelling and Packaging of chemicals, see CLP Regulation
• Cleaner, Lubricant, Preservative, a weapons fluid meeting Military Specification MIL-L-63460
• Cornish Language Partnership
• CLP, ISO 4217 currency code of the Chilean peso
• Cleft lip and palate
• Cloppenburg (district), Germany, car sign
• Common Life Project, Commune in Leonberg, Germany

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