Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/17
By: Huang Ya-chun and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, Dec. 17 (CNA) State-run oil refiner CPC Co., Taiwan (CPC, 中油) is currently
CPC Chairman Tai Chein (戴謙)
developing new techniques to directly extract geothermal heat from underground and plans to study the feasibility of these techniques on Mt. Datun, in suburban Taipei, next year, the company’s new head has said.
“Technology can leap,” said CPC Chairman Tai Chein (戴謙), who assumed the office last month, in an interview with CNA when asked about the company’s response to the government’s nuclear-free homeland policy, which aims to close all Taiwan’s nuclear power plants by 2025.
Tai mentioned CPC’s failed terrestrial heat exploration program in Yilan County, where the company drilled its first geothermal heat well in 1976.
Although that program led to the inauguration of Taiwan’s first terrestrial heat-propelled power plant in 1981, inefficiency resulted in the closure of the plant in 1993.
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