The Xylom

Hong Kong is a dense city with little space for large-scale energy systems. Relying on imported fossil fuels, electricity generation is the largest source of carbon emissions here. Only less than 1% of the city’s electricity came from renewables in 2022.

The city has found an important way to increase renewable energy: rooftop solar. In 2018, the government began offering a financial incentive program, Feed-in Tariff (FiT), prompting residents and non-governmental entities to install rooftop solar systems.

Although the FiT scheme has helped reduce the time to recover the cost of one solar system installation by nearly 25 years, installations have decreased every year since the launch of the program, and the government intends to sunset the program by 2033. What's next for Hong Kong's clean energy transition?

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香港地少人多，而且依賴進口化石燃料發電。在2022年，香港只有少於1%的電力來自可再生能源；發電是其碳排放最大來源。

該市找到一個增加可再生能源的重要方法：天台太陽能。在2018年，香港政府推出一個財政補貼計劃 — 上網電價（FiT），令居民和非政府團體更積極安裝太陽能系統。

在上網電價計劃推行之前，居民安裝太陽能系統的回本期是30年，現在只需3至6年; 然而，新申請宗數和新批準發電容量自計劃推出以來按年持續下降；現時，政府計劃將於2033年終止上網電價。究竟香港的潔淨能源未來何去何從?

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📹: Selena Liang／梁錫嵐
🎬: Aorui Pi／皮奧睿