State-run Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) has denied media reports that a proposed new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Keelung would create traffic jams and pose safety risks to one of the country’s busiest ports.
Taipower’s plans to build the new LNG terminal, the country’s fourth, are designed to accommodate the conversion of the nearby 2,000-megawatt oil-fired Hsieh-ho Power Plant into a gas-fired plant.
The utility’s initial proposal to build the terminal off the coast of Keelung’s Waimushan (外木山) was put on hold after critics said that it would endanger a coral reef.
Taipower then issued a revised proposal to move the
Maintaining a stable power supply is one of the most significant challenges the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) face this year, as the nation’s power usage is expected to rise much faster than anticipated. Meanwhile, demand for smart power distribution is rising as more independent suppliers join the power network following a regulatory easing last year.
The ministry in its latest forecast said that Taiwan’s power consumption would climb 2.5 percent annually over the next few years, rather than the 1.84 percent it previously forecast, mainly because of rising demand from industrial users. That does not factor
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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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) has had a tough time for most of the months since he was elected in late September last year.
Since Taiwanese rejected the KMT’s arguments in the four referendums last month, the party had been campaigning hard for another two elections on Sunday: a legislative by-election in Taichung’s second electoral district and a recall vote against independent Legislator Freddie Lim (林昶佐) in his constituency in Taipei’s Zhongzheng (中正) and Wanhua (萬華) districts.
The party was defeated in both.
As for his successes, Chu could point to the recall of former Taiwan Statebuilding