of the Executive Council to discuss land reclamation, Bendyshe Layton suggested to Sir Catchick Paul Chater that Hong Kong acquire an electricity generator.

[5] Chater, who was to remain a director of the new Hongkong Electric Company for 37 years, took charge of raising finance for the project.

As a result, the first power station in Hong Kong was secretly built on the site of an old graveyard in Star Street, Wan Chai.

The power grid was extended underground to West Point then later to Victoria Peak and Shau Kei Wan.

Casualties from the battle included the plant's manager Vincent Sorby, who died in a prison camp of wounds received during the attack.

[13] In July 2010, the company commissioned the largest commercial-scale solar power system in Hong Kong.

Based on amorphous silicon thin film photovoltaic (TFPV) technology, the requisite solar panels are located on the rooftops of the main building of Lamma Power Station.

[14] With an installed capacity of 550 kilowatts (740 hp), on completion in 2011 the plant's annual output is forecast at 620,000 kilowatt-hours (2,200,000 MJ).

Built in the colonial architecture style, it was later demolished and is now the site of Art Deco residential flats at 31, Wing Fung Street.