The Brightest City in the

World
“Hongkong”
By: John Rovic B. Cruz
 Brief information about Electricity
Consumption
•Energy in Hong Kong 

•Hongkong generates most of its electricity locally. The vast majority of this
energy comes from fossil fuels, with 46% from coal and 47% from
petroleum. The rest is from other imports , including nuclear energy
generated in mainland China. Renewable sources account for a negligible
amount of energy generated for the territory. Small-scale wind power
sources have been developed, and a small number of private homes and
public buildings have installed solar panels.

•In 2021, 178,301 TJ or terajoule (49.528 TWh or terra watt per hour) of

electricity was consumed, accounting for 51.8% of total energy consumption
in Hong Kong. Electricity usage based on industry in Hong Kong are 66%
(commercial), 26% (residential), 6% (industrial) and 2% (transportation).
Peak demand of electricity use was 9.942 GW or gigawatts
 Percentage of Energy Consumption
Commercial

Residential

Industrial
Transportation; 2%
Industrial; 6% Transportation

Residential;
26%

Commercial;
66%
 Energy Resources in Hongkong
•Coal
•Hong Kong meets its coal demand through imports. In 2021, 6.5 million tons of
coal were imported. In recent years, Indonesia (81.9%) has become the largest
supplier, followed by Russia (10.3%), Australia (5.3%) and Canada (2.4%).
•Most of the energy generated by coal in Hong Kong is for electricity
generation. Hong Kong currently has a total of about 5 GW of capacity for coal-
fired power stations.

•Natural gas
•Natural gas was first introduced for electricity generation in Hong Kong in
1996. Black Point Power Station was first commissioned in 1996 and has
increased capacity to 3.2 GW in 2020. Lamma Power Station, originally
commissioned as a coal power plant, has expanded to include gas turbines
since.

•Nuclear
•Hong Kong has no indigenous supply of nuclear energy and there is no
nuclear power station in the territory. However, Hong Kong has imported
electricity from Mainland China from the Daya Bay Nuclear Power
Plant in Shenzhen, Guangdong since 1994.
Hydro
Hong Kong has one hydropower plant in Tuen Mun coupled with a water treatment
plant, but otherwise lacks rivers with significant flow to generate hydropower.
Oil
Oil products imported to Hong Kong have always mostly come from Singapore.
Singapore accounted for 75.8% of fuel oil imports and 75.4% of unleaded motor
gasoline imports. Mainland China and Macau are the two largest destination for oil
products re-exporting from Hong Kong.
Solar
Hong Kong has been using solar energy over the past 20 years. As of 2013, there
is a 1 MW installed capacity of photovoltaic at Lamma Power Station, doubling its
size from 550 kW since its first commissioning in July 2010.
Wind
Hong Kong has a very small scale of wind power generation since early 2006,
which is the Lamma Winds at Lamma Island with an installed capacity of 800 kW.
In March 2013, HK Electric has just completed the full-year wind measurement for
a proposal of offshore wind farm project in Southwest Lamma Island.
 Cost of Living in Hongkong
• Summary about cost of living in Hong Kong, Hong
Kong (China):
• Family of four estimated monthly costs
are 213,203.60₱ (30,330HK$) without rent.
•A single person estimated monthly costs
are 59,836.40₱ (8,512.3HK$) without rent.
• Hong Kong is 95.0% more expensive
than Manila (without rent).
• Rent in Hong Kong is, on average, 243.7% higher than
in Manila.
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