Submitted by admin on Dec 13th 2012, 12:00am Comment›Insight & Opinion SCMP Editorial No one likes a tariff increase. In the case of electricity bills, public sentiment is even stronger. For decades, an archaic business agreement with the government guaranteed the two power companies a maximum return on their investment. Despite efforts to reduce the [...]
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Legco votes down tariff motion
08-02-2012 The Legislative Council has voted down a motion to force the disclosure of details of the two power companies’ tariff increase proposals, by invoking the Powers and Privileges Ordinance. CLP Power and Hong Kong Electric have provided a Legco panel with part of the information, but asked for some data to be kept confidential. [...]
No easy escape from the powers that be
South China Morning Post – 23 Dec. 2011 Everyone is so upset at the greed of the power companies that even chief executive candidate Henry Tang Ying-yen has jumped on the bandwagon. The former chief secretary yesterday denounced the power supply market as uncompetitive and called for it to be opened up. That’s all very [...]
Pull plug on power duopoly, Tang says
South China Morning Post – Clear the Air says: Tang was extremely silent (without a speech writer) whilst being number 2 in the Administration in his last day job. Now he wants the number one job he is more vocal which suggests he was incompetent in his former job or basically had no say, so [...]
Letters to the Editor: Expensive, unsightly wind farms will have tiny impact on carbon footprint
Last updated: March 21, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post I refer to the article concerning the plans by power firms’ CL Power and Hongkong Electric (SEHK: 0006) to pump HK$10 billion into offshore wind farms (“Clearly inadequate”, March 14). I have to question the wisdom of these proposals. Not content with defacing Lamma with [...]
Environment questions for Undersecretary of the ENB remain uinanswered
Clear the Air says: This week we had the dust cloud from China sending our already high pollution levels off the scale. An EPD spokesman on 22nd March stated that they had instructed the power companies to burn gas to try and alleviate the air quality. The statement was made by Mr Mok Wai Chuen, [...]
Greens laud Lamma wind farm plan as breath of fresh air
Hongkong Electric will today announce plans to develop an offshore wind farm close to Lamma Island and will forward an environmental impact assessment for public inspection. The site chosen for the project is southwest of the island. Last year, the government gave CLP Power the go-ahead for an offshore wind farm, which may become the [...]
CLP Power can take lead in pollution fight
The failure of the Copenhagen climate summit to cut a deal to tackle rising temperatures effectively is a sad indictment of leaders’ claims to be taking the matter seriously. In the absence of a unified effort, governments have to implement their own targets and rules to reduce the carbon emissions that are causing global warming. [...]
Two million consumers to pay more, but Hongkong Electric tariff frozen
CLP Power (SEHK: 0002) was yesterday given government approval to raise its tariff by 2.6 per cent next year, including the basic tariff, which was adjusted for the first time in 10 years. But Hongkong Electric (SEHK: 0006)’s charges for next year will be frozen. The approved increase for more than two million power users [...]
CLP Power replaced generators in island with wind and solar power
Transfer electricity to the islands had long been a problem for the engineers in power plants. Neither using submarine cables nor overhead lines would be practical for the electricity supply to the island. Using an overhead line would damage the sea view, but using submarine cable would damage coral in the sea. However building wind [...]