Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Where does the energy go for Hong Kong?

According to the Energy Efficiency Office of Hong Kong, the breakdown of the distribution of energy can be seen in the figure below [24]. The data is from the year 2008, so the data is fairly recent.

Based on the figure, as of 2008, taxi usage is the highest percentage of where the energy goes (20 percent), followed by space conditioning (14 percent) and goods vehicles (11 percent). The next highest energy usage to the lowest energy usage is then listed: refrigeration (10 percent), lighting (9 percent), buses (7 percent), cooking (6 percent), cars and motorcycles (6 percent), others (5 percent), hot water (5 percent), industrial processes (3 percent), marine (3 percent), and lastly rail (1 percent).