Activists yesterday gathered in front of the Executive Yuan in Taipei to call for ensuring the right to clean air by accelerating the retirement of coal power. Massive power consumption by the high-tech sector should not be used as an excuse to delay the retirement, they said. “The best energy is not green energy, but saving energy,” he said. The government should establish a coal retirement timeline that properly reflects a corresponding increase in gas power, she said. Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) in a statement last week also said that the first gas-fired power generation unit has been constructed at Taichung Power Plant and is being tested.
