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Taipower proposes 10-year plan to improve national grid
Courtesy of ICRT
Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) is proposing a ten-year NT$188-billion project to enhance the resilience of the national grid.
Officials say the proposal comes after a nationwide power outage in March exposed the fragility of the "overly centralized" delivery network.
Taipower says the "2022 to 2032 project" will complement existing programmes that include the decentralization and modernization of Taiwan's electricity system.
Acting president Tseng Wen-sheng says the undertaking is the "single biggest investment" that Taipower has ever made to promote grid resilience and the move will also help Taiwan prepare to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
The measures covered in the plan include the expansion of transmission lines to enable UHV users to get electricity directly from power generation units and the establishment of five more substations in two years and a further 28 substations in ten years.
Taipower says the new substations will reduce the loading of transformers in existing substations in order to prevent substation tripping.
The cabinet has endorsed the proposal and it has set aside NT$150 billion in the annual budget request for the 2023 fiscal year for part of the project's implementation.
