Together with the Water Supplies Department of the HKSAR Government, this new award was due to the innovative achievement for developing an Inline Hydro Power Generation System for urban water pipelines from a consultancy project completed in 2011. Since 2012, the research team members have been working with the industry through two more consultancy projects and one ITF project named "Research and Development of Novel Inline Hydropower and Energy Storage Systems for Power Supply to Data Monitoring Systems of Medium Water Pipelines" for further developing this technology.