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Professional Registration

The Architects Registration Ordinance and the Engineers Registration Ordinance were enacted in 1990. The registration boards have been set up and there are now 875 Registered Architects and 850 Registered Professional Engineers.

The Surveyors Registration Ordinance and the Planners Registration Ordinance were enacted in July 1991. Their registration boards are now being established and the registers will soon be open to applicants.

Registration for all four professions requires, in addition to approved professional qualifi- cations, ordinary residence and at least one year's professional experience in Hong Kong.

Electricity

Electricity supply is currently provided by two commercial companies the Hongkong Electric Company Limited (HEC), which supplies Hong Kong Island and the neighbouring islands of Ap Lei Chau and Lamma, and China Light and Power Company Limited (CLP), which supplies the whole of Kowloon and the New Territories, including Lantau and a number of outlying islands.

The two supply companies are investor-owned and do not operate on a franchise basis. The government monitors the financial arrangements of the companies through schemes of control. The schemes require each company to submit to the government for approval a Financial Plan setting out the financial consequences over a period of at least five years of -the companies' planned activities, including the forecast tariff levels.

In Kowloon and the New Territories, electricity is supplied by CLP's three affiliated generating companies Peninsula Electric Power Company Limited (PEPCO), Kowloon Electricity Supply Company Limited (KESCO) and Castle Peak Power Company Limited (CAPCO). CLP has a 40 per cent stake in each of these affiliated companies, with the remaining 60 per cent being owned by Exxon.

PEPCO, KESCO and CAPCO have operating service agreements with CLP under which CLP constructs, commissions, operates and maintains the electricity generating facilities for these companies. The generating facilities include Tsing Yi ‘A' (720 MW) and Tsing Yi 'B' (800 MW) which are owned by PEPCO; Hok Un (264 MW) and Castle Peak 'A' (1 640 MW) which are owned by KESCO; and the Castle Peak 'B' (2 708 MW) which is owned by CAPCO. The total installed capacity of CLP at the end of 1991 was 6 132 MW. In addition, a 300 MW gas turbine power station is under construction at Penny's Bay, Lantau for commissioning in 1992 to meet the expected load growth.

CLP's transmission system operates at 400 kV, 132 kV and 66 kV, and distribution is effected mainly at 33 kV, 11 kV and 346 volts. The supply is 50 hertz alternating current, normally at 200 volts single phase or 346 volts three phase.

To serve its consumers, CLP has more than 159 primary and over 6 440 secondary substations in its transmission and distribution network. An extra high voltage trans- mission system at 400 kV to transmit power from the Castle Peak Stations to the various load centres was completed in 1986. It comprises a double-circuit overhead line system encircling the New Territories, underground cables and seven extra high voltage substations. Construction and planning work for the addition of new extra high voltage substations and for reinforcement of the existing system are currently in progress.

For the HEC's supply areas, electricity is completely supplied from the Lamma Power Station. At the end of 1991, the total installed capacity at the Lamma Power Station was