Ch'en Mo-hsing, director of the Energy Systems Research Center at the University of Texas, indicated during a visit to Taiwan this May that if cogeneration is promoted on Taiwan now, then Taipower need not order power cutbacks or build any new power plants for the next ten years.
美國德州大學能源系統研究中心主任陳謨星，今年五月初訪台時也指出，如果國內現在開始推行汽電共生，讓民間自行發電，台電可在十年內不須限電、也不須建造任何電廠。