OREANDA-NEWS. June 27, 2013. CLP Power Hong Kong (CLP Power) launches a community - wide energy saving competition to encourage people across the city to cut down on their power consumption, choose to adopt a more environmentally friendly lifestyle in order to contribute towards a greener Hong Kong.

The competition – titled “Let’s Save Now for a Better Future” – aims to encourage residential customers to cut down their energy consumption over the two – month contesting period.

Households achieving high energy savings compared to the same period last year will be able to win attractive rewards such as electricity rebates and HKD10,000 gift coupons. Organised with the support of the government and all 14 district councils in the CLP Power supply areas in Kowloon, the New Territories and Lantau, the competition seeks to bring about long - term changes in people’s behaviorur, cutting unnecessary electricity use and helping them to adopt a low carbon lifestyle.

It also has a synergy with the latest government initiative ‘Hong Kong: Our Home’ campaign to encourage Hong Kong people to adopt a low carbon lifestyle. The “Let’s Save Now for a Better Future” energy saving competition aims to demonstrate how simple energy saving measures can help Hong Kong people collectively improve the environment while enjoying the benefit of lower electricity bills.

The competition runs from  1 August until 30 September, 2013. To sign up for it, customers can simply log on to the CLP website at www.clponline.com.hk/eo. (For details of the competition, please refer to the appendix.)