Generating Solar Energy

Veolia turns restored landfill sites into productive renewable energy assets, maximizing land use efficiency while supporting Hong Kong’s transition to a low-carbon and sustainable future.
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We understand your challenge

  • Hong Kong needs innovative ways to overcome limited land availability for large-scale renewable energy generation.
  • There is a critical need to accelerate green energy development to achieve the nation’s carbon neutrality target by 2060 and Hong Kong’s target by 2050.  
  • Communities require solutions that maximize land use efficiency on closed or idle infrastructure, such as restored landfill sites.

Explore our solutions for you!

Veolia transforms overlooked infrastructure into productive assets by developing renewable energy solutions on repurposed land.

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Pioneering Land Repurposing

We turned an idle landfill slope into Hong Kong's largest solar installation of its kind. The project utilizes approximately 140,000 square feet within an 80-hectare restored landfill area, showcasing the massive potential for additional development.
 

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Integrated Green Functions

The solar farm allows the site to successfully achieve three green functions in one location: solar power generation, construction waste processing, and landfill gas production and utilization.

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Grid Contribution

This project is Hong Kong’s first solar farm built on a restored landfill that participates in the Feed-in Tariff Scheme

Discover our core features

  • Jointly developed by Veolia, Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP), and CITIC Pacific, demonstrating successful cross-sector collaboration to drive energy transition.  
  • Operated by Veolia and integrating Veolia's global environmental expertise with local operational leadership.  
  • Facilitates a closed-loop ESG model, demonstrated by SUNeVision purchasing CLP Renewable Energy Certificates linked to the solar farm to achieve 100% clean energy usage. 
     

Generates

1.2 million 
kWh

annually

Powers

360
households

annually

Reduces

530,000 kg

of carbon emission annually

Equivalent to

20,000

of trees being planted

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Why work together with us?

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Global expert and local experience

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Innovating overlooked infrastructure into green assets

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High standard of service, safety and compliance

 

 

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