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Powering a Carbon-Free Hong Kong - PATHWAYS TOWARDS A NET-ZERO EMISSIONS POWER

16 Nov 2021

The energy sector is the most important Collaboration will drive greater investment, sector for Hong Kong to win the race to zero innovation, and talent to the region, laying emissions, as electricity generation is Hong the foundation for the GBA to lead the global Kong’s dominant source of greenhouse gas energy transition. [...] plan to continue phasing out coal for electricity generation to 25 percent of the energy mix, CLP supplies electricity to Kowloon and the New to increase the share of natural gas to 50 Territories, including Lantau, Cheung Chau, and percent by 2020, and to increase non-fossil fuel most of the outlying islands. [...] Situated adjacent to the WENT Landfill and CLP’s Black Point Power Station, this new location Despite the benefits of integrated waste offers multiple advantages, including the ability management and the potential for incineration, to share existing infrastructure, such as berthing the people of Hong Kong are resistant to facilities and the easy disposal of ash residue the new Shek Kwu Chau incine. [...] The majority of wind power a consortium led by the Solar Energy Research comes from a single 0.8 MW Lamma Wind turbine Institute of Singapore of the Natural University of operated by the Hong Kong Electric Company Singapore for the Singapore government. [...] The cost increase is dominated by the capital cost of the capture facility, usually accounting for more than half of the total cost of capture, as seen from the operating experience of the first-generation CCS retrofit plants (IEA 2020a).

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