Taichung (TaiPower) LNG Terminal

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Taichung (TaiPower) LNG Terminal (台電第五接收站，簡稱五接), also known as No. 5 LNG Terminal, is a proposed LNG terminal in Taichung Harbour, Taiwan.

Location

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Project details

• Owner: TaiPower (Taiwan Power Company)
• Parent company: TaiPower
• Location: Taichung Harbour, Taiwan
• Coordinates: 24.291471, 120.510622 (approximate)
• Type: Import
• Capacity: 3 mtpa
• Status: Proposed
• Start year: 2025
  • Originally 2023

Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day

Background

The terminal appears to have been proposed as early as 2017.

State-owned utility Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) expects to start its first imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in 2023. Taipower’s first imports would mean that state-run CPC Corporation would lose its status as Taiwan’s sole LNG importer. Taipower, which consumes about two-thirds of the LNG imported by the island, first obtained government permission to source the fuel from international markets in 2014. The new fuel supply will feed into Taipower’s planned gas-fired power plant at Taichung, where the first unit is expected to be ready by September 2023.

The project couldn't pass the EIA inspection due to the location of the special LNG jetty is on the key area of a protected marine mammal Taiwan white dolphin.

By January 2023, the EIA inspection is still pending.

As of February 2024, no progress could be heard.