Category: MIL-OSI

Source: Republic of China Taiwan

Taipower wins the “corporate sustainability Oscars” yet again! The Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards (TCSAs) were awarded today (November 26). Taipower was head and shoulders above a pack of more than 700 companies, winning the high honor of a corporate sustainability award for the 7th time. Taipower also took a Best Sustainability Practice Award, a Talent Development Leadership Award, and a Creative Communication Leadership Award, winning a total of 4 awards. A Taipower spokesperson stated that, as the driving force behind Taiwan’s civil economy and industrial development, Taipower will continue to uphold the principles of ESG operations while giving equal care to a stable power supply and environmentally-sustainable development.

The award ceremony for the 2025’s TCSAs, the 18th iteration of the awards, was held today at the Grand Hotel Taipei. Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer Tsai Chih-Meng represented Taipower at the ceremony, accepting the awards from Ministry of Labor Deputy Minister Huang Lin-Na. This year’s awards marked the 17th time that Taipower has won affirmation in the form of a sustainability report award.

A Taipower spokesperson stated that winning this year’s Best Sustainability Practice Award and the Corporate Sustainability Report Platinum Award for the seventh time helps bring attention to Taipower’s eye-catching performance in environmental sustainability, social co-prosperity, and corporate governance. The 5-Part Vision for Sustainable Development disclosed in the report lays out Ten Strategic Pathways and sets action plans for each, earnestly responding to the both the UN’s and Taiwan’s sustainable development goals.

The spokesperson pointed out that in this year’s Workplace Wellbeing Leadership Awards, Taipower also took home a Talent Development Leadership Award and a Creative Communication Leadership Award. Credit for the affirmation of the Talent Development Leadership Award goes to the technical know-how transferal between generations of expert power industry employees. In addition to seeking new recruits through a variety of channels, Taipower also invests strongly in talent training. Taipower puts great emphasis on expertise, safety, and onsite response abilities. Taipower has also held skills competitions for more than half a century now, which continually refine employees’ core abilities while extending generational experience. This helps create the power industry elites needed to take on the mission of providing a stable supply of power.

The spokesperson further explained that the Creative Communication Leadership Award is an affirmation of Taipower’s continued work to promote power industry culture. Since 2016, Taipower has been investing in electrical industry cultural heritage preservation, combining cultural object inventories, collections, research, publishing, displaying, interchanges, and more. Nearly 2000 important cultural objects have been stored in the Taipower Collection Center, and a digital companion in the form of the Electrical Industry Cultural Object Online Collection has also been opened to share with society at large. This highlights how Taipower is promoting the concepts of corporate concern for the humanities and cultural sustainability.

Spokesperson: Chief Administrator Huang Mei-Lien
Phone: (02) 2366-6271/ 0922-696-383
Email: u030573@taipower.com.tw

Contact Person: Department of Corporate Planning Director Kuo Chiu-Ying
Phone: (02) 2366-6440/0978-105-282
Email: u004770@taipower.com.tw

Source: Republic of China Taiwan

This year, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) organized the first-ever ESG for Culture Impact Awards. Taipower’s long-term investment in electrical industry cultural preservation and promotion of electrical industry culture both won affirmation at the awards. Today (November 21), Taipower won the dual honors of a Long-Term Partnership award and a Resource Assistance award. Taipower continues to uphold its mission of providing a stable supply of power, while also investing in arts and cultural events, cultural heritage conservation, and more. Through the deep connotations of electrical industry culture, Taipower aims to help promote the development of Taiwan’s cultural content industries.

The ceremony for the ESG for Culture Impact Awards was held concurrently with the ceremony for the 17th Arts & Business Awards, at Taipei’s Songshan Cultural and Creative Park. On behalf of Taipower, Vice President Tsai Chih-Meng accepted the awards presented by TAICCA CEO Erica Wang. Taipower has previously won the Ministry of Culture Arts & Business Awards four years running. This year, those awards were divided into individual and group categories. The ESG for Culture Impact Awards, established by TAICCA, are presented to corporations that collaborate on cultural content creators and build ESG impacts. Its first time participating, Taipower has already won affirmation for the Charging Up Culture: Electrical Industry Cultural Heritage Conservation Project.

