Shen'ao power station is a 1,600 MW coal power station in New Taipei, Taiwan. It is operated by Taiwan Power Co [100%]. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2.0 million homes (estimated). It ranks #16 of 60 Taiwan power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1960, it is around 66 years old — an older, legacy facility. 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 GEM_coa_shenao_taiwa.
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: GEM GCPT; fuel: GEM GCPT
At 1,600 MW, Shen'ao power station is well above the median coal plant in Taiwan (324 MW). Technically it is described as subcritical. 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.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Taiwan Power Co [100%].
This coal plant burns coal to raise high-pressure steam that spins a turbine-generator. It sits in a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 25.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
For a plant’s outdoor hardware — heat-recovery steam generators (HRSG), expansion joints, valves, flanges and their insulation — the local climate sets how fast unprotected steel and coatings degrade. This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
Higher environmental severity is exactly where protective removable insulation pays back most: a sheltered micro-climate slows corrosion, UV and thermal-cycling damage and extends outdoor hardware service life. This is an indicative site-climate context — not a condition assessment of any specific plant or operator.
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
The #6 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 25.1269, 121.8154 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Shen'ao power station is a 1,600 MW coal power plant in New Taipei, Taiwan, commissioned in 1960.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 2,002,285 homes (estimated).
Shen'ao power station is operated by Taiwan Power Co [100%].
