Regional Vitality Leaders Collect to Drive Collaboration for a Sustainable Vitality Future
HONG KONG, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CLP Energy Hong Kong Restricted (CLP Energy) hosted the Affiliation of the Electrical energy Provide Trade of East Asia and the Western Pacific (AESIEAP) CEO Convention 2026 in Hong Kong from 14 – 16 September, bringing collectively over 200 leaders from the ability and vitality sector, authorities officers, policymakers, know-how firms, analysis establishments and trade companions from throughout the area. The three-day Convention featured plenary periods, roundtable discussions, enterprise matching periods and technical visits.
The Secretary for Surroundings and Ecology Mr Tse Chin-wan (sixth left) delivers welcome remarks on the welcome reception of the AESIEAP CEO Convention on 14 September, and officiates on the toasting ceremony along with AESIEAP President and CLP Energy Managing Director Mr Joseph Legislation (sixth proper), in addition to AESIEAP Council Members.
Underneath the theme “Remodeling Vitality with Intelligence”, the Convention offered a platform to debate how the trade can reply to rising electrical energy demand, local weather challenges and more and more advanced energy programs, whereas strengthening vitality system resilience, accelerating sensible vitality growth and advancing a dependable, inexpensive and low-carbon vitality future.
As CLP Energy assumes the AESIEAP presidency for the 2026–2027 time period, it goals to speed up the Asia-Pacific area’s vitality transition by way of 4 priorities: fostering high-level multilateral dialogue, selling know-how and information sharing, advancing regional decarbonisation, and unlocking new alternatives for enterprise collaboration.
The Monetary Secretary of the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area, the Honourable Paul Chan Mo-po (third proper), AESIEAP President and CLP Energy Managing Director Mr Joseph Legislation (third left), the Director of Division of Division of Financial and Monetary Affairs I of the Liaison Workplace of the Central Folks’s Authorities (LOCPG) within the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area Ms Yu Jin (second left), CLP Holdings Chief Government Officer Mr T.Okay. Chiang (second proper), AESIEAP Rapid Previous President and Group CEO of SP Group Mr Stanley Huang (first left) and AESIEAP Vice President (Delegate) and Government Vice President of Transmission for Sumatera, Java, Madura, and Bali of PT PLN (Persero) Mr Tejo Wihardiyono (first proper) officiate on the kick-off ceremony of AESIEAP CEO Convention 2026 on 15 September.
(From left) Mr Nicholas Ho Lik-chi, Commissioner for Belt and Highway, Belt and Highway Workplace, Commerce and Financial Improvement Bureau; Mr Poon Kwok-ying, Director of Electrical and Mechanical Providers; Hon Judy Chan Ka-pui, Legislative Council Member; AESIEAP Rapid Previous President and Group CEO of SP Group Mr Stanley Huang; the Director of Division of Division of Financial and Monetary Affairs I of the Liaison Workplace of the Central Folks’s Authorities (LOCPG) within the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area Ms Yu Jin; AESIEAP President and CLP Energy Managing Director Mr Joseph Legislation; the Monetary Secretary of the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area, the Honourable Paul Chan Mo-po; CLP Holdings Chief Government Officer Mr T.Okay. Chiang; Government Vice President of Transmission for Sumatera, Java, Madura, and Bali of PT PLN (Persero) Mr Tejo Wihardiyono; Hon Chan Siu-hung, Legislative Council Member; and Hon Jonathan Stuart Lamport, Legislative Council Member took a bunch picture at AESIEAP CEO Convention 2026.
AESIEAP President and CLP Energy Managing Director Mr Joseph Legislation stated, “The subsequent part of the vitality transition is not going to be delivered by infrastructure alone, nor by know-how alone. It’s going to require intelligence within the applied sciences we deploy, the grids we function, the decarbonisation decisions we make and the partnerships that carry innovation from pilot tasks to system-wide influence. By means of the AESIEAP CEO Convention 2026, we hope to work with our regional companions to construct a extra resilient vitality future, energy a brand new period of sensible vitality and form an open and collaborative vitality ecosystem, translating regional collaboration into progress on the velocity and scale required.”
AESIEAP President and CLP Energy Managing Director Mr Joseph Legislation says CLP Energy hopes to work with regional companions to construct a extra resilient vitality future, energy a brand new period of sensible vitality and form an open and collaborative vitality ecosystem by way of the AESIEAP CEO Convention 2026.
The Monetary Secretary of the Hong Kong Particular Administrative Area, the Honourable Paul Chan Mo-po, officiated on the convention because the Visitor of Honour. He stated, “over the subsequent two to 3 a long time, Asia will play an more and more vital position in world growth. As our economies increase, electrification gathers tempo and AI turns into extra broadly used, our vitality wants will proceed to develop. Hong Kong is decided to play our half because the ‘tremendous connector’ and ‘tremendous value-adder’ by deepening collaboration throughout borders and sectors, making inexperienced requirements work higher throughout markets, and strengthening regional vitality co-operation. Collectively, we are able to present the ability our economies want and construct a cleaner, safer future for the generations to comply with.”
CLP Holdings Chief Government Officer Mr T.Okay. Chiang remarked, “This 12 months’s AESIEAP CEO Convention comes at an vital time for the ability trade. Because the vitality transition is coming into a extra demanding part, intelligence should be greater than an aspiration. It should turn out to be an working functionality: the best way we plan, make investments, handle our programs and serve our prospects. That is the place intelligence turns into indispensable – bringing these collectively for a cleaner, extra resilient and extra sustainable future.”
World Vitality Council Chair, Asia and Sembcorp Industries Group President & CEO Mr Wong Kim Yin highlighted in his keynote speech that, “Intelligence shouldn’t be solely altering how vitality is consumed. It’s also altering the place demand is rising, how we function vitality programs, and what infrastructure might be required. Our process is to harness intelligence to function higher, and to construct the dependable energy capability digital progress requires.”
Established in 1975, AESIEAP is a non-governmental organisation devoted to selling exchanges and cooperation within the Asia-Pacific energy trade. Its members come from nations and areas together with China, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. As a founding member of AESIEAP, CLP has lengthy been dedicated to driving information sharing and regional collaboration throughout the Affiliation. Hong Kong hosted AESIEAP occasions in 1975, 1977 and 1991, and this 12 months marks the fourth time the town has welcomed the Affiliation’s flagship gathering. Constructing on the momentum of the CEO Convention 2026, Hong Kong will host one other main AESIEAP occasion, the Convention of the Electrical Energy Provide Trade (CEPSI) 2027, subsequent 12 months, offering a broader platform for the area’s vitality neighborhood to deepen exchanges and collaboration.
