Diversified Waste Treatment Plan Launched to Raise Capacity for Waste Treatment

摘要

Currently Taiwan has 24 large-scale waste incineration plants in operation, for which the electricity production, sales, sales rate, and average amount of electricity generated per hour all reached a record high in 2016. The total of such electricity generated in 2016 reached 3.245 billion kWh (28 million kWh higher than in 2015) with a total of NT$4.63 billion generated from electricity sales. In addition to the generation of renewable energy, the Executive Yuan has also formulated the Diversified Waste Treatment Plan with a total of NT$15.342 billion to be invested in improving waste treatment technology and capacity.