Page 4 - GreenEnergy

Policy Initiatives —

Green Energy Technology

Industry Innovation

Promotion Plan

The Taiwanese government views green