| Taichung Power Plant | |
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| Official name | 台中發電廠 |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Location | Longjing District, Taichung City |
| Coordinates | 24°12′46″N 120°28′52″E / 24.21278°N 120.48111°E |
| Status | Operational |
| Construction began | 1986 |
| Commission date | July 1990 (Unit 1-4 gas) March 1991 (Unit 1 coal)[1] August 1991 (Unit 2 coal) June 1992 (Unit 3 coal) October 1992 (Unit 4 coal) March 1996 (Unit 5 coal) May 1996 (Unit 6 coal) October 1996 (Unit 7 coal) June 1997 (Unit 8 coal)[2] August 2005 (Unit 9 coal) June 2006 (Unit 10 coal)[3] |
| Owners | Taipower |
| Operators | |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Bituminous coal |
| Secondary fuel | Natural gas |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 10 X 550 MW (coal) 4 X 70 MW (natural gas) |
| Make and model | General Electric Toshiba |
| Nameplate capacity | 5,780 MW |
| Annual net output | 27.61 TWh |
| External links | |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
The Taichung Power Plant (Chinese: 台中發電廠; pinyin: Táizhōng Fādiànchǎng) is a coal-fired power plant in Longjing, Taichung, Taiwan (ROC). With an installed coal-fired generation capacity of 5,500 MW, it is the fourth largest coal-fired power station in the world.[4] Together with its gas-fired and wind generation units, the total installed capacity of the plant is 5,824 MW.
In November 2017, the Taichung city government ordered that the Taichung Power Plant reduce its coal consumption by 24% starting in January 2018.[5] The plant is estimated to have been one of the ten most carbon polluting coal-fired power plants in the world in 2018, at 29.9 million tons of carbon dioxide, and relative emissions are estimated at 1.282 g per kWh.[6]
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- ^ "Taiwan's Taichung Power Plant must reduce coal consumption by 24 percent in 2018". Taiwan News. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
- ^ Grant, Don; Zelinka, David; Mitova, Stefania (2021). "Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world's hyper-polluting power plants". Environmental Research Letters. 16 (9): 094022. Bibcode:2021ERL....16i4022G. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac13f1. ISSN 1748-9326.