Taipei Port power station
{{#badges:CoalSwarm|Navbar-Taiwancoal}}Taipei Port power station is a proposed 6,000-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Taiwan.
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Location
The map below shows the location of Taipei Port, in Pali District of New Taipei City. The project would reclaim 250 hectares of land in the harbor area to house the power station, as well as causeways for transport and for storage of coal stocks.[1]
Background
A 2,000 MW power station at Taipei Port was first proposed in 2007, but Taipower ultimately decided the project was too costly.[1]
In May 2014 talk of the project was revived, as a possibility if an extension on the operating life of Taipower's First and Second Nuclear Power Plants was denied. The power station would consist of six supercritical coal-fired power plant units with an installed capacity of 6000 MW -- an energy surplus of 3200 MW, if the 2800 MW of the existing nuclear plants are taken off-line. Construction is estimated at 13 to 14 years, and would create an additional 35 million tons of carbon emissions per year once the six units are running.[1]
However, Taipower quickly denied reports it was reviving plans for a coal plant at Taipei Port, saying the project was only internal research, and that the coal plant would not serve as an alternative to the proposed Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant (nuclear IV plant), which had been stopped by public opposition.[2]
With no developments on the project since discussion of its possibility in May 2014 - which Taipower denied - plans appear to be deferred or abandoned.
Project Details
- Sponsor: Taipower
- Parent company: Government of Taiwan
- Location: Taipei, Taiwan
- Coordinates: 25.161561, 121.352142 (approximate)
- Status: Cancelled
- Gross Capacity: 6,000 MW (Units 1-6: 1,000 MW)
- Type: Supercritical
- Projected in service:
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Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Thermal power plant at Taipei Port eyed to avoid power shortages," Taiwan News, 2014-05-21
- ↑ "台电否认台北港已建成燃煤电厂黄中秋：近期将推出四核无核替代计划," cnYES 鉅亨網, 2014/05/20
