Taiwan is one of the most powerful economies in Asia, a densely populated island with about 23 million people squeezed into 36,000 square kilometers. The island is a global technology powerhouse, producing more than 60% of the world’s semiconductors and serving as home to manufacturing giants that offer everything from advanced smartphones. However, the island’s economic prosperity comes with a huge demand for reliable electricity. Energy security represents one of Taiwan’s most pressing challenges. With almost no fossil fuel resources and limited energy resources for its needs, the island imports about 98% of its energy. The semiconductor manufacturing plants that drive the economy are extremely energy efficient, requiring uninterrupted power delivery to maintain rational manufacturing processes. Power outages can stop production of the most important lines worth millions of dollars, making grid resilience and efficient energy production not just an infrastructure concern but the infrastructure foundation for Taiwan’s economic competitiveness. This fact has led the island to pursue energy cutting technologies, including combined cycle plants that can bring high efficiency to imported natural gas. One such plant, the Solar II II facility, entered commercial operation in May 2025. It is widely accepted that 2025 Bullying Top Plant Award. “This project was recognized with your Power Plant award, I think this is a very interesting story and a good finish I would never have expected when I got here,” said the director of business development with Nokia Energy, said he was a guest Podcast Postcast. The Sun Ba II is a Multi-shaft configuration of the Sun X 1, meaning there are two gas turbines and two turbine recovery steam generators (hrsgs) operating one steam turbine. Gas turbines and steam turbines each have their own manufacturers. “We used our latest 100% gas turbine for this project – the SGT-9000hl,” explains Ringmann. “The Turbine Turbine is an SST-5000, so that’s a triple pressure turbine turbine with a combined HP [high-pressure] and IP [intermediate-pressure] turbine, with double flow lp [low-pressure] turbine. Also, we had an air-cooled condenser, allowing steam from that hot stove, and we had a three-pressure regenerative HRSG, which had benson-type technology. ” This project began when the peak of the epidemic situation, which brought a great challenge. “All the project meetings, all the design meetings, all the division meetings were done online,” said the project manager. We simply found this. ” The effective cooperation between the project partners was the key to success. “The partnership is not limited to Consortium Partner with CTCI, EPC [engineering, procurement, and construction] The company – but actually for the customer, Sun BA Power, “ewen chi, a sales manager with Nokia Energy, said.” Everyone has the same target, which is to bring power to the grid as quickly as possible. Therefore, with this attitude of one boat – everyone sitting in the same boat and rolling towards the goal – actually helped this project to succeed and overcome many challenges. ” Chang admitted that the completion of the period was achieved only in all groups that maintain the spirit of cooperation. “Therefore, the performance of this high price,” said Ringmann. ” Meanwhile, the lessons learned from this first installation of HL technology in Taiwan are used in a new project. will continue to love this collaboration and the next project,” reports Chang. To learn more about the Sun Ba II project, listen to the full interview with ringmann, chang, and chi on Podcast Postcast. Click on the SoundCloud player below to listen in your browser now or use the following links to access the Show page on your favorite podcast platform:
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