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A small hydroelectric plant built in 1919 by the Hsinchu Electric Light Company (新竹電燈株式會社) and fed by the Zhudong Canal, which carries its tailwater onward for irrigation and industrial supply. Taken over by the Taiwan Power Company after World War 2 and later abandoned following flood damage, it was rebuilt in the early 1990s as an unstaffed plant operated remotely from Xindian. Now formally the Guishan Power Plant Ruanqiao Unit (桂山發電廠軟橋機組), it is described by Taipower as the smallest hydroelectric plant in Taiwan, with a capacity of roughly 200 kW.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Commonwealth Magazine (天下雜誌)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Energy Industry in Taiwan (台灣能源業)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.