Taichung Power Plant
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 Location of Taichung Power Plant in Taiwan
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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°ECoordinates: 24°12′46″N 120°28′52″E / 24.21278°N 120.48111°E |
| Status | Operational |
| Commission date | July 1990 (Unit 1-4 gas) March 1991 (Unit 1 coal) 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) August 2005 (Unit 9 coal) June 2006 (Unit 10 coal) |
| Owner(s) | Taipower |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Bituminous coal |
| Secondary fuel | Natural gas |
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| Units operational | 10 X 550 MW (coal) 4 X 70 MW (natural gas) 22 X 2 MW (wind power) |
| Make and model |
General Electric Toshiba |
| Nameplate capacity | 5,824 MW 7,424 MW (Planned, 2030) |
| Annual gross output | 42 TWh |
The Taichung Power Plant (Chinese: 台中發電廠; pinyin: Táizhōng Fādiànchǎng) is a coal-fired power plant in Longjing, Taichung, Taiwan. With an installed coal-fired generation capacity of 5,500 MW, it is the largest coal-fired power station in the world, and also the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide with approximately 40 million tons annually (or about as much as the country of Switzerland as a whole). Together with its gas-fired and wind generation units, the total installed capacity of the plant is 5,824 MW.
During warnings by the scientific community about increasing prevalence of lung cancer in Taiwan in December 2015, it was claimed that Taichung Power Plant, along with the Sixth Naphtha Cracking Plant of the Formosa Plastics Group account for roughly seventy percent of the air pollution in the Central Taiwan region of the country, emitting large quantities of sulfur oxides.
The power plant consists of ten coal-fired units with nominal capacity of 550 MW each. Four original units were commissioned in 1991 and 1992. In 1996–1997, four additional units were added. The eight older units have a total estimated coal requirement of around 12 million tonnes of bituminous and 2.5 million tonnes of sub-bituminous coal a year. In August 2005 and June 2006, 550 MW sub-critical pressure units 9 and 10 were installed on the adjacent land reclaimed by depositing ash.
In addition to ten coal-fired steam turbines, Taichung Power Plant has another four gas turbines and twenty two wind turbines which add another 280 MW and 44 MW additional capacity respectively.
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