Taiwan News
Date: 2018/07/23
By: Abby Huang
Taiwan’s daily electricity consumption in May repeatedly hit record highs. Could
Photo Credit: Reuters / TPG
power be in short supply this summer? Who is sucking up all the power, and could new initiatives encourage them to cough it back up?
On July 4, after nearly 40 years of controversy and debate, the first batch of nuclear fuel rods was removed from Nuclear Power Plant No.4 (NPP4) and shipped to the United States for safe storage. The remaining fuel rods are all expected to be shipped abroad in smaller batches by 2020. This marked the decommissioning of NPP4, a move which raised some doubts around Taiwan.
Former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) expressed his belief that this was a big mistake. The American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei also showed concern in its Taiwan White Paper, emphasizing the importance of an entity like NPP4 in case of emergency.
With the loss of NPP4, could Taiwan find itself in a power shortage era in the near future? [FULL STORY]
