Orsted and Taiwanese Officials celebrated the commissioning of 1st sections of the Greater Changhau Offshore Wind Farms, the biggest of their kind in Asia.
The people gathered at the operations and maintenance centre in the Taichung Port, which lies along the Strait of Taiwan.
The wind farms have doubled Taiwan’s offshore wind energy capacity. Additionally, this is Orsted’s first gigawatt-scale offshore wind farm outside Europe.
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen said they now have Asia-Pacific’s biggest offshore wind farm and offshore wind supply chain. It took them eight years to reach this far, he added.
The celebration marked the completion of the project’s Changhau 1 & 2a sections, which provide 900 NW of capacity in total.
Work on the next phases, 2b and 4, is ongoing. After they are commissioned, they will add an additional 920 MW. Work for this phase is expected…
