大林

Dalin Power Plant is located in the coastal industrial area of Xiaogang District, Kaohsiung. Historically coal-fired, it has been progressively converted to include gas-fired units and remains an important generation site for southern Taiwan's grid, next to the Port of Kaohsiung.

Dalin's original coal-fired Units 1 and 2 began operating in 1969 and 1970 and were decommissioned in 2012 after more than 40 years of service, with new ultra-supercritical coal units later built on the same site. Dalin is one of the few Taipower plants to have run coal, oil and gas units side by side, and a new roughly 1.4GW gas combined-cycle project is planned for completion around 2027 as the site continues shifting toward gas.

大林 (Natural Gas) currently reports a net generation of 1,719.4 MW across 4 unit(s), against an installed capacity of 2,150 MW (80% utilization).

Most gas units are combined-cycle (CC) plants that can start up and ramp output quickly, making them well suited to balancing intermittent wind and solar output. Taiwan's gas supply relies almost entirely on imported LNG with limited on-site storage days, so grid stability depends heavily on receiving-terminal capacity and shipping schedules.

Since the 2016 energy transition policy began, natural gas has been positioned as the bridge fuel replacing retiring nuclear and coal capacity, and it is now Taiwan's single largest source of generation. Flagship plants include Datan, Tongxiao, and Xingda. The pace of new LNG receiving-terminal construction (such as the "Third Terminal") is the key bottleneck for further expanding gas-fired capacity.