Enigin Update - Hong Kong Promotes Energy Efficiency
HONG Kong’s Secretary for the Environment, Edward Yau, is looking to energy efficiency to reduce the energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) across all districts.
Yau revealed that almost 90 percent of Hong Kong’s electricity consumption is from buildings, contributing around 60 percent of the city’s GHG emissions.
Yau said: “We thus have a very great potential to improve energy efficiency and reduce our GHG emissions by promoting energy efficiency in buildings. Our first principal legislation tailor-made for enhancing a building’s energy efficiency was enacted last year.
“In order to raise energy efficiency in existing buildings, we launched the $450 million Buildings Energy Efficiency Funding Schemes in April 2009, which provide subsidies on a matching basis to incentivise building owners to conduct energy-cum-carbon audits and energy efficiency projects for their buildings.”
Enigin Distributors in the region are helping many businesses, industries and local authorities to reduce their energy demand and GHG emissions by implementing energy efficiency solutions from Enigin plc.
He also revealed that the city have planned several infrastructural projects to reduce carbon emissions.
Picture of Hong Kong Skyline at Night from Victoria Peak By David Iliff (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
