• The Taiwan Strait is an excellent corridor for wind farms. Giant wind turbines generate electricity against the wind. The weather vane and anemometer that can adjust the operation of the wind turbine are located on top of the nacelle (One of Taipower's onshore wind turbines at the Changhua Coastal Dual Green Energy Power Plant.)

The development of Taiwan's green energy has reached a milestone! Since 2001, Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) has actively developed onshore wind power. Over the past twenty years, the accumulative amount of electricity generated has exceeded 10,000GWh as of today (18th). This achievement is due to the good conditions of Taiwan's wind farms. Additionally, it depends on the long-term efforts of Taipower's staff members who have overcome various challenges of constructing and maintaining wind turbines ensuring their stable operations. In the future, Taipower hopes to extend this achievement from the land to the sea, actively promoting the Company's offshore wind power project, gradually realizing the new prospect of wind power.

Taipower stated that since erecting its first onshore wind turbine on Chuton Island in the Penghu archipelago in 2001, Taipower has built 168 onshore wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 297.04MW. The locations for these wind turbines start from Shimen Distrcit, New Taipei City in the north to Hengchun in the south. The wind turbines can be found all along the west coast and the outlying islands of Penghu and Kinmen. The electricity generated by these wind turbines reached an accumulative amount of 5,000GWh in April, 2015. In recent years, Taipower has integrated big data techniques to fortify the maintenance and operation of these wind turbines, enhancing the stability of their electricity generation. For example, the annual amount of electricity generated by onshore wind power last year (2021) reached 672GWh, accounting for approximately 58.7% of total amount of electricity generated by onshore wind power in Taiwan. The amount of electricity generated can supply up to nearly 170,000 households for one year. Moreover, Taipower reached a milestone by generating an accumulative total of 10,000GWh of electricity today up to today (18th).

Furthermore, Taipower stated that as the locations of onshore wind turbines are scattered, are often along the coast, and no lift was installed for wind turbines in the early days, repairmen often had to climb up the 60 or 70-meter steel wind towers by themselves. Additionally, it was often hot, shaky, unsteady, and there were other unfavorable conditions, which made the inspection and maintenance of wind turbines in the early days extra difficult. In recent years, with the maturity of maintenance techniques, the maintenance work has been integrated with remote centralized monitoring and management as well as the application of a big data technique which collects operational data over a long time to predict any possible abnormality in the equipment in the future. Additionally, this mega data helps in the arrangement, inspection and repairs or purchases and renewal, maximizing the normal operating lifespan of the equipment and minimizing the deployment of maintenance manpower to elevate the availability of wind turbines and the amount of electricity generated by them.

• During high-elevation operations inside the wind turbines, repairmen often have to climb up the 60 or 70-meter steel wind towers by themselves. Therefore, they have to be well-equipped for safety.

Taipower pointed out that around one quarter of its onshore wind turbines have been running for over 15 years. To maximize wind farm capacity and wind turbine efficiency, Taipower is planning programs for the sustainable use of wind farms in the future. The Company will take both the conditions of its wind farms locations and wind turbine situations into consideration, and plan the integration and use of large and small wind turbines to develop a new model of sustainable thinking directed at meeting local needs of wind farms to exist and prosper with the environment.

Taipower indicated that in addition to continuing to develop onshore wind power, it expanded its new wind farms in the offshore area. The connection of 21 wind turbines for the Taipower Offshore Wind Farm Phase 1 Project were completed, and the Phase 2 Project is now being launched at a . It is expected to achieve a capacity goal of generating 370MW of electricity through onshore wind power and 403.7MW of electricity through offshore wind power by 2025. Taipower will continue to conform to the government's energy transformation policy, actively developing clean and renewable energy to move toward the goal of low-carbon power.

Spokesperson: Ting-Shu Chang, Professional General Manager

Tel No.: (02)2366-6271/0936-625-552

Email: u742433@taipower.com.tw

Point of Contact: Ying-Sheng Tsai, Director of Renewable Energy Office

Tel No.: (02)2366-8650/0988-980-032

Email: u7446723@taipower.com.tw