Reducing Cooling Energy Consumption

Veolia delivers reliable and sustainable district cooling solutions ensuring energy efficient and environmentally responsible cooling for Hong Kong communities and businesses.
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We understand your challenge

  • Air conditioners in Hong Kong account for 30% of annual energy use
  • Heavy electricity use for cooling affects air quality
  • Energy-efficient cooling methods can significantly improve health and wellbeing

Explore our solutions for you!

Veolia designs, builds, operates, and maintains district cooling systems. By generating chilled water at a central plant and distributing it via an underground pipe network for efficient cooling at buildings. This innovative approach removes the need to for standalone chillers and cooling towers.

Seawater Cooling Exchangers

  • Heat rejection for chillers.

Central Chiller Plant

  • Generate chilled water for cooling purposes in a centralised facility for higher efficiency and lower electricity consumption.

Distribution Network

  • Distribute chilled water at 6°C to buildings through a network of underground pipes.

Centralised Control and Monitoring

  • Each plant is operated 24/7 by skilled personnel, helped by AI tools, ensuring the chillers are used at their maximum performance.

Discover our core features

Resilient design for continuous operation

  • A "three- pipe system" (1 for supply, 1 for return and 1 for standby) to increase reliability
  • Dual supply of electricity to guarantee power supply
  • Adaptable to varying cooling demand
  • Real time monitoring for optimal network management

Savings of

20%

compared with traditional air-cooled air-conditioning systems

Savings of

35% 
compared with individual water-cooled air-conditioning systems using cooling towers

2nd 
in district heating and cooling networks in Europe

 

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