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Taipower was established on 1 May 1946. Its origins can be traced to 1919 when Taiwan Electric Power Co. was founded during Japanese colonial rule.In the subsequent decades, the Sun Moon Lake hydropower project was completed, and the company built a transmission line that connected northern Taiwan with the south.
Taipower operates three types of power plant based on the generation characteristics, which are peaking power plant, load following power plant and base load power plant. [ 12 ] In 2012, the base load power sources constituted 42.4% of the total power generation in Taiwan, below the expected level of 55–65%.
Although the Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), a state-owned enterprise, is in charge of providing electricity for the Taiwan area, a 1994 measure has allowed independent power producers (IPPs) to provide up to 20% of the island's energy needs. [132] Indonesia and Malaysia supply most of Taiwan's natural gas needs. [132]
Taiwan has one active nuclear reactors, the Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant. Nuclear energy is controversial, and the privatization of the energy market (with Taipower that is owned by the state), originally planned in 2001, was postponed to 2006. In 2012, nuclear power accounted for a total 38,890 GWh of electricity generation in Taiwan. [4]
Since 2011, many more Taiwanese began to support halting the plant construction, although the state-owned Taiwan Power Company said it will make electricity price increase by 40%. [20] Some activists speculate that Taiwan Power Co. has seriously underestimated the price tag of nuclear power. [21]
This page is a list of power stations in the Republic of China (Taiwan) that are publicly or privately owned. Non-renewable power stations are those that run on coal, fuel oils, nuclear power, and natural gas, while renewable power stations run on fuel sources such as biomass, geothermal heat, moving water, solar rays, tides, waves and the wind ...
The Taipower Exhibit Center in Southern Taiwan (simplified Chinese: 台电南部展示馆; traditional Chinese: 台電南部展示館; pinyin: Táidiàn Nánbù Zhǎnshì Guǎn) is a science center about Taiwan electricity sector in Hengchun Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan. The center is owned by Taiwan Power Company.
The wind power stations distributes the generated power to Taiwan Power Company based on feed-in tariff agreed in a power purchase agreement for 20 years. [4] The wind farm is jointly owned by Ørsted (35%), JERA Co. (32.5%), Macquarie Capital (25%) and Swancor (7%).