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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT

December and at the end of the year the report was under con- sideration by the Government.

Electricity on the Island is supplied by The Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. distributing alternating current at 22 KV and 6.6 KV, 3 phase, 50 cycles. Bulk consumers are supplied at 6.6 KV, industrial consumers at 346 volts 3 phase, and domestic consumers at 200 volts single phase. The amount of electricity generated in 1959 was 415,810,940 kilowatt hours, an increase of 10% over the previous year's figure.

The number of consumers at the end of the year was 91,979, an increase of 9.6% over the 1958 figure.

Total sales for 1959 were as follows:

Lighting

Public Lighting

Bulk Power

102,397,107 kwh.

3,428,772

73,282,179

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Domestic & Commercial Power

180,573,766

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359,681,824 kwh.

During the year the peak load reached a figure of 85 MW, an increase of 8.8% over 1958. The steam raising capacity is 1,666 k. lbs./hr. and generating capacity 152.5 MW. The increase in steam raising and generating capacities is the result of the com- missioning of additional plant in 'B' Station.

All demands for new or increased supplies have been met and a further 10 M.V.A. transformer has been installed in the substation serving Central District. Additional 22 KV cables have been laid to Western District and increased transformer capacity for that area will be installed during 1960. Local substations or transformer rooms increased by twenty nine and in addition five transformer kiosks were erected. The release of the former Naval Dockyard and Barracks will entail the planning of new feeders as soon as the future of the land is known.

Charges for electricity range from 28 cents a unit to 15.4 cents a unit for lighting, and 12 cents a unit to 11.4 cents a unit for power. These rates are subject to a variable fuel surcharge which, at the end of the year, was 9 per cent. Special rates are quoted for bulk consumers of industrial power.