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rates are subject to a variable fuel surcharge which, at the end of the year was 7%. Special rates are quoted for bulk consumers of industrial power.
China Light & Power Co Ltd, supply electricity to Kowloon and the New Territories including Lantau and many smaller outlying islands. During the year demands for more power came from many sources and the Company met them by expanding its services.
The Generating Station at Hok Yuen, facing Kowloon Bay, has a capacity of 182.5 MW which is to be increased by 60 MW early in 1962 and by a like amount later in the year. Civil works for the installation of a further two 60 MW turbo-alternators are already well advanced and will increase the capacity at Hok Yuen to 422.5 MW during the next few years.
Progress was made during 1961 in connecting more consumers in the New Territories to the supply system and a scheme was started, progressively to include all villages (however small and 'uneconomic'), which resulted in 70 being connected by the end of the year. A supply was made available to the Muk Wo Pumping Station on the Sino-British border immediately the need was made known.
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Electricity is supplied at 50 cycles AC, 200 volts for domestic and 200/340 volts for industrial consumers. Transmission is at 33 kV and primary distribution at 6.6 kV but equipment is now being installed to augment the former by a 66 kV system and to uprate the latter to 11 kV working. On the 30th September 1961, the length of the main system was: 33,000 volts, 199 miles, 6,600 volts, 274 miles. There were 346 substations and 839 transformers installed having a total capacity of 706,830 KVA. The trend for Kowloon is apparent from the figures for the financial year 1960-1:
Increase over previous year
Consumers 179,815
Units generated 962,907,500
825,761,241 units were sold made up as follows:
Lighting
Public Lighting
Power...
Bulk Supply
16.92%
20.69%
155,126,937
4,566,843
287,643,979
378,423,482
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