CLP Power Hong Kong Limited (CLP Power)’s Smart Grid Experience Centre is the first exhibition and education facility of its kind in Hong Kong. The Centre will help raise public awareness of smart grid by showcasing the features and benefits of smart grid together with the latest smart grid-specific technology and development. It will also demonstrate the research and development projects currently undertaken by CLP Power in this area.

Smart grid development is in line with an emerging global trend of power grid modernisation that will see transmission, distribution and metering infrastructures being integrated with advanced digital and communication technologies. The smart grid incorporates reliable and efficient infrastructures and intelligent systems and installations together with advanced monitoring and management solutions. By using a variety of sophisticated technologies, the smart grid will support renewable generation and utilization, strengthen power grid resilience and engage customers more actively in energy saving and demand side management.

For supply networks, the smart grid combines renewable energy, distributed resources (including power storage devices), online condition monitoring and network/substation automation. Given its capacity for continuous monitoring and diagnosis of power equipment and network conditions, together with its automatic fault isolation and power restoration capabilities, the smart grid can enhance supply reliability, safety, efficiency and power quality. Two-way data communication between customers and the power company is also made possible with the availability of new technologies like smart meter, providing more choices and control for energy usage. This will help engage customers more actively in energy saving to achieve greater environmental and economic benefits.