Taiwan’s power generation is expected to be adequate until 2032, Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) said today, seeking to ease public concerns that the closure of Ma-anshan Nuclear Power Plant’s No. 2 reactor unit on May 17 would affect energy prices.
Cho spoke to media before attending a meeting at the Legislative Yuan today, answering questions about whether the decommissioning of the nuclear reactor in Pingtung County, which would effectively reduce the nation’s nuclear power production to zero, would impact residential electricity rates.
Estimates from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Taiwan Power Co show that closing the nuclear reactor would drop the current energy reserve margin from 15 percent to about 12 percent, he said.
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Based on an assessment of peak energy demand, the reserve margin is expected to remain at about 10 percent during the day and 7 percent at night, which would be within safe limits, Cho said.
This year, new power generation units at the Hsinta (興達), Sun Ba (森霸) and Datan (大潭) power plants would successively come online, compensating for the power generation lost from the decommissioning of Ma-anshan’s No. 2 reactor, he said.
The government would continue to advance the second phase of the energy transition plan laid out by President William Lai (賴清德), developing diverse green energy, energy conservation, energy storage and grid resilience solutions, the premier said.
Power generation would be sufficient to meet demand at least until 2032, including for sectors in high-tech and artificial intelligence development, Cho said, urging the public to remain at ease.
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