Hong Kong’s Ocean Park will treble solar power capacity by 2020 to reduce carbon footprint and tackle climate change
- Entertainment resort plans to treble solar power capacity by 2020
- The power will be sold to HK Electric to encourage use of renewable energy across city
Hong Kong’s entertainment resort Ocean Park has vowed to tackle climate change by trebling its solar energy generation capacity by 2020, but a green group has called for even more to be done.
The resort in Southern District will install a solar power system of about 460 kilowatt-peak (kWp) or 460,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh).
Built on the rooftop of popular attraction Polar Adventure, the solar system generates about 200 kWp or 200,000 kWh of electricity annually, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 50 four-person households.
Following the new installation, the park would be able to generate about 660 kWp or 660,000 kWh of solar power a year.
The electricity would be sold to HK Electric as part of a feed-in tariff scheme introduced by the government in 2018 to encourage the use of renewable energy for domestic and commercial purposes.
The project was expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2019 and be completed by the end of 2020.
