Short Talk Speaker
Biography
Mr Roger Chen joined CLP, through CLP Executive Program, in 2002. He is currently the Senior Director at CLP Holdings responsible for CLP’s nuclear business. He was seconded to Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company, a joint venture between CLP and China General Nuclear Group (CGN), as the Deputy General Manager in 2017 before taking up his current role.
Prior to joining CLP’s nuclear business, Mr Chen held various managerial positions across CLP Power Hong Kong and CLP Holdings, where his responsibilities covered corporate strategy and development, business planning, asset management, and fuel procurement.
Mr Roger Chen holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Nuclear Energy’s Role in Helping Hong Kong Decarbonise
– CLP’s Perspective as an Investor and Off-taker
Mr. Roger Chen
Abstract
The CLP Group is an investor and operator in the Asia-Pacific energy sector with investments in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Australia , India, Southeast Asia and Taiwan that span across the energy supply chain. The company first brought nuclear energy to Hong Kong in 1994 through the investment in the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station, the first large-scale commercial nuclear power station in China. Since then, nuclear energy has been safely and reliably meeting a significant part of Hong Kong’s energy needs. Nowadays, a quarter of Hong Kong’s electricity demand is powered by nuclear energy imported from Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station.
In joining global efforts on combating climate change, the short talk will introduce how CLP, as one of the major energy providers in Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region, sets its vision and goal to decarbonise its business in a longer term, and how nuclear energy has been playing a key part in the journey. The presentation will talk about nuclear power’s benefits to Hong Kong and to CLP as an investor and off-taker. Amid the latest nuclear energy development worldwide, in particular the rapid development in China in recent decades, the talk will also share views on future opportunities offered by nuclear energy to Hong Kong in the energy transition journey.