CLP Power’s Shing Kai Road (SKR) Substation is a 132/11kV transmission substation which will provide reliable electricity supply to the Kai Tak Redevelopment area. As a former airport site, Kai Tak is going to be redeveloped into an urban oasis for the sustainable livings of people. Echoing the people-centric development strategy of Kai Tak, SKR Substation is developed with a green and sustainable approach to blend in the neighbourhood environment.
The substation with one building block of two storeys and extensive soft landscapes improves the streetscape and micro-climate nearby. Advanced technologies are applied to enhance the project development so that SKR Substation is more environmentally friendly to people within and outside the substation during the entire project lifecycle. Green construction practices are implemented to reduce the construction wastes. People-centric design approach is adopted to enhance the safety and efficiencies of the future operations and maintenance activities.
Green Features
Site Aspects
- Soft landscape (30% of total site area) with vertical green provides a comfortable visual feature at the pedestrian level
- Mitigate environmental impacts such as visual effect on the surrounding area, microclimate, neighbourhood daylight access, noise, and light pollution
- Minimise impacts to the environment bring by construction activities
- Proximity to electricity load centers
Materials Aspects
- Adopt sustainable forest products, recycled materials and regional manufactured materials
- Adopt construction waste reduction programme to reduce the construction wastes by 60%
- Adopt no ozone depletion material
Energy Use
- Reduce CO2 emissions by 16%
- Reduce embodied energy in building structural elements and peak electricity demand
- Adopt renewable energy system that can generate 7% of the total energy consumption
- Comprehensive testing and commissioning programme, operations and maintenance manuals and trainings
- Provisions of metering and monitoring
Water Use
- Reduce the annual water use by 53% and effluent discharge to foul sewers by 52%
- Harvest rainwater
- Water efficient irrigation provision
Indoor Environmental Quality
- Adequate security provisions
- Mitigate indoor sources of air pollution
- Provisions of amenities for improved operations and maintenance
Innovations and Additions
- Adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology
- Project team with BEAM professionals
Story
CLP Power Hong Kong Limited (CLP Power) is committed to providing a highly reliable power supply to support Hong Kong’s development towards a greener and smarter city.
Embracing the core values of innovation and caring for the environment, CLP Power has integrated innovative technologies into newly developed SKR Substation to enhance operations performance and provide customers with safe and reliable electricity supply. It includes the application of Building Information Modelling (BIM), Virtual Reality (VR), Computational Fluid Dynamic modelling (CFD). This new substation is equipped with photovoltaic panels and electric vehicle chargers.
CLP Power has integrated environmental-friendly concepts in the design and construction of the substation in the aspects of site selection, material selection, energy efficiency, water conservation, indoor environment quality, safety, and productivity. Design details for individual substation will be adjusted according to the specific site conditions to produce the best result in meeting the social, environmental, and economic goals of sustainable development.
Through effective implementation of project development strategies, operations safety and performance of the electricity supply network have been enhanced. CLP Power is committed to integrating environmental protection concepts and innovative technologies into our newly developed substations to provide customers with a greener, smarter electricity supply.