Hsinta (coal) is a 3,525.95 MW coal power station in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It ranks #5 of 60 Taiwan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1982, it is around 44 years old — long-established. In context, coal supplies about 36.3% of Taiwan's electricity; the national grid averages 633 gCO₂/kWh (13.4% low-carbon) (2025).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1000367.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The public capacity above is the current source-record value. A 2026 tracker candidate lists 1,550 MW for Hsinta power station, but it is not used as the public primary value until scope is verified (unit vs operating vs installed/project total).
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM · 2026 · L100000103539; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 3,525.95 MW, Hsinta (coal) is well above the median coal plant in Taiwan (324 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. Its current lifecycle status is “Mothballed” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Coal plants burn pulverised coal to raise high-pressure steam for a turbine; they run as baseload but are the most carbon-intensive mainstream source and the first targeted for retirement or efficiency retrofits.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #4 largest coal power plant of 19 in Taiwan by capacity.
Taiwan has 19 coal power plants in this dataset, together about 26,070 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 22.8558, 120.1972 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Hsinta (coal) is a 3,525.95 MW coal power plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, commissioned in 1982.
