CLP Power strives to be more eco-friendly, reduces over 80% of primary emissions

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According to the 2011 Emissions Inventory released recently by the Environmental Protection Department of Hong Kong SAR Government, the power sector is no longer Hong Kong's major air pollution source. Emissions from road transport and navigation are now the largest sources. In an interview with Asian Power, CLP Power Hong Kong Director - Generation, Rick Truscott said that the company's emissions reduction efforts have positively contributed to improving Hong Kong's air quality. He noted that CLP has established a strategic climate change policy about ten years ago. It has proactively taken measures such as bringing in zero-emissions nuclear power and natural gas fired power generation. Additionally, it has taken significant environmental measures to minimize emissions of coal-fired power generation. These include the installation of electrostatic precipitators to remove particulates, initiated the use of ultra-low sulphur coal, and retrofitted its largest coal -generating units with large-scale desulphurisation and nitrogen oxide reduction equipment. Truscott boasts that the results of these measures have been significant where over 80% of CLP's primary emissions were reduced over the last 20 years in spite of increasing electricity