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Hsinta Power Plant

Yongan District, Taiwan

The 81st largest power station in the world

4.33 GW · Capacity

The Hsinta Power Plant or Hsing-ta Power Plant is a coal-fired power plant in Yong'an District and Qieding District in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. With a total installed capacity of 4,326 MW, the plant is Taiwan's second largest coal-fired power plant after the 5,500 MW Taichung Power Plant (coal-generated power only). It is the oldest coal-fired power plant in Taiwan as of 2019 and was built 37 years ago without any prior air quality impact evaluation., making it notorious for polluting air quality in southern Taiwan for decades.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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