A Taipower spokesperson pointed out that the electrical industry has been developing for a century in Taiwan. The electrical facilities spread across Taiwan not only support the country’s economic vitality, but are themselves evidence of Taiwan’s economic and social development. In 2016, Taipower initiated the Electrical Industry Cultural Heritage Conservation Project. This combines cultural object inventories, collections, research, publishing, displaying, interchanges, and more. Nearly 2000 important cultural objects have been stored in the Taipower Collection Center. The Center has also opened a digital companion in the form of the Electrical Industry Cultural Object Online Collection, to share with society at large. This highlights how Taipower is promoting the concepts of corporate concern for the humanities and cultural sustainability.

In recent years, Taipower has been working hard to promote broader social participation, aimed at making cultural heritage preservation less about static collections and more aimed at dynamic management. From 2024 to 2025, Taipower has continued to organize Power Industry Cultural Walks by the Xindian and Zhuoshui rivers. These events guide members of the public to a deeper understanding of how electrical facilities are linked to local development. The events also combine local innovative industry and sustainable travel. Taipower is simultaneously promoting oral history, with more than 65 retired electrical industry workers invited to do interviews. These oral histories record the career experiences and life stories of front-line electrical industry tradespeople, helping to preserve Taiwan’s intangible memories and the history of the electrical industry.

The spokesperson further noted that, through ongoing collaboration with cultural content producers, Taipower has in 2025 initiated an electrical industry culture picture book publishing project. An illustrator and author have been invited to learn deeply about Mingtan and Takuan power plants. They have combed through the developmental history of the electrical industry, and then been guided by experts to understand the principles of power generation, and generation unit operations and overhaul processes. The picture book Powe-Ring the Island: A Taiwanese Hydropower Journey through Time and Space (placeholder name), is set to be published in 2026. The book will use words and pictures to help more people see the expertise and beauty of electrical power in Taiwan, and will demonstrate the spirit of multidisciplinary collaboration in cultural content creation.

The spokesperson noted that 2026 will mark the company’s 80th anniversary. In the future, Taipower will continue to work together with cultural content creators and local cultural organizations, using cultural heritage as a medium for conveying the deep connections between electricity, locality, and society. Through the Collection Center, oral history recordings, culture walks, publishing, and the Electrical Industry Cultural Object Online Collection, Taipower will continue to use diverse methods to bring energy knowledge, electrical industry culture, and the spirit of corporate sustainability to the public at large.

Spokesperson: Chief Administrator Huang Mei-Lien
Phone: (02) 2366-6271/0922-696-383
Email: u030573@taipower.com.tw

Contact Person: Secretariat Director Hu Chung-Hsing
Phone: (02) 2366-6300/0963-805-653
Email: u872628@taipower.com.tw

Source: Republic of China Taiwan

Illegal actors have in recent days been impersonating Taipower by sending out emails that say things like “statement error, refund notice, apply for refund immediately”. By talking about calculation errors and refund applications, these scammers have tricked innocent people into clicking on phishing (scam) web-links and then stolen their money. Taipower reminds you that these kinds of emails often use a new type of scam where the entire email is an image. By displaying what appears to be a Taipower URL (web address) in the image, members of the public are tricked into following what is actually a malicious link to a fraudulent website. From there, scammers can trick you into providing your personal data. Taipower reminds you to be on high alert so that you don’t get scammed.

A Taipower spokesperson stated that there are only two ways in which overpaid bills can only be refunded: Transfer as a discount to the next period’s bill, or a refund in person at a service counter. Any email or text message telling you to apply for a refund through other methods is a scam.
The spokesperson pointed out that emails sent out by Taipower related to electrical bills will not attach URLs, nor will they ask you to provide your identification number, credit card number, or other such personal data. If you find that an email you receive has a URL in it, it is a phishing email.
The spokesperson further pointed out that you can also tell that an email is a scam by checking for errors in the sender’s email address, and misspelled/suspicious URLs. If the email obscures your Taipower customer number, obscures the sender’s email address, or has a zip file attachment, then it’s a phishing scam email. Do not click on any link you’re not sure about.

Taipower reminds you that if you encounter any suspicious emails, texts, or phone calls, you should call Taipower’s 24-hour 1911 customer service line or the Criminal Investigation Bureau’s 165 Anti-fraud Hotline to ask questions. Let’s all work together to fight scams and keep our pocketbooks safe!

Spokesperson: Chief Administrator Huang Mei-Lien
Phone: (02) 2366-6271/ 0922-696-383
Email: u030573@taipower.com.tw

Contact Person: Department of Business Director Chung Ssu-Suu
Phone: (02) 2366-6650/0922-483-804
Email: u149447@taipower.com.tw

Source: Republic of China Taiwan

An investigation report submitted by Control Yuan members has expressed concern about Taipower nuclear power plants’ seismic resilience. A Taipower spokesperson has explained that, since 2015 and in compliance with Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) requirements, Taipower has completed probabilistic seismic hazard analyses (PSHAs) for nuclear power plants based on the US Senior Seismic Hazard Analysis Committee (SSHAC) Level 3 protocol. Based on the analysis results, Taipower has implemented seismic strengthening of facilities related to safe shutdowns, and this has received NSC review and approval for filing.

