It’s the Electricity · Zero-Carbon Future! Taipower held the 2022 Environmental Month Kick-Off Party today (April 4^th) to review its 2021 environmental report card, and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Siemens Energy on hydrogen mixing technology. Taipower's goal is to achieve a demonstration with 5% hybrid hydrogen power generation via gas turbines at the Hsinta power plant by 2025, in order to realize the application of clean hydrogen energy and respond to the national 2050 net-zero emission goal. Taipower also announced for the first time the goal of "net zero power". Taipower officials said the company will gradually promote the implementation of net-zero emissions, using three major directions and eight strategies for power supply, power grid, and electricity demand.

Taipower held the 2022 Taipower Environment Month presentation at Taipower Building this afternoon. With the theme of "Electricity · Zero Carbon Future" this year, Taipower President Wang Yao-ting, together with Environmental Protection Administration Vice President Tsai Hung-teh, Legislator Hung Shen-han, Legislator Tsai Pi-ru, and Taiwan Sustainable Energy Foundation Chairman Chien Yu-hsin, witnessed the results of Taipower's environmental white paper short-term goals and expressed good wishes for the future of net-zero emissions.

• From right: Taipower Independent Director Liu Chih-Wen; Managing Director Chang Tien-Jin; Taipower President Wang Yao-Ting; Taiwan Sustainable Energy Foundation Chairman Chien Yu-hsin; Siemens Energy Taiwan Managing Director John Kilpack; and China Steel Vice President Chen Shou-Dao.

Taipower President Wang Yao-Ting said in his speech that Taipower continues to make efforts to combine power supply and environmental protection. A prominent example is an increase of 15 billion kWh in power generation in 2021 as compared to 2016, all while reducing total air pollution emissions by nearly 60,000 tons (c. 59%), and reducing the net greenhouse gas emission intensity of Taipower’s own thermal power units by 6.3%. This year, Taipower's Environment Month also focuses on carbon reduction and net-zero emissions, echoing Taiwan's 2050 net-zero emissions pathway and strategy announced in March. Today, Taipower took the lead in initiating the cooperation on hydrogen hybrid power generation technology, and will subsequently implement the creation of a zero-carbon energy system, while enhancing the resilience of the energy system and responding to society’s expectations for stable supply.

At the press conference, Taipower reviewed the 2021 environmental report card. In 2021, the air pollution emission intensity of Taipower's thermal power generation units was reduced by 65% as compared to 2016, and total air pollution emissions were reduced by 59% compared to 2016. Taipower officials explained that the company will continue to follow the government's energy policy and implement "increasing gas, reducing coal, going green, and staying non-nuclear" in its power supply structure, and gradually increase the proportion of low-carbon and carbon-free energy generation.

At the event, Taipower President Wang Yao-ting and Siemens Energy Taiwan Managing Director John Kilpack signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on hydrogen blending technology, which will be followed by a hydrogen blending demonstration project at the existing gas unit at Hsinta power plant. Taipower officials pointed out that the gas-fired multiple-cycle generating unit at Hsinta power plant is designed and manufactured by Siemens Energy, and that Taipower hopes to leverage Siemens’ international experience in hydrogen blending technology. This way, the existing one gas turbine unit can be upgraded and rebuilt to introduce low-carbon hydrogen blending capabilities, with the goal of achieving a 5% hydrogen blending demonstration in 2025. Taipower expects another project to be signed for at the end of the year, to demonstrate the ammonia gas mixing technology at the Linkou Thermal Power Plant.

• At right, Taipower President Wang Yao-ting; at left, John Kilpack, Managing Director of Siemens Energy Taiwan.

At the event, Taipower officials also announced for the first time its Zero-Carbon Electricity strategy plan. Taipower will actively cooperate with the National 2050 Net Zero Emission Pathway, and gradually promote the implementation of Net Zero Emissions in three major areas: Electricity supply; power grid; and electricity demand. This will be done through eight strategies: The supply side will be transformed through Structural Transformation (green transformation of energy structure), Fuel Substitution (low carbon energy instead of high carbon), and Carbon Sequestration Technology (carbon capture and storage); while the power grid will promote Decarbonization (grid integration of renewable energy), Smartization (smart grid and smart meters), and Energy Storage; and on the demand side, Taipower will continue to promote Demand Response (smart energy management to guide shifts in electricity consumption ) and Electricity Saving Measures.

• Taipower Vice President Hsu Tsao-hua explains Taipower's net-zero emission strategy plan at the event.

Taipower officials said that this year's Environmental Month will include a wide range of activities. In May, the Electricity Waste Recycling Public Service Event (Kinmen), Microalgae Carbon Sequestration Achievement Tour (Linkou Thermal Power Plant), Carbon Capture Achievement Tour (Taichung Power Plant Carbon Reduction Park), Yung’an Wetland Ecology Promotion Education (Hsinta power plant) and 2022 Taiwan Resilient Grid Forum will be held, one after another. In June, an event called Orchids Return Home will be held on Lanyu. For more details, please refer to Event Information on Taipower's green website. We welcome participation from all walks of life.

Spokesperson: Chang Ting-Li, Dedicated General Manager

Tel: (02) 2366-6271/0936-625-552

Email: u742433@taipower.com.tw

Business Contact: Director Wen Huan-cheng, Environmental Protection Division

Tel: (02) 2366-7200/0928-856-112

Email: u015178@taipower.com.tw