Households on Hong Kong Island and Lamma Island could be hit by higher electricity bills with the government’s approval of HK Electric’s construction of a new gas-fired generating unit at an estimated cost of HK$4.1 billion.
The government was satisfied the new gas unit – a combined-cycle gas turbine with an installed capacity of 380 megawatts – was needed for the power company to meet the city’s target of increasing local electricity generation by natural gas to...
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