Taipower expects to start LNG imports from 2023

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - State-owned utility Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) expects to start its first imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from 2023 and has signed two non-binding deals to buy the super-chilled fuel, a senior company executive said.

The company expects to convert the deals into binding sales and purchase agreements by the end of this year, said Albert Jen, deputy director of Taipower’s department of fuels.

Taipower’s first imports would mean that state-run CPC Corporation would lose its status as Taiwan’s sole LNG importer. Taipower, which consumes about two-thirds of the LNG imported by the island, first obtained government permission to source the fuel from international markets in 2014.

Jen declined to identify the potential LNG sellers, saying that the deals were confidential.

The company currently operates five gas-fired power plants with a total 11,364 MW in capacity. Its consumption of natural gas has more than doubled from 2009, Jen said.

Last year, Taipower generated electricity using a mix of nearly 40 percent natural gas, nearly 40 percent coal and the rest based on nuclear, oil and renewable fuels, he said.

Feasibility studies for the Taichung and Hsieh-Ho power plants have been approved.

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