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Ørsted delivers first power

from Greater Changhua 1 &

2a in Taiwan

TAIWAN ØRSTED has delivered its first electricity from Construction work began at Greater Chang-
the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a Offshore Wind hua 1 & 2a in Taiwan in 2021.
Farm in Taiwan. Elsewhere in Taiwan, Ørsted was awarded the
The 900-MW offshore project is the largest in right to build the 920 MW Greater Changhua
Taiwan and is Ørsted’s first large-scale offshore 2b & 4 Offshore Wind Farm in June 2018 and
wind farm in the Asia-Pacific region, the com- signed a corporate power purchase agreement
pany said in a statement. with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
The wind farm is the first of many that Taiwan Company Limited (TSMC) in July 2020.
needs to provide the green energy much needed The Greater Changhua 2b & 4 Offshore Wind
by export industries and by Taiwan to achieve its Farm will become operational in 2025 and fully
net-zero goal. commissioned in 2026, subject to grid availabil-
The first delivery of power represented the ity and Ørsted’s final investment decision.
installation and energisation of the first batch In total, Ørsted is developing four offshore
of Siemens Gamesa 8.0-167 DD offshore wind wind sites within the Greater Changhua site off
turbines. Taiwan. With a potential 2.4GW of capacity.
The electricity was transferred to Ørsted’s Ørsted has also started the environmen-
onshore substations via array cables, offshore tal impact assessments of the Xu Feng 1, 2 and
substations, and export cables, before being fed 3 projects, which are located 37-62 km off the
into the national grid via Taipower’s substation. coast of Changhua County with a total potential
A total of 111 turbines will be installed at capacity of 2.1GW, and the Wo Neng 1 and 2 off-
Changhua 1 & 2a, which will produce enough shore wind projects, which are located 42 km off
power to cover the power consumption of 1mn the coast of Taichung with a potential capacity
Taiwanese households. of 3GW.
“Delivering the first power as scheduled is a Ørsted will utilise the Xu Feng and Wo Neng
major milestone for both Ørsted and Taiwan. projects and the 570-MW Greater Changhua 3
Since the 900 MW capacity was first awarded project that has already obtained EIA approval
to Ørsted in April 2018 through the grid allo- to take an active role within the coming zonal
cation process, our team has spared no efforts development.
to develop and construct Greater Changhua 1 & It is also the co-owner of Taiwan’s first com-
2a and achieve first power only four years later,” mercial-scale offshore wind project, Formosa 1,
said Christy Wang, general manager of Ørsted which will be extended from its current 8-MW
Taiwan. capacity to 128 MW in 2019. ™

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