HKEI teams up with MHI

HK Electric Investments (2638) is working with Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build a new gas-fired generation unit at Lamma Power Station.

The project using natural gas is a part of the electricity supplier's 2024-2028 development plan aiming to phase out of coal-fired generation by 2035.

HKEI chief executive Francis Cheng Cho-ying said the company fully supports the government's decarbonization goals and is committed to further reducing the carbon emissions by replacing coal-fired generation units with gas-fired ones.

The new unit called L13 is expected to be commissioned in 2029 as the fifth gas-fired combined-cycle generation unit at LPS.

The L13 unit has the same design as other gas-fired generation units now running at LPS.

In future, all these units can use both natural gas and hydrogen as fuels after proper modifications and repurposing.

HKEI said it has been studying the use and introduction of green hydrogen as one of the clean energy alternatives in Hong Kong.

The proportion of gas-fired generation by the company is set to rise to around 70 percent this year from about 56 percent last year. The ratio is expected to further increase when L13 is commissioned.

Staff reporter