The Ministry of Economic Affairs is adding new electricity sources to stabilize supply after raising its forecast power consumption growth to 2.5 percent annually as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) and other manufacturers are expanding manufacturing facilities.
“We estimate that power usage would increase because of resilient private investment in Taiwan. We expect the growth would be 2.5 percent each year in the following years, higher than we estimated in 2017,” Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) told a media briefing in Taipei yesterday.
The ministry in 2017 forecast that power usage would grow by 1.84 percent each year.
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The Taoyuan City Government has removed controversial signs suggestive of sexual harassment from Lunping Culture Park in the municipality’s Guanyin District (觀音) and plans to replace them with mascots designed by its Department of Hakka Affairs.
One of the signs indicating the way to the park’s restrooms depicted a man peeking over a wall and staring at a woman, while the other depicted a man lifting the hem of a woman’s skirt.
The city government’s Department of Urban Development on Thursday said the signs had been designed in an attempt at humor.
Temporary signs have been put up in their place.
However,
Taipei, Oct. 31 (CNA) The four referendums slated to take place on Dec. 18 are nothing new, Vice President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) said Sunday, while urging voters to vot "no."
The Ministry of Economic Affairs’ latest proposal for a proposed third liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal off the coast of Datan Borough (大潭) in Taoyuan’s Guanyin District (觀音) yesterday failed to make it out of the first environmental impact assessment (EIA) committee meeting at the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA).
The ministry said that if the project cannot go ahead as planned, “13.7 billion kilowatt-hours of power per year, equivalent to 5 million tonnes of coal,” would be missing from Taiwan’s power generation capacity.
That would set Taiwan’s decarbonization targets back, the ministry said, while environmental groups said that the proposal is still
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