{"id":17444,"date":"2026-02-18T19:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/?p=17444"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:22:28","slug":"taipowers-taichung-hydropower-units-gain-international-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/taipowers-taichung-hydropower-units-gain-international-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Taipower\u2019s Taichung hydropower units gain international certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Taipower\u2019s hydropower units on the Dajia River have received certification from the Hydropower Sustainability Alliance and the Low Impact Hydropower Institute, becoming Taiwan\u2019s first to qualify for renewable energy certificates.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>The Ministry of Economic Affairs expanded renewable energy rules in 2024 to include water storage and dam projects, allowing reservoir-based hydropower\u2014previously excluded over environmental concerns\u2014to be sold as green electricity. The move supports rising corporate demand and participation in the RE100 program.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Taipower said hydropower costs about US$0.083 per kWh, significantly lower than the typical green electricity rate of about US$0.17\u20130.20 per kWh for corporate buyers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>The certified system spans five generating units from Techi Reservoir to Maan Dam, with a combined downstream capacity of 133,500 kW and annual output exceeding 400 million kWh. The facility also integrates solar panels and includes ecological measures such as fish migration equipment and AI-based monitoring.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipower\u2019s hydropower units on the Dajia River have received certification from the Hydropower Sustainability Alliance and the Low Impact Hydropower Institute, becoming Taiwan\u2019s first to qualify for renewable energy certificates.&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17460,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17444\/revisions\/17460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}