The Smart Grid Action Plan
Smart grids are vital to driving energy transition and industrial development. Taipower is dedicated to mitigating the intermittency of renewable energy generation, enhancing grid resilience,improving transmission and distribution integration,and strengthening disaster response and troubleshooting. It also aims to optimize supply-demand management and boost user participation to build an efficient and stable smart grid.
The primary goals of smart grid development are:
- addressing the challenges of integrating renewable energy
- strengthening existing grid resilience to improve power quality and cope with extreme weather; and
- encouraging user participation in energy conservation to enhance power system efficiency.
Taipower has been implementing smart grid infrastructure based on the Smart Grid Master Plan which was approved and revised by the Executive Yuan on March 27,2020.The plan is structured around problem-solving and system integration, with 7 strategic areas,21 specific measures, and 14 key checkpoints. Taipower is responsible for 6 of the 7 areas,17 of the specific measures, and 13 of the key checkpoints. It continues to implement and regularly review progress to enhance energy management and grid resilience.
On March 27, 2020, Taipower began to carry out smart grid construction in accordance with The Smart Grid Master Plan as approved and amended by the Executive Yuan’s Bureau of Energy. The plan is oriented towards problem-solving and system integration, and is divided into 7 key strategic areas, 21 specific practices, and 14 checkpoint objectives. Taipower is mainly responsible for six areas, 17 specific practices, and 13 checkpoint targets. The Company continuously implements and reviews its performance in these areas to strengthen its energy management and grid resilience.
Smart Grid Performance in 2024
Under the Smart Grid Master Plan approved by the Executive Yuan,Taipower is responsible for six of the seven strategic areas. In 2024,the Company recorded major achievements in five of these areas. Key performance highlights are as follows:
01Smart Dispatch and Power Generation
Taipower integrated real-time renewable energy generation data and established an information management platform,a power market trading platform,and a big data monitoring system for coal-fired units.It also introduced the Distribution-level Renewable Energy Advanced Management System (DREAMS).Real time monitorable renewable capacity reached 8.44 GW in 2024.
02Grid Management
Taipower planned,operated, and maintained transmission system data,and consolidated information to strengthen asset management for transmission and distribution systems.In2024,the average failure time of transmission system equipment was 0.0 hours per year.
03Energy Storage Systems
The installed capacity of energy storage systems reached 1,420.3 MW in 2024.
04Demand Side Management
Taipower focused its Automated Metering Infrastructure (AMI)deployment on users with high power-saving potential.By the end of 2024,a cumulative total of 3.403 million AMI installationshad been completed.
05Technology(ICT)Infrastructure
Completed 106 km of optical cable deployment,installed 61 sets of fiber optic communication systems, and provided 1,982 communication circuits.
06Statutory Regulations
Revisions to the Taipower Grid Dispatching Guidelines and Renewable Energy Grid Connection Technical Guidelines.