台中

Taichung Power Plant, located on the coast of Longjing District, Taichung City, is Taipower's largest coal-fired plant and has long served as a baseload backbone for the central grid. In recent years, unit dispatch and fuel mix have been adjusted in response to air-quality and energy-transition policy.

Taichung Power Plant's ten 550MW coal units were built in three phases, with Units 1 to 4 entering service in the early 1990s, Units 5 to 8 following soon after, and Units 9 and 10 completed in 2005 and 2006. Between 2006 and 2017 it was the world's largest coal-fired power plant by capacity; the site is now planning new gas units to replace its oldest coal-fired generators amid air-quality and energy-transition pressures.

台中 (Coal) currently reports a net generation of 1,189.3 MW across 10 unit(s), against an installed capacity of 5,500 MW (21.6% utilization).

Coal units are large thermal steam plants that take hours to start up and ramp slowly, making them best suited for steady baseload operation rather than flexible dispatch. Coal itself can be stockpiled for months, giving very stable fuel supply, but per-unit CO2 and air-pollutant emissions (SOx, NOx, particulates) are higher than gas.

Coal was historically Taiwan's largest source of baseload capacity, and the Taichung Power Plant was once among the largest coal-fired plants in the world by capacity. Air-pollution and decarbonization policy has since pushed toward reducing coal's share in favor of gas and renewables, with older units being retired or converted. Until new LNG terminal capacity comes fully online, coal remains an important baseload backstop.

台中#1 is currently listed with the status "友善降載減排". 台中#2 is currently listed with the status "友善降載減排". 台中#3 is currently listed with the status "友善降載減排". 台中#4 is currently listed with the status "環保停機". 台中#5 is currently listed with the status "環保停機檢修". 台中#6 is currently listed with the status "環保停機". 台中#7 is currently listed with the status "友善降載減排". 台中#8 is currently listed with the status "環保停機". 台中#9 is currently listed with the status "環保停機檢修". 台中#10 is currently listed with the status "友善降載減排".