Taipower has also completed seismic probabilistic risk assessments (SPRAs) for Kuosheng and Ma’anshan Nuclear Power Plants. These include secondary hazards resulting from earthquakes. The initial SPRAs showed that Kuosheng and Ma’anshan’s overall risk meet the standard. However, the assessment results and risk calculations await NSC review.

In addition, in 2024 and 2025, Taipower complied with NSC requests by inviting a foreign expert delegation to perform a parallel SPRA review. Based on the parallel review opinions, Taipower is currently implementing seismic margin improvements for safety facilities, running feasibility assessments, and recalculating earthquake risk values. Taipower will, in accordance with the law, complete the seismic safety assessment report and submit it to the NSC for technical review.

A spokesperson for Taipower reiterated that the use of nuclear power must abide by the government’s Two Requirements and the Three Principles, and that nuclear safety has always been Taipower’s utmost concern. At present, the current status of Taiwan’s nuclear power plants has been reported to the Ministry of Economic Affairs for review. Next steps will include restart planning and safety inspections that include seismic resistance, all of which will be carried out in accordance with NSC review requirements and related regulations.

Spokesperson: Chief Administrator Huang Mei-Lien
Phone: (02) 2366-6650/0922-696-383
Email: u030573@taipower.com.tw

Contact Person: Department of Nuclear Technology Director Chang Chin-Kuan
Phone: (02) 2366-7110/0972-787-866
Email: u685014@taipower.com.tw

Source: Republic of China Taiwan

Great news from the Taipower Women’s Badminton team! Taiwan’s elite women’s singles badminton player Chiu Pin-Chian took the women’s singles championship at the 2025 Korea Masters (Super 300 class), which came to a close yesterday (November 9). This was the first Badminton World Federation (BWF) Super championship that she has taken. She is also Taiwan’s first women’s singles player to pass the Super 300 since the “Queen of Badminton”, Tai Tzu-Ying. Chiu Pin-Chian’s world ranking represents a new career high, making her Taiwan’s current highest-ranked women’s singles badminton player.

Chiu was born and bred in Kaohsiung. For 16 years now, she has flourished within Taiwan’s domestic training system. From a young age, she has demonstrated a determined fighting spirit and a great passion for badminton. She is the perfect portrait of the Taiwanese people’s spirit of hard work and self-encouragement. In 2018, Chiu joined the Taipower Women’s Badminton team. With strong support from the coaching staff and Taipower, she has continued to refine her badminton skills and reach new personal bests. Last year (2024), she stood out brilliantly by winning three separate 3rd-place titles in the Super 300, hugely increasing her world ranking. This year, she has shown eye-catching performance on the global stage. This chance to stand atop the championship platform at the Korea Masters games has created a new milestone in her career.

Taipower continues to help develop outstanding talent for athletics in Taiwan. Taipower provides a robust training environment and stable support that have helped train many national-level champions over the years, and which have provided these champions with life-long work. Chiu Pin-Chian is Taiwan’s first international women’s singles badminton champion to get through the Super 300 since Tai Tzu-Ying. A Taipower spokesperson expressed hopes that all the hard work that the Women’s Badminton team have put in keep Taiwanese badminton throwing off sparks of glory around the world. The spokesperson also stated that Sung Shuo-Yun, one of Chiu’s teammates, became Taiwan’s “First Elder Sister” upon becoming the world’s 18th-highest-ranked player. Sung has been working her way back up the rankings since recovering from an injury, and hopes to strive shoulder-to-shoulder with Chiu to win glory for Taiwan.

Spokesperson: Chief Administrator Huang Mei-Lien
Phone: (02) 2366-6650/0922-696-383
Email: u030573@taipower.com.tw

Contact Person: Department of Human Resources Director Shen Shu-Li
Phone: (02) 2366-7320/0920-459-090
Email: u149031@taipower.com.tw

Source: Republic of China Taiwan

Energy Taiwan 2025 kicked off today in grand style today (October 29) at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1. Responding to the global net-zero trend, Taipower brought the Connecting Power Worlds booth, themed on green energy, to the event. The booth features the entire span of green energy, from generation, storage, and dispatching, to conservation and trading. A Taipower spokesperson stated that the exhibition would continue for three days. When attendees play interactive games, they can win limited-availability gifts, and there are also chances to try specially-brewed coffee inspired by RE30 electrical products!

