Tatan Power Plant

The Tatan Power Plant, Dah-Tarn Power Plant[3] or Ta-Tan Power Plant[4] (Chinese: 大潭發電廠; pinyin: Dàtán Fādiànchǎng) is a gas-fired power plant in Guanyin District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. At the capacity of 4,384 MW, the plant is the world's largest gas turbine combined cycle power plant[3] and Taiwan's largest gas-fired power plant.

Tatan Power Plant
Official name大潭發電廠
CountryRepublic of China
LocationGuanyin, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Coordinates25°1′34″N 121°2′50″E
StatusOperational
Commission date2005
January 2009 (Unit 6)[1]
Owner(s)Taipower
Operator(s)Taipower
Thermal power station
Primary fuelNatural gas
Power generation
Units operational6
Nameplate capacity4,384 MW[2]

Fuel supply

The plant operates with liquefied natural gas supplied by CPC Corporation.[5]

Events

2005

On 16 December 2005, the power plant combined cycle Unit 1 and 2 with a capacity of 435.9 MW each went into commercial operation.[6]

2009

On 31 December 2009, the power plant combined cycle Unit 4 and 5 were converted from low pressure to high pressure and started commercial operation on the day. This conversion increased the plant capacity by 507.4 MW.[1]

2012

In 2012, the power plant carried out the Guidance Plan for Energy Industry Adaptive Action in Response to Climate Change to conduct an analysis on the impact of climate change, a vulnerability check and risk evaluation for the facilities within their domain.[7]

2017

On 15 August 2017 at 4:52 p.m., the six generators of the power plant fully tripped due to operation technical error, disrupting the supply of 4 GW of electricity. During the power supply equipment replacement for a control system of the plant's metering station, the worker did not switch the system from auto mode to manual mode before starting the work, resulting the two gas supply pipe valves closed and stop the supply of liquefied natural gas fuel source for two minutes.[8][9] Electricity rationing was implemented at 6:00 p.m. and ended at 9:40 p.m.[10][11] The outage hit northern half of Taiwan Island, affecting 6.68 million households. Taipower responded by offering one day electricity charge cut from each household bill, which resulted in NT$270 million of revenue loss to the company.[12][13]

Economic Affairs Minister Lee Chih-kung resigned shortly afterwards to take responsibility. Premier Lin Chuan appointed Deputy Minister Shen Jong-chin as acting Minister to replace Lee.[14]

See also

References
  1. "Taiwan power company-Taipower Events". Taipower.com.tw. 2009-06-26. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
  2. "Taiwan power company-Taipower Events". Taipower.com.tw. Archived from the original on 2014-05-17. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
  3. "The Dah-Tarn Power Plant Stage-I No.2 unit begins commercial operation in Taiwan | Power Systems Headquarters | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd". Mhi.co.jp. Archived from the original on 2013-10-06. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
  4. "Taiwan's Tatan power plant to shift to LNG fuel in early July". Gasstrategies.com. 2006-05-05. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
  5. Tsai, Yi-chu; Chen, Cheng-wei; Chang, S.C. (15 August 2017). "Taiwan's power supply system unable to withstand minor errors: expert". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  6. "Taiwan power company-Taipower Events". taipower.com.tw. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  7. "Taiwan Power Company Sustainability Report 2013" (PDF). 20 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2016. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  8. "Mishap Triggers Taiwan Blackout as Power Policies Draw Scrutiny". Bloomberg. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  9. Liao, Yu-yang; Lin, Ko (15 August 2017). "Electricity supply restored around Taiwan: Taipower". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  10. Liao, Yu-yang; Kuo, Chung-han (15 August 2017). "Power outage across Taiwan due to malfunction at power plant". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  11. "LIVE UPDATES: Power outages hit Taiwan". The China Post. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
  12. Huang, Li-yun; Chang, S.C. (16 August 2017). "Taipower to pay NT$270 million in compensation after blackout". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  13. Chen, Wei-han (8 September 2017). "Blackouts due to human error and systematic flaws". Taipei Times. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  14. Lu, Hsin-hui; Huang, Frances (15 August 2017). "National defense system unaffected by power outage". Focus Taiwan. Retrieved 15 August 2017.


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