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Aligning with Policy, Advancing Development Natural Gas Supply CPC promotes natural gas as a key energy source for human progress due to its high efficiency, low emissions, safety, and ease of use, in line with the government’s energy diversification policy. In 1990, CPC commissioned Taiwan’s first LNG receiving terminal in Yung An, Kaohsiung, marking a new chapter in the nation’s clean energy supply. Since then, to meet rising domestic demand and to support national energy policy, CPC has continued to expand its LNG receiving and storage capacity, and transmission infrastructure. Among these expansions, the second phase of the Yung An Receiving Terminal was completed in December 1996, boosting its processing capacity to 4.5 million metric tons per year. To meet rising demand from Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and urban gas users in northern Taiwan, CPC began third-phase expansion in January 1997. This phase included terminal upgrades and a milestone infrastructure project: the installation of a 36-inch, 238-kilometer subsea pipeline from Yung An to Tongxiao, completed in December 2002. The fourth-phase expansion, finished in December 2005, added a second LNG jetty, a northern breakwater, an extension of the southern breakwater, and expanded distribution stations. The fifth-phase expansion, focused on boosting regasification capacity, was mechanically completed in October 2024, raising the terminal’s annual operational capacity to 12 million metric tons. Keep expanding operational capabilities to meet domestic demand With the primary purpose of supplying natural gas to Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), industry and households in central and northern Taiwan, CPC developed Taichung LNG receiving terminal on July 13, 2009, close to Taichung Port’s West Wharf 13, with an annual capacity of three million metric tons, including three LNG storage tanks of 160,000 kiloliter each, gasification and related gas supply facilities, and a long-distance, 135-kilometer, 36-inch diameter subsea pipeline, connecting Taichung terminal and Datan metering plant via Tongxiao distribution center. Following the completion of Phase II investment at 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 Tongxiao distribution center has already started its gas transmission in 2024, substantially increasing the gas transportation capacity to the central and northern Taiwan. In addition, it will serve as a backup for the existing 36-inch subsea gas pipeline. Natural gas transmission and distribution system comprises 2,278 kilometer onshore main line of gas pipeline 18