With the trend in recent years toward the net-zero transformation and green energy markets opening up, Taipower has already transformed from a traditional power supplier to a new position as a “power logistics platform”. At this exhibition, Taipower’s booth is themed around green energy, separated into four main aspects: Generating energy, storing energy, conserving energy, and trading power. The “Connected logistical transport” theme symbolizes electrical grid systems, to help you visualize the journey of green energy from generation, storage, and dispatching, all the way to conservation and trading. The Taipower spokesperson stated that the electric grid is a critical asset shared by the public as a whole; continuing to strengthen the grid’s systems will supply stable power to support development for people’s lives and industries in Taiwan.

The spokesperson explained that in the Generation Zone, wind, solar, hydro, and other forms of renewable power are represented as products to be transported in logistics totes. Using the model of shopping for products, the booth demonstrates small-scale green energy, RE30, and other such power products that are helping domestic businesses reduce carbon. The Storage Zone uses a white booth design to make it feel like you’re immersed within a power storage device. The interactive installation gives you an insight into how electricity flows and how the grid operates. The Conservation Zone uses real-life examples to show the effectiveness of deep energy saving. The booth includes an electrical conservation diagnosis service; businesses are invited to come take action to reduce energy consumption and carbon production.

The booth also includes a special “Greenverse” power exchange simulator. Tapping into the game interface through your cellphone, you can become a green energy enterprise and choose power solutions such as wind, solar, geothermal, and storage to create your own green energy project. By answering questions, you build up power points to compete and bid in the energy market, and get a real sense of what the green process, from generation to trade, is like.

Taipower has more good things to share. By completing the interactive experience, you can win an exclusive prize. There is also a chance to try coffee specially blended with a 30% sugar cane/70% Americano mix – a drink that symbolizes the concept of 30% Renewable Energy. Put together, it all adds up to an immersive experience for the eyes and tastebuds alike.

Taipower’s Connecting Power Worlds exhibition runs from now until October 31 at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1, Floor 4, in booth M0519 at Net-Zero Taiwan, every day from 10am to 5pm, and 10am to 4pm on October 31. In addition to providing a deep analysis of green energy, the booth will also feature talks every day, with topics ranging from deep energy saving and RE30 to small-scale green energy purchasing options and the Energy Trading Platform. You are most welcome to come attend the exhibition!

Spokesperson: Vice President Tsai Chih-Meng
Phone: (02) 2366-6271/0958-749-333
Email: u910707@taipower.com.tw

Contact Person: Department of Public Relations Director Yuan Mei-Ling
Phone: (02)2366-7430/0939-656-201
Email: u004465@taipower.com.tw

Source: Republic of China Taiwan

An investigation report submitted by Control Yuan members has urged that Taipower perform self-reviews of power supply resilience and the speed of power restoration. In response to the report, a Taipower spokesperson stated that the company will perform a humble self-review while continuing to make improvements and working hard to provide customers with a stable electricity supply. The spokesperson also pointed out that, in response to growing domestic demand for electricity, Taipower in recent years has been carrying out work such as building additional substations, replacing old distribution lines, and strengthening the distribution system, all aimed at enhancing the electrical grid’s resilience. Outages have shown a distinct decline in recent years. In 2024, national power distribution incidents resulting in outages were reduced by more than 13,000 as compared to 2012, a reduction of 65%. This shows that power distribution system stability has had a significant increase. In the future, Taipower will continue working hard to make further improvements.

The spokesperson further noted that Taipower has also implemented undergrounding of power cables in response to disaster response requirements. This will lower impacts on the power supply from natural disasters. Cable undergrounding has the advantages of enhancing power supply capacity, decreasing outages as a result of disasters, reducing cable contact with foreign objects, and increasing anti-disaster resilience. However, the cost of laying underground cable is approximately 8-12 times that of aerial cables. In addition, the competent authorities for roads have required recessed manhole covers. This has increased the difficulty in performing inspections and repairs at fault points, with the average time for power restoration vs. non-recessed locations going up by 3.5 hours. As a result, power cable undergrounding will continue to require careful deliberation regarding the scale of implementation. In addition, undergrounding requires conforming with local planning and public support. With construction costs high, it is at present impossible to provide power cable undergrounding works at large scale.

