Preliminary investigations have been conducted on over 100 hot springs on Taiwan, and in 1981 the island's first geothermal station was completed at Ilan, in the Northeast.
台灣全島約有一百多處溫泉散佈，已經過初步的調查和探勘，民國七十年，完成宜蘭清水先導型地熱發電廠。