Steady Performance Delivers Dependable Growth

CLP Holdings Limited (CLP) is pleased to announce today that Group operating earnings in 2016 increased 7.1% to HK$12,334 million from a year earlier. Total earnings were down 18.8% to HK$12,711 million after taking into account one-off items that affected comparability including a significant contribution from the sale of the Iona Gas Plant in Australia in 2015. The Board has recommended a fourth interim dividend for 2016 of HK$1.09 per share which, together with the three dividends already paid, brings 2016’s total dividends to HK$2.80 per share, an increase from HK$2.70 in the previous year.