Chiayi Plant CY power station

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Chiayi Plant CY power station (台塑嘉義發電廠) is an operating power station of at least 40-megawatts (MW) in Chiayi, Chiayi County, Taiwan. It is also known as Power Plant of Chiayi.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Plant name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Chiayi Plant CY power station	Chiayi, Chiayi County, Chiayi, Taiwan	23.51, 120.37 (approximate)

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Project Details

Table 2: Unit-level details

Unit name	Status	Fuel(s)	Capacity (MW)	Technology	Start year	Retired year
Unit 1	operating	coal - unknown	40	subcritical	1991	2023 (planned)

Table 3: Unit-level ownership and operator details

Unit name	Owner
Unit 1	Formosa Plastics Corp [100.0%]

Project-level captive use details

• Captive industry use (heat or power): chemicals

Background

The Chiayi Plant CY power station (台塑嘉義發電廠) is a 40-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Chiayi County, Taiwan.

In Nan Ya Plastics Corporation's 2021 Sustainability Report (published June 2022), it was reported that the company was planning to convert several of its coal-fired captive power stations (primarily at chemical plants) to gas-fueled power units before 2030. The following coal-to-gas conversions were planned to take place, or had already taken place, between 2021 and 2030:

• 2021: Linkou utility plant (Conversion had already taken place at the time of reporting)
• 2022: "Utility plants in Shulin site and Kung San site [sic]"
• 2023: "Utility plant in Chiayi site [sic]"
• 2030: "Utility plants in Jinxing site [sic]."

In the 2023 Annual Report of Nan Ya Plastics (published in June 2023), there was no mention of the Chiayi power plant's conversion progress, though the Linkou and Shulin plants' coal-to-gas conversions were confirmed in the report as complete.

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