Hoping to keep up with this trend, Taipower recently established a diversification committee. It is currently overseeing manufacture of coal transport ships and in vestment in coal mines abroad. After the mobile-phone market was opened up early this year, Taipower invested in KG Telecommunications, a new private firm, thus entering into competition against its sibling state-run corporation Chunghwa Telecom.
為了趕上這股潮流，台電最近也成立了「多角化經營推行委員會」，目前已經在進行的包括監造煤輪、投資國外煤礦；今年初行動電話業務開放後，台電還投資民間新成立的和信電訊，和同屬國營的難兄難弟﹘﹘中華電信﹘﹘打起了對台。