State-run Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) on Tuesday signed an agreement with the Changhua County Government to invest NT$200 billion (US$6.25 billion) in solar and offshore wind farms in central Taiwan.
The agreement was signed by Changhua County Commissioner Wei Ming-ku (魏明谷) and Taipower chairman Chu Wen-chen (朱文成) as part of Taiwan’s efforts to transition to sources of renewable energy and become a nuclear-free nation.
“It would be a great loss to the county if we failed to take advantage of the wind resources in the area,” Wei said during the signing ceremony, which was witnessed by Bureau of Energy Deputy Director Chen Lin-huei (陳玲慧) and Changhua Public Works Department Director Tai Rui-wen (戴瑞文).
Wei said Changhua is ideally positioned to become one of the major contributors to “renewable” energy in Taiwan.
In the first stage of the wind farm project, Taipower is to build a 110 megawatt (MW) facility off the coast of the county, with a capacity of 360 million kilowatt-hours per year, according to the company’s Web site.
It said that the wind farm would go into operation in June 2020, producing enough power to supply 100,000 households per year.
The second phase of the wind farm project is to be built off the county’s Lukang Township (鹿港), with an estimated capacity of 90MW, Chu said.
With regard to the solar farm, he said a ground-based solar photovoltaic system with a power generation capacity of 10MW is to be constructed on 134 hectares of land, becoming the first “renewable energy” center in the nation.
However, Changhua Fishery Association secretary-general Chen Chu-tsan (陳諸讚) expressed reservations about the deal between Taipower and the county government, saying that offshore wind turbines would affect the ecology in the waters off the county and also the fish farms in the area.
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