HK plans power interconnection infrastructure project with mainland

Hong Kong is planning to strengthen its electricity interconnection with the mainland through a new infrastructure project, Wong Shuk-han, undersecretary for environment and ecology in Hong Kong, told China Daily in a recent interview. The project will increase the share of zero-carbon energy in Hong Kong's fuel mix for power generation in the long run, she said. "Upon completion of the enhancement of the current pipeline project — Clean Energy Transmission System — connecting the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station and Hong Kong in 2025, its transmission capacity will be increased with greater flexibility to import more clean energy from the mainland, and the share of electricity imported from the mainland in our fuel mix for electricity generation could be increased from around 25 percent to 35 percent by 2025," she said. To move further away from reliance on fossil fuels for electricity generation, the HKSAR must explore various measures including strengthening collaboration with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, thereby developing a diversified fuel mix to increase the use of zero-carbon energy," she said. Talking about the HKSAR's role in bridging the mainland's and the world's carbon markets, Wong said the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd launched an international voluntary carbon market, Core Climate, in 2022.