Table 4.
SO2 and NOx emissions due to the electricity consumption of Hong Kong in 2010.
| Fuel Type | Used in | kT | Combustion |
Transport |
Extraction and Processing |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SO2 (tonne) | NOx (tonne) | SO2 (tonne) | NOx (tonne) | SO2 (tonne) | NOx (tonne) | ||||
| Hong Kong | Coal | HKE & CLP | 8669 | 3814.5 | 4854.9 | – | – | ||
| Heavy fuel oil | HKE | 6 | 6.9 | 8.6 | 21.2 | 21.3 | |||
| Light gas oil | HKE & CLP | 25 | 28.3 | 35.4 | 86.8 | 87.4 | |||
| Natural gas (China) | CLP | 1526 | – | – | – | – | |||
| Natural gas (Australia) | HKE | 576 | 829.6 | 1037.0 | – | – | |||
| Overall emissions | 17,770 | 27,010 | 4679.3 | 5935.9 | 108.0 | 108.7 | |||
| Shenzhen | Nuclear | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Overall emissions | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||