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PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES

link between groups of isolated villages at the eastern extremity of the Sai Kung peninsula.

PUBLIC UTILITIES

Electricity. The generation and distribution of electricity supplies on the Island is done by The Hongkong Electric Co Ltd, from their North Point 'A' and 'B' Power Stations.

The total steam raising capacity is 1,981 klbs/hr and the total generating capacity is 170 MW. No new generating plant was commissioned during 1961.

The primary and secondary transmission voltages are 22 kV, 11 kV and 6.6 kV, with 33 kV transmission to be established within the next two years. Bulk supplies are given at 6.6 kV, with industrial and domestic supplies at 346 volts 3 phase 4 wire and 200 volts single phase respectively.

New primary substations at Wong Nai Chung Gap and Hospital Road East were completed during the year and the Hospital Road West substation is being rebuilt. Four more primary substations are soon to be developed or re-developed. Thirty five secondary substations were among the many distribution department projects completed in 1961.

The 1961 maximum demand on the generating plant increased by 10.4% to 114 MW and the greatest output by the stations in any one day increased by 5.1% to 1,778,570 kilowatt hours.

The amount of electricity generated in 1961 was 530,149,740 kilowatt hours, an increase of 13.7% over the previous year, and the number of consumers at the end of the year was 106,171 an increase of 7.5%. The total sales of electricity for 1961 were as follows:

Lighting

Sulk Power

Public Lighting

Domestic & Commercial Power

126,560,922 kWh

4,128,471

85,227,926

244,933,437

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460,850,756 kWh

Charges for electricity range from 28 cents to 15.4 cents a unit for lighting and 12 cents to 11.4 cents a unit for power. These