The Project

Gas-fired Power Station Extension at Lamma 南丫島燃氣發電機組擴建工程

The Hong Kong Electric Company Limited (HEC) is committed to providing a reliable and cost-effective electricity supply to meet current and future power requirements of Lamma and Hong Kong Islands. A new 1,800MW power station with six 300MW units will need to be fully developed by 2012, with the first unit to begin operation by 2004.

A Site Search Study concluded that an extension to Lamma Power Station was the preferred site on condition that units were to be fired by the more environmental-friendly fuel of natural gas rather than coal. Natural gas was chosen as it could reduce the potential adverse air quality impacts by shifting of the base-load operation of existing coal-fired plants to new gas-fired units in phases while the total electricity generation in the year 2012 would be increased to 2.57 times that of 1990.

Based on the outcomes of this Site Search Study, an EIA study was conducted to determine the environmental acceptability of the proposed new extension at Lamma Island Power Station.

Title of Designated Project(s)	a) Reclamation works for the formation of 22 hectares Lamma Extension site. b) Construction and operation of a 1,800MW gas-fired combined cycle plant at the Lamma Extension site and associated transmission system. c) Laying and operation of a submarine pipeline to supply gas from a regional liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Shenzhen to the Lamma Extension site. [This/these project(s) is/are hereinafter referred to as "the Project(s)".]
Nature of Designated Project(s)	a) Reclamation works (including associated dredging works) more than 5ha in size. b) Public utility electricity power plant. c) A submarine gas pipeline.
Location of Designated Project(s)	a) Lamma Island (to the south of the existing Lamma Power Station). b) From a regional LNG terminal in Shenzhen to Lamma Island .
Scale and Scope of Designated Project(s)	The projects include the reclamation works for the formation of a 22ha Lamma Extension site to the south of the existing Lamma Power Station; construction and operation of a 1,800MW power plant (6x300MW gas-fired combined cycle units) on the Lamma Extension site and the associated transmission cable from the power plant to the landing point at Telegraph Bay; and construction and operation of about 90km submarine gas pipeline to supply gas from a regional LNG terminal in Shenzhen to the power plant.

Location(s) / Alignment(s) of this Project:

Figure A1 - The Location of 1,800MW Gas-fired Combined Cycle Plant at the Lamma Extension Site