A new wind farm off the coast of Changhua County has started supplying power to the national electricity grid, four years after the project was launched, the Danish company that is building the green energy facility said Thursday.
Power from the Greater Changhua Offshore Wind Farm was delivered for the first time, following the successful installation and energization of the facility’s first batch of offshore wind turbines, Ørsted said in a press release.
“Delivering the first power as scheduled is a major milestone for both Ørsted and Taiwan,” Ørsted Taiwan General Manager Christy Wang (???) was quoted as saying in the press statement.
The electricity was transferred to the wind farm’s onshore substations then fed into the national grid via Taiwan Power Co.’s (Taipower) substation in Changhua, Ørsted said.
When the green energy project is completed, it will have a total of 111 wind turbines, which will produce enough power to supply a million households in Taiwan, according to Ørsted.
The company, which is headquartered in Denmark, was awarded the contract in 2018 to build the first phase of a 900-megawatt (MW) capacity wind farm 35-60 kilometers off the coast of Changhua in central Taiwan.
“Our team has spared no effort to develop and construct the ‘Greater Changhua 1 & 2a’ wind farm and achieve the first power feed within the four-year schedule, thus setting a new benchmark for the industry,” Wang said.
Ørsted Taiwan, however, declined to disclose how much power was being supplied to the Taipower grid.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel