Next, attention was turned to Taipower where another donation of NT $ 100 million was secured. In 1988, when Wang Chao-ming, deputy chief of the Council for Economic Planning and Development learned of difficulties that were facing the project he decided to divert Chinese Petroleum's surplus of NT $ 450 million to the Dept.
民國七十七年，時任經建會副主委的王昭明瞭解南星計畫的困境後，也決定將當時中油的盈餘款四億五千萬元轉撥給高雄市環保局專案使用。