Table 3.
Greenhouse gases emissions due to the electricity consumption of Hong Kong in 2010.
| Fuel Type | Used ina | kT | Combustion |
Transport |
Extraction and Processing |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO2 (tonne) | CH4 (tonne) | N2O (tonne) | CO2 (tonne) | CO2/CO2E (tonne) | CH4 (tonne) | ||||
| Hong Kong | Coal | HKE & CLP | 8669 | 21,651,347 | 228.9 | 343.3 | 169,921 | 7770 | |
| Heavy fuel oil | HKE | 6 | 18,762 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 324 | 802 | ||
| Light gas oil | HKE & CLP | 25 | 78,472 | 3.2 | 0.6 | 1328 | 3537 | ||
| Natural gas (China) | CLP | 1526 | 5,329,049 | 249.0 | 49.8 | 1560 | 106,810 | 1099 | |
| Natural gas (Australia) | HKE | 576 | 2,012,798 | 94.1 | 18.8 | 37,688 | 40,342 | 415 | |
| Overall CO2E | 29,227,812 | 210,821 | 383,580 | ||||||
| Shenzhen | Nuclearb | 127,911 | 277,140 | ||||||
| Overall CO2E | 127,911 | 277,140 | |||||||
a
HKE and CLP stand for “Hong Kong Electric” and “CLP Power”, respectively.
b
Sovacool (2008) indicates that nuclear power emits 25.09 g CO2-equivalent kWh due to the mining, processing, and transportation of nuclear fuel and 11.58 g CO2-equivalent kWh due to the operation of a nuclear power plant including cooling and fuel cycles, backup generators, and during outages and shutdowns.