The Taipower spokesperson explained that, with automated feeder lines that have functions to rapidly detect and diagnose fault zones, the time for power restoration goes from the pre-automated time of about 1 hour to 5 minutes or less. When there are 1.5 or more automatic switches on a Taipower feeder line in the initial construction phase, the feeder line is considered automated. In order to further reduce power restoration times, and in order to make sure that grid improvement efficiency strengthens implementation of smart grid construction, Taipower is currently installing 3.6 such switches per feeder line. The 5-minute power restoration rate has gone from 17% in 2019 to 73.51% in September this year (2025), meaning that the effects of outages are limited far more rapidly than before.

The Taipower spokesperson stated that as regional economies develop and the people thrive and prosper, electrical demand also increases. Substations have become required power facilities in power usage hubs; but in terms of local ambiance, they are often considered “not-in-my-backyard” facilities. This makes it difficult to implement new planning projects. In order to lower local concerns and pay equal attention to aesthetics and the public interest, Taipower has in recent years used design, communication, and education to implement improvements. These have included bringing substations indoors and putting cables underground, while also integrating multi-purpose public spaces and green environments. Holding small-scale communication sessions and large talks with local communities has also created spaces for neighborly relations. And Taipower has used scientific data to resolve citizens’ concerns. One example is using third-party scientific testing and open information to show the safety statistics for electromagnetic fields, which has helped break down doubts held by member of the public.

Electrical facility construction is vital to stable development for people’s lives and industry. Taipower is continuing to strengthen local communication, resolve concerns for citizens, and use open, transparent information and systems to help society at large better understand the importance and necessity of upgrading the electrical grid. Taipower also hopes to receive support and assistance from all sectors of society as we work together to enhance power stability and provide a rock-solid foundation for regional prosperity and long-term development.

Spokesperson: Vice President Tsai Chih-Meng
Phone: (02) 2366-6271/0958-749-333
Email: u910707@taipower.com.tw

Contact Person: Department of Power Distribution Director Jao Yu-Chen
Phone: (02)2366-6650/0922-483-804
Email: u149447@taipower.com.tw

Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region – 4

​The Chief Executive, Mr John Lee, will pay a duty visit to Beijing from tomorrow (December 15) to December 17 to brief state leaders on the latest economic, social and political situation in Hong Kong. The Director of the Chief Executive’s Office, Ms Carol Yip, and the Private Secretary to the Chief Executive, Ms Queenie Wong, will join the visit.

During Mr Lee’s absence, the Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Chan Kwok-ki, will be the Acting Chief Executive.

Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region – 4

​Two incoming passengers were sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment with a fine of $1,000, and four weeks’ imprisonment with a fine of $800 by the Fanling Magistrates’ Courts today (December 12) for importing goods to which the Dutiable Commodities Ordinance (DCO) applies, possessing duty-not-paid cigarettes and failing to declare them to Customs officers, in contravention of DCO.

Customs officers intercepted a 40-year-old incoming male passenger and his accompanying child on December 5 at the Lok Ma Chau Spur Line Control Point. The officers found a total of 2,381 duty-not-paid cigarettes on the man and from the backpack carried by the child. The estimated market value of the seized cigarettes was about $9,700 and the duty potential was about $7,800. The male passenger was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment and fined $1,000.

In addition, Customs officers intercepted a 48-year-old incoming female passenger at the same control point on December 10, and seized 1,600 duty-not-paid cigarettes, with an estimated market value of about $6,500 and a duty potential of about $5,200, from a backpack in her possession. The female passenger was sentenced to four weeks’ imprisonment and fined $800.

Customs welcomes the sentence, noting that even a first-time offender may still be imprisoned. The custodial sentence has imposed a considerable deterrent effect and reflects the seriousness of the offences.

Customs reminds members of the public that under the DCO, cigarettes are dutiable goods to which the DCO applies. Any person who imports, deals with, possesses, sells or buys illicit cigarettes commits an offence. The maximum penalty upon conviction is a fine of $2 million and imprisonment for seven years.

Members of the public may report any suspected illicit cigarette activities to Customs’ 24-hour hotline 182 8080 or its dedicated crime-reporting email account (crimereport@customs.gov.hk) or online form (eform.cefs.gov.hk/form/ced002).

Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region – 4

The Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Chan Kwok-ki, will depart for Shenzhen tomorrow afternoon (December 15) to attend the Closing Event of the 12th National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the 9th National Special Olympic Games. The Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Miss Rosanna Law, will join the visit.

Mr Chan will return to Hong Kong the same evening.