Each year, the company sets up its annual performance goals to upgrade its management efficiency. As a result, every performance index has seen continuous improvement. In 2010, the major performance achievements were:

• The campaign on greenhouse gas reduction had remarkable accomplishments: The verification of the voluntary reduction plan ISO 14064-2 was completed and the accumulated amount of actual reduction reached 6.09 million tons of CO 2 e.

• The company completed the design plan for 200 To-Be business processes, formulated a future cost-collector structure and an ERP system organization structure to establish a business blueprint for phase I ERP system structure.

• The Taipower 2010 Sustainability Report was awarded a silver medal in the category of service in the 2010 Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Report Awards held by Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy.

• The company complied with the government’s energy conservation and carbon reduction policy by assisting public offices and schools with replacing old lights with new energy-saving lighting equipment. The amount of power saved reached about 2.0 million KWh and CO 2 reduction about 1,370 tons.

• The SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index) was reduced to 17.663 min./customer． year and the SAIFI (System Average Interruption Frequency Index) was reduced to 0.196 freq./ customer．year. These were the lowest recorded numbers in Taipower’s history.

• The line loss of the whole system was 4.66%, a decrease of 0.20% as compared with the previous year’s rate of 4.86%.

• Taipower received three awards in the “10th Public Construction Golden Awards” held by the Public Construction Commission:

  (1) The Kaokung-Wuchia-Kaohsiung 345 KV underground cable turnkey project received an outstanding award in the civil engineering category.

  (2) Annan-Fuchen 161 KV Underground Cable Turnkey Project received an outstanding award in the civil engineering category.

  (3) Shewan Primary Distribution Substation Turnkey Project received an outstanding award in facilities category.

• Asian Power magazine held the “6th Annual Asian Power Awards, 2010” in Singapore. Taipower’s “345 KV transmission line fault location reporting system”, which reduced 5,268 km of a patrol distance, equivalent to about 4 times the length of Taiwan’s coastline, was awarded a gold medal as the “Best Asian Transmission and Distribution Project of the Year”, and the “Second Nuclear Power Plant Installing a 360 Degree Work Platform over Reactors”, which reduced 2.5 days in reactor outage work, increased power generation by 60 million KWh and cut fossil fuel costs by about US$4.8 million, was awarded a gold medal as the “Best Operation and Maintenance Project”.

• The Tachiachi Kukuan Branch Retrofit Project of 38 MW, was completed.

• The installation of the 6 combined-cycle units, with a total capacity of 4,384 MW, at the Tatan Thermal Power Plant was completed. It has become the world’s largest combined-cycle power plant.

• All of the nuclear units demonstrated remarkable achievements. The average capacity factor reached 92.32% and the power supply amounted to 40,028 million KWh. Both were the highest records in Taipower’s history. The nuclear units have been breaking records in power supply for the past 4 consecutive years. The effect of CO 2 reduction reached 34 million tons (if calculated by CO 2 emissions from a supercritical coal-fired unit at 0.839 kg/KWh).

• There were no scram occurrences in the 6 nuclear units, the best performance in Taipower’s history. Before its shutdown for the 19th refueling outage, the Third Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 operated in full fuel cycle continuously, safely and stably for 539 days. This was the second time that the unit operated safely in a full fuel cycle.

• The duration of the 21st refueling outage of the Second Nuclear Power Plant Unit 2 was 24.48 days, the shortest outage duration of nuclear units in Taipower’s history. It also set a record for zero-violations, zero industrial safety incidents, and zero abnormalities.