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What is the main source of electricity in Taiwan?

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A number of recent polls show that people mistakenly believe that nuclear power generation is the main source of electricity. In fact, the main source of electricity is thermal power generation.

A number of recent polls show that people mistakenly believe that nuclear power generation is the main source of electricity. In fact, the main source of electricity is thermal power generation.

Taiwan's power development has been dominated by the early years of hydro power (1945-1953), to the level of hydro and thermal power together (1954-1965), and then by the main thermal power (1966-1974).

After that, Taiwan developed nuclear power generation. In the four years from 1984 to 1987, the proportion of nuclear power generation was slightly higher than thermal power generation. After that, thermal power generation has been Taiwan's main source of electricity.

The thermal power plant has provided key stable power for economic and people's livelihood development for many years. Under the standard that has already complied with environmental protection regulations, it has continuously invested tens of billions of funds to improve environmental protection equipment with remarkable results.

Also, in the season of poor air quality, we will actively cooperate to reduce the power output, and arrange the power generating units set aside for repair work to make a contribution to air quality.