Flip your imagination about power plant! Taipower has, for the first time, opened up an opportunity for international design competition with regard to the conceptual design of a power plant and offered a reward of nearly NT$ 10 million to seek designs of a new generation power plant. Taipower said that the Hsinta Power Plant located in Yong-an District of Kaohsiung City is now preparing for a project to promote the upgrading and reconstruction of natural gas-fired generators at its second site for the development of clean energy. In order to maintain the mutualism between the power plant and the surrounding salt fields, wetland ecosystems and historical buildings, Taipower is seeking innovative power plant designs and landscape planning projects which pivot on ecology and will transform Hsinta Power Plant into a new generation power plant with features of both aesthetics and eco-environmental protection. 

    Taipower conducted an information meeting, presided by Taipower Chairman Zhu Wen-cheng, about the design competition in Taipei International Convention Center this afternoon (20171026). Taipower pointed out that Hsinta Power Plant was built in 1970s and is currently equipped with four coal-fired generators and five gas-fired combined cycle generators with an installed capacity of about 432.6 KW. In order to enhance the efficiency of generators' power generation and environmental protection, Hsinta Power Plant is planning for the upgrading and reconstruction of its gas-fired generators and for replacing its old generators with new ones step by step. It is planning to install three gas-fired generators at the second site with the aim to reach an installed capacity of 390 KW.

    Taipower explained that the area of the target for this design competition is about 130 hectares, in which an area of about 40 hectares in the south is to be used for ‘Yong-an Saline Wetland' for the conservation for local wetlands. Works for competition are expected to connect with local characteristics by preserving wetlands and heritages as well as incorporating ecological conservation and landscape harmony into the overall design so as to create a plant site which maintains the mutualism between power generation and the nature.