BEIJING, Oct. 4, 2023
/PRNewswire/ -- On October
4th, NaaS Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: NAAS) reached
a strategic partnership with Office for Attracting Strategic
Enterprises (OASES) of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
(HKSAR) and thereby became the first batch of strategic enterprises
of OASES. John Lee Ka-chiu, Chief
Executive of HKSAR, Paul CHAN Mo-po, Financial Secretary of HKSAR,
and Vivienne Wu, CSO of NaaS,
attended the signing ceremony.
OASES is tasked with attracting representative and
high-potential strategic enterprises from around the globe, and
providing tailor-made plans to facilitate the setting up and
operations of targeted enterprises in Hong Kong.
With the layout in new-energy technology, AI and data science,
financial technology, etc., NaaS is defined as the strategic
enterprise to OASES. Along the strategic partnership, OASES will
provide one-stop facilitation services to follow up NaaS' business
development in Hong Kong, whereby
NaaS will fulfill the R&D in energy AI solutions.
It is learned that NaaS will also cooperate with HKSAR in the
future. At the end of this year, NaaS will settle in Hong Kong
Science Park, where Hong Kong's
R&D competence and academic resources will be conductive to the
set up of a research center, thus providing algorithmic support for
NaaS' global energy assets operation.
As the first U.S. listed EV charging service company in
China, NaaS provides one-stop EV
charging solutions for charging station manufacturers, operators,
OEMs and enterprises, supporting every stage of the station
lifecycle. As of June 30, 2023, more
than 652,000 chargers in over 62,000 charging stations were
connected and accessible on NaaS' network. In the first half of
2023, NaaS' charging volume runs at 2.25 billion kWh, representing
21.2% of the national total.
Previously in June this year, NaaS announced it had entered into
a definitive agreement to acquire 89.99% of the issued and
outstanding shares of Sinopower HK, which is the city's largest
charging station operator in Estates and commercial/industrial
rooftop solar PV project. NaaS hereby entered into distributed
solar energy sector and on this basis, made arrangements on new
energy service market in Hong
Kong.
According to the latest data, in 2022, a total of 2,412 EV cars
were newly registered in Hong
Kong, representing a penetration of 69.7%. As of the end of
July 2023, Hong Kong reached 63,225 EVs, accounting for
6.8% of the total vehicle count. In the next five years,
Hong Kong is expected to witness a
yearly vehicle sale of 50,000, and the penetration rate of EV will
reach 90% in the fifth year.
Against this backdrop, HK Government will step up work in the
construction of charging service infrastructure. Data showed that
by the end of March 2023,
Hong Kong had 5,775 public
charging piles, with car-to-pile ratio of 10:1, way higher than
that of Mainland China (2.5:1). Rising up to challenge of charging
difficulty in consequence of high car-to-pile ratio, HK Government
rolled out an HKD 2 billion project
of EV-charging at Home Subsidy Scheme (EHSS) in 2020, with addition
of HKD 1.5 billion to the scheme in
2022. In this July, Sinopower HK became a contractor of the
Scheme.
In August, NaaS HK, an affiliate of NaaS, tailored "one-click
charging" service for EV users in Hong Kong. Local residents can pay by month
for getting their EVs charged. In September, NaaS HK was awarded
the Best EV Charging Solution of Year.
The first half witnessed NaaS' solid movements in its
globalization layout. After acquiring Sinopower HK, on August 22nd, NaaS unveiled plans to
fully acquire the Sweden-born
leading EV charging solutions provider Charge Amps, a landmark deal
positioning the company to make significant strides to the global
energy market. Currently, NaaS has established EU Headquarters in
the Netherlands and Southeast Asia
Office and Team in Singapore, with
efforts afoot in the UAE, Oman,
Saudi Arabia and other
Middle East countries, heading to
its goal to become a leading player in the global new energy asset
operation and management services market in the long term.
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