PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC WORKS
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The number of consumers at the end of the year was 74,342, an increase of 3,440 over the 1955 figure.
Total sales (in units) were as follows:
Lighting
Public Lighting
Bulk Power
Domestic & Commercial Power
82,390,545
2,025,786
53,044,784
125,950,517
263,411,632
This is an increase of 13% on the previous year.
During the year the peak load reached a maximum of 64,700 kw., an increase of 11% over 1955. A newly com- missioned boiler unit is now in operation bringing the steam raising capacity to 1,100,000 lbs./hr. The generator capacity remains at 92,500 kw.
As a result of the ever increasing use of air-conditioning together with the construction of multi-storied buildings, it has become imperative to increase the supply to the City Centre by laying three 22 kilovolt feeders, work on which will be in hand early in 1957·
Development also continues at a high rate in the North Point area: the load on the south side of the Island, however, shows little change.
Charges for current range from 28 cents a unit to 15.4 cents a unit for lighting, and 12 cents to 11.4 cents for power. Special rates are quoted for bulk consumers of industrial power. All rates are subject to a fuel surcharge due to the increased cost of fuel, the present surcharge being 9%. This is being increased to 18% on 1st March, 1957, to take account of increased fuel prices.
In Kowloon electricity is supplied by China Light & Power Co., Ltd., whose services extend to the principal market towns in the mainland part of the New Territories and to such villages as are situated within reasonable distance of
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