The Mailiao Power Plant () is a coal-fired power plant in Formosa Mai-Liao Industrial Park, Mailiao Township,

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. With a total installed capacity of 4,200 MW, the plant is Taiwan's third largest coal-fired power plant after Taichung Power Plant and

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History

The groundbreaking ceremony for the power plant construction was held on 12 December 1996. Invited to the ceremony were Vice Premier

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, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Chih-kang and

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. Commissioned in June 1999 for its first two units, the power plant is the first independent power producer power plant after

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ended the electricity supply monopoly in Taiwan in 1994.

Architecture

The power plant is located on a 87 hectares of area made of

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Ownership

The power plant is owned by the

Mai-Liao Power Corporation The Mai-Liao Power Corporation (MPC; ) is an independent power producer company in Taiwan. The total electricity installed capacity of the company is 1,800 MW and is produced using thermal power. The company is the subsidiary of Formosa Plasti ...

(MPC) and Formosa Petrochemical Corporation (FPCC).

Generation units

The power plant consists of five 600 MW pulverized coal-fired units owned by the MPC and two 600 MW pulverized coal-fired co-generation units owned by the FPCC. The plant is designed for base load service with the capability for daily startup and shutdown operation per instructions from

's dispatcher center.

Components

The coal handling system of the power plant has a truck unloading station capacity of 600 tonnes/hour and its flexible sidewall conveyor capacity of 800 tonnes/hour. It gets its coal directly from cargo ships docking at its Mai-Liao Industrial Port, next to the power plant. The coal is stored in coal domes in which each dome is 120 meter in diameter, 60 meter in height and 180,000 tons in capacity. The cooling system for the plant comes directly from the sea water with a total usage amount of 200,000 tons per day.

Events

2012

On 20 June 2012 at 11:55 am, the power plant tripped during the Tropical Storm Talim. This caused the shut down of 54 out of 66 units of the Yunlin petrochemical complex.

2016

On 1 August 2016, a generating unit of the power plant broke down, disrupting the supply of power.

2017

On 7 October 2017, the no. 1 generation unit of the power plant was shut down due to pipe rupture, causing 600 MW of power loss.

References

{{Power plants of Taiwan 1999 establishments in Taiwan Buildings and structures in Yunlin County Coal-fired power stations in Taiwan Energy infrastructure completed in 1999