The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has halted many economic activities, but Hong Kong’s electricity consumption rose instead of falling last year.
According to the "Hong Kong Energy Statistics 2021 Annual Report" published by the Census and Statistics Department today (28th), the total electricity consumption in Hong Kong last year increased by nearly 3.7% compared with 2020, reaching 164,578 terajoules, a new high since 2011.
Among them, commercial users accounted for the largest amount of electricity, accounting for 64.4%.
Local gas consumption fell to a six-year low of 27,677 terajoules.
In addition, the aviation industry continued to stagnate last year, and the import volume of aviation gasoline and kerosene hit an 11-year low, a further drop of nearly 10% compared with 2020.
However, due to the increase in international fuel prices, the import prices of various oil products in Hong Kong recorded an increase last year, among which the import price of unleaded gasoline for motor vehicles soared by 60%.
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The Census and Statistics Department today published the "Hong Kong Energy Statistics 2021 Annual Report", describing the energy supply and demand in Hong Kong.
In terms of electricity, the total local electricity consumption last year increased by 3.7% from 158,751 terajoules in 2020, which is also an 11-year high.
In terms of user ratio, commercial users accounted for 64.4% of the total local electricity consumption last year, residential users accounted for 28.8%, and industrial users accounted for 6.8%.
As for last year's electricity sales revenue of 57.1 billion yuan, up about 8% from 2020.
The report also pointed out that local electricity consumption is mainly produced by local power plants, but in the past 10 years, the import of electricity from the mainland has shown an overall upward trend, and recorded an increase of about 17% between 2011 and 2021.
Last year, electricity imported from the mainland was 45,197 terajoules, a slight decrease of 1.1% from 2020.
In terms of electricity output from local power plants, last year hit a new high of 133,104 terajoules since 2017.
In terms of gas, the annual report pointed out that last year's total local gas consumption fell by 1% year-on-year, the lowest level since 2016, and the consumption fell to only 27,677 terajoules.
Among them, commercial users accounted for 36.4% of the total local gas consumption last year, residential users accounted for 57.9%, and industrial users accounted for 5.8%.
Import prices of all types of oil products recorded increases, with the highest increase in unleaded gasoline for vehicles
As for the import of oil products, only unleaded gasoline and LPG for motor vehicles recorded an increase in the net import volume last year, while the net import volume of other petroleum products recorded a decrease in varying degrees.
In addition, the import unit price of all types of oil products recorded a year-on-year increase in last year. Compared with 2020, the year-on-year increase in the import unit price of these oil products ranged from 7% to 60%. The least increase was for natural gas. The highest increase was for unleaded gasoline for vehicles, which rose from 2.66 yuan per liter in 2020 to 4.26 yuan per liter last year.
For aviation gasoline and kerosene, net imports were 3.69 billion liters last year, down nearly 10 percent from 4.072 billion liters in 2020.
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