Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/26
By: Liao Yu-yang and S.C. Chang

Taipei, March 26 (CNA) Electricity users are set to see a NT$5 (US$ 0.17) rise for every

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kilowatt-hour they consume in the future, given the averaged-out cost of building the fourth nuclear power plant and a government program to increase the use of green energy, Minister of Economic Affairs Minister Shen Jong-chin (沈榮津) said Monday.

He was responding to lawmakers who asked for his estimate of how the NT$283.2 billion construction cost for completing and then mothballing the No. 4 Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei will affect electricity bills for users.

In step with the Democratic Progressive Party government’s plan to achieve its policy goal of a nuclear-free homeland by 2025, Taiwan is also increasing the proportion of recyclable energy to 20 percent of all energy use. The other 50 percent will be supplied by natural gas and 30 percent by coal.    [FULL  STORY]