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Energy Diversification & Service Refinement
Natural Gas Supply
CPC promotes natural gas as the essential energy for human progress because of its unique characteristics of high thermal efficiency, low pollution, safety and operational convenience, in keeping with Taiwan government’s policy aims for energy diversification. CPC turned a new leaf in sustainable energy supply domestically with the Yung An LNG receiving terminal in Kaohsiung, the first of its kind in Taiwan, commissioned in 1990, and completed in 1996, enabling a capacity of 4.5 million metric tons per year. It was expanded with phase three of the expansion project from January 1997, in order to meet the surging gas demand from independent power producers (IPP) in northern Taiwan, as well as increasing urban consumption, and the existing terminal area was broadened to include the operation site and a 238-kilometer, 36-inch diameter pipeline, between the Yung An receiving terminal and Tongxiao, bringing Yung An’s capacity to 7.44 million metric tons per year.
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Constructing a business network that increases operation capacity
With the primary purpose of supplying natural gas to the Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), industrial firms and household users in central and northern Taiwan, CPC opened the Taichung LNG receiving terminal on July 13, 2009 close to Taichung Port’s West Pier 13, with a starting capacity of three million metric tons per year, three LNG storage tanks of 160,000 kiloliter each, gasification and related gas supply facilities, and a long-distance 135-kilometer, 36- inch diameter undersea pipeline, connecting Taichung terminal to Datan metering plant via Tongxiao distribution center. Following the completion of the Phase II investment at the Taichung plant, annual production capacity has been increased to over 6 million metric tons, thereby enhancing supply stability and security during the winter northeast monsoon period, and increasing LNG storage tank capacity and overall storage days.
Moreover, a long-planned installation of a 35.8-kilometer, 36-inch diameter onshore gas pipeline from Taichung terminal to the Tongxiao distribution center has already started its gas transmission in 2024, substantially increasing the gas transportation capacity to the center and the north of Taiwan, and in addition, will serve as a backup for the existing 36-inch subsea gas pipeline.
In line with Taiwan government’s energy policies, CPC plans to increase the proportion of natural gas power generation to 50% by 2025. To support this goal, CPC will lease Wharves 11 and 12 and their associated