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Hydroelectricity in Taiwan | Global Ideas

859 views · Published 23 March 2011 · 7:04 · Indexed 5 October 2026

Channel: DW News · 2011 · Science & Technology

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Taiwan is known as a hi-tech country. But the country still relies largely on polluting coal-fired power plants for generating electricity. But things are slowly changing -- in the country's southwest, a hydropower plant has just been connected to the grid. It supplies 13,000 households with clean, environmentally-friendly energy thanks to global carbon emissions trading. It assures operators of the plant further revenues if they sell CO2 certificates in a system similar to carbon offsetting. Airlines, in particular, use these schemes and use the hydropower plant to offset their emissions.

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