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Hong Kong Looks to Sea for Clean Energy in Land-Starved City

  • CLP may propose offshore wind farm for next plan starting 2023
  • City wants to move from fossil fuels to carbon-free by 2050
Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
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Hong Kong’s CLP Holdings Ltd. is looking offshore to help meet a growing need for renewable energy, as limited land supply in the city poses a challenge to building clean-power capacity.

CLP, one of the two main electricity generators in the city, said it is revisiting offshore wind technology, and may submit proposals for an offshore wind farmBloomberg Terminal to the local government for their next five-year development plan starting 2023.