Hsinta Power Plant

Power plant in Qieding and Yong'an, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

22°51′23″N 120°11′49″E / 22.85639°N 120.19694°E / 22.85639; 120.19694StatusOperationalConstruction began1978Commission dateSeptember 1982 (Unit 1)
December 1983 (Unit 2)
June 1985 (Unit 3)
April 1986 (Unit 4)^[1]Owner(s)TaipowerOperator(s)TaipowerThermal power station Primary fuelCoalPower generation Units operational4 (coal)Nameplate capacity4,326 MWExternal linksCommonsRelated media on Commons

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Hsinta Power Plant

Traditional Chinese

興達發電廠

Simplified Chinese

兴达发电厂

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Xìngdá Fādiànchǎng
Wade–Giles	Hsing4-ta2 Fa1-tien4-ch'ang3
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Heng-ta̍t Hoat-tiān-chhiúⁿ

The Hsinta Power Plant or Hsing-ta Power Plant^[2] (Chinese: 興達發電廠) is a coal-fired power plant in Yong'an District and Qieding District in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.^[3]^[4] With a total installed capacity of 4,326 MW,^[5] the plant is Taiwan's second largest coal-fired power plant after the 5,500 MW Taichung Power Plant (coal-generated power only).

It is the oldest coal-fired power plant in Taiwan as of 2019 and was built 37 years ago without any prior air quality impact evaluation.,^[6] making it notorious for polluting air quality in southern Taiwan for decades.^[6]

Components

The coal yards of the power plant was designed as an indoor type to mitigate local environment impacts. It consists of four coal domes with 170,000 tonnes of storage capacity each, which enables the continuous supply for all of the generation units for 50 days of operation.^[7]

The coal handling system of the power plant consists of stacker, reclaimer and two conveyor belts. The capacity of the stacker is 4,000 tonnes/hour and reclaimer is 2,000 tonnes/hour. The first conveyor belt has a total length of 4.8 km with a capacity of 4,000 tonnes/hour, handling between the coal domes and barge, and the second conveyor belt has a total length of 5.2 km with a capacity of 2,000 tonnes/hour, handling between the coal dome and wharf.^[8]

Events

4 March 2010

Generators in four units of the plant tripped at 8:18 a.m following the 2010 Kaohsiung earthquakes.^[9]

13 May 2021

Three of four generators are tripped due to unknown reason, causing a government-announced planned series rotating power outages around Taipei, New Taipei City, Yilan County, and Taoyuan.[1]

2 March 2022

Equipment failures at the plant led connection outages in the island's southern power grid, causing widespread power outages in southern Taiwan and parts of northern and central Taiwan.^[10]^[11]

Transportation

Hsinta Power Plant is accessible West from Luzhu Station of Taiwan Railways.

References

^ "Bureau of Energy, Ministry of Economic Affairs, R.O.C. - Energy Statistical annual Reports". Archived from the original on 19 November 2017. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
^ "Hsinta (Hsing-ta) Coal Power Plant Taiwan - GEO". Globalenergyobservatory.org. 26 December 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
^ "Hsinta Power Station, Taiwan Power Company". Ftis.org.tw. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
^ "Hsinta Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant, Kaohsiung". Power Technology. 15 June 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
^ https://web.archive.org/web/20131015111609/http://www.brain-c-jcoal.info/news_images/JapanTaiwanCCTWorkshop2009_05.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2013. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ ^a ^b Public Television Service Foundation (25 March 2019). "興達電廠脫胎記 [Hsinta Power Plant will be still there.]". 我們的島 [Our island] (in Chinese). Retrieved 31 October 2019.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "TPC Hsinta Indoor Coal Handling System | KINGTECH Engineering". Kingtechengineer.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
^ "Taiwan power company-Taipower Events". Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
^ News, Taiwan (3 March 2022). "Blackouts reported across Taiwan | Taiwan News | 2022-03-03 09:43:00". Taiwan News. Retrieved 3 March 2022. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
^ "Taiwan hit by widespread power outages". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 3 March 2022.

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