Hong Kong is full of contradictions: as the city with the most skyscrapers in the world, it has 40% of its land designated as country parks. It is the city with the second-highest concentration of billionaires in the world, yet its local government has seen a budget deficit for five of the past six financial years. The average Hong Kong resident uses less than half the energy of the average American and one-fifth that of the average Singaporean. However, over 60% of Hong Kong’s carbon footprint can be attributed to electricity generation by fossil fuels.
Rooftop solar promises to thread the needle, taking advantage of Hong Kong’s dense, vertical landscape to provide clean, reliable, affordable energy.
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