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Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

that are publicly or privately owned. Non-renewable

Non-renewable resource

A non-renewable resource is a natural resource which cannot be produced, grown, generated, or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate, once depleted there is no more available for future needs. Also considered non-renewable are resources that are consumed much faster than nature...

power stations are those that run on coal

Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...

, fuel oil

Fuel oil

Fuel oil is a fraction obtained from petroleum distillation, either as a distillate or a residue. Broadly speaking, fuel oil is any liquid petroleum product that is burned in a furnace or boiler for the generation of heat or used in an engine for the generation of power, except oils having a flash...

s, nuclear power

Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13–14% of the world's electricity, with the U.S., France, and Japan together accounting for about 50% of nuclear generated electricity...

, and natural gas

Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, typically with 0–20% higher hydrocarbons . It is found associated with other hydrocarbon fuel, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is an important fuel source and a major feedstock for fertilizers.Most natural...

, while renewable

Renewable resource

A renewable resource is a natural resource with the ability of being replaced through biological or other natural processes and replenished with the passage of time...

power stations run on fuel sources such as biomass

Biomass

Biomass, as a renewable energy source, is biological material from living, or recently living organisms. As an energy source, biomass can either be used directly, or converted into other energy products such as biofuel....

, geothermal heat

Geothermal power

Geothermal energy is thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth. Thermal energy is the energy that determines the temperature of matter. Earth's geothermal energy originates from the original formation of the planet and from radioactive decay of minerals...

, moving water

Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is the term referring to electricity generated by hydropower; the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. It is the most widely used form of renewable energy...

, solar rays

Solar power

Solar energy, radiant light and heat from the sun, has been harnessed by humans since ancient times using a range of ever-evolving technologies. Solar radiation, along with secondary solar-powered resources such as wind and wave power, hydroelectricity and biomass, account for most of the available...

, tides

Tidal power

Tidal power, also called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into useful forms of power - mainly electricity....

, waves

Wave power

Wave power is the transport of energy by ocean surface waves, and the capture of that energy to do useful work — for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or the pumping of water...

and the wind

Wind power

Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make electricity, windmills for mechanical power, windpumps for water pumping or drainage, or sails to propel ships....

Coal

Station	Capacity (MW)	Community	Coordinates	Status
Hsiheo Power Plant	2,000			Operational
Hsinta Power Plant	4,326			Operational
Mailiao Power Plant	1,800			Operational
Nanpu Power Plant	1,118			Operational
Taichung Power Plant Taichung Power Plant The Taichung Power Plant is a large coal-fired power plant in Taiwan. With an installed capacity of 5,780 MW, it is the largest coal-fired power station in the world, and also the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide....	5,780	Taichung Taichung -Demographics:Taichung’s population was an estimated 1,040,725 in August 2006. There are slightly more females in the city than males.24.32% of residents are children, while 16.63% are young people, 52.68% are middle-age, and 6.73% are elderly....	24°12′46"N 120°28′52"E	Operational
Talin Power Plant	2,400			Operational
Tungshiao Power Plant	1,806			Operational

Fuel oil

Station	Capacity (MW)	Fuel class	Community	Coordinates	Status
Tashan Power	64,000 watts		Shuitou village of Jincheng town, Kinmen island		Operational 1999

Natural gas

Station	Capacity (MW)	Coal type	Community	Coordinates	Status
Hoping Power Plant	1,297				Operational
Tatan Power Plant	4,384				Operational

Nuclear

Station	Capacity (MW)	Community	Coordinates	Status
Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant	1,272	Jinshan		Operational
Kuosheng Nuclear Power Plant	1,970	Kuosheng	25°12′10"N 121°39′45"E	Operational
Maanshan Nuclear Power Plant	1,902	Maanshan	21°57′30"N 120°45′5"E	Operational
Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant The Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant , located in Gongliao Township, is Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant, consisting of two ABWRs each of 1,350 MWe...	2,700	Lugmen	25°2′19"N 121°55′27"E	Under construction

Hydroelectric

Station	Capacity (MW)	Coordinates	Status
Minghu PS	1,000		Operational
Mingtan Dam Mingtan Dam The Mingtan Dam spans the Shuili River about downstream from the outlet of Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan. About high, the dam was completed in 1990. It forms Minghu Reservoir which is the lower reservoir for the Minghu Pumped-Storage Project...	1,602		Operational
New Tienlun Hydro Power Station	110		Operational
Shimen Dam Shimen Dam Shimen Dam is an embankment dam crossing the Dahan River in Taoyuan County, Taiwan. Serving mainly for municipal water supply and flood control, the dam creates Shimen Reservoir in the mountains south of Longtan. The construction plan was created in 1938 under Japanese rule, but was not...	400	24°48′38"N 121°14′39"E	Operational
Techi Dam Techi Dam The Techi Dam is a concrete thin arch dam on the Dajia River in the mountains of central Taiwan, some south of Heping in Taichung County. At high, it is one of the tallest dams in the country. It serves primarily for flood control and hydroelectric generation...	234	24°15′19"N 121°10′03"E	Operational

*PS Indicates a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station.

Coal

Fuel oil

Natural gas

Nuclear

Hydroelectric

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