Uploaded on 2019-05-10 by Philip K Ng

[The attached picture is T Park, the largest WTE generator in Hong Kong https://www.tpark.hk/en/] Hong Kong does not have fossil energy resources; therefore, all fossil energy is imported. Followings are the percentage of import value by energy type for 2018: 3.3% was electricity, 21% was coal products and 75.6% was oil products. In terms of final energy requirements, 8.8% was in the form of gas, 43.4% in the form of oil products and 47.7% in the form of electricity. In terms of final energy users, 14.1% by residential, 33.2% by commercial users and public services, and 35.3% by transportation. While Hong Kong does not have favorable conditions for large-scale commercialized renewable energy generation, the government will apply renewable energy (“RE”) on a wider and larger scale in the immediate years ahead based on mature and commercially available technologies with the public sector taking the lead. The government will also create the conditions to facilitate the private sector adopting RE. Based on currently mature and commercially available technologies, the government estimates that Hong Kong has about 3-4% of realizable RE potentials arising from wind, solar and waste-to-energy (WTE) that can be exploited between now and 2030.