Linkou is a 300 MW gas power station in New Taipei, Taiwan. It ranks #31 of 60 Taiwan power plants by installed capacity. In context, gas supplies about 48.8% 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 WRI1000373.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI GPPD; fuel: WRI GPPD
At 300 MW, Linkou is below the median gas plant in Taiwan (800 MW). Technically it is described as Steam. Its current lifecycle status is “Announced” — so it is not yet, or no longer, generating at full output. Gas plants burn natural gas either in open-cycle turbines for fast peaking, or in combined-cycle units that recover exhaust heat in an HRSG to reach roughly 55–62% efficiency — the cleanest-burning fossil option.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
The #13 largest gas power plant of 16 in Taiwan by capacity.
Taiwan has 16 gas power plants in this dataset, together about 20,166 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 25.1195, 121.299 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Linkou is a 300 MW gas power plant in New Taipei, Taiwan, Announced 1998.
