TCC Green Energy Corp (台泥綠能) has inked a deal with Taiyen Green Energy Co (臺鹽綠能) to build a solar farm over a giant fish pond in Chiayi County, with the project scheduled to start producing electricity in July next year.
Taiwan Cement Corp (TCC, 台灣水泥) on Friday said that the NT$1.398 billion (US$48.41 million) deal covers engineering, procurement and construction.
Construction of the nation’s first large fish farm-electricity symbiosis plant above a 60 hectare pond would start in the middle of this month, TCC said.
The solar farm would have a maximum output of 43 megawatts, and be able to generate an average of 54 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, enough to power 16,000 households, TCC said.
Over 20 years, the amount of carbon dioxide emissions avoided as a result of the energy produced by the plant would be equivalent to that absorbed by 1,550 of Taipei’s Daan Forest Parks, it said.
As long as the solar farm does not change the landform, the plan to codevelop fisheries and electricity is in line with government policies and would create a niche for fish farming, green energy and a clean environment, TCC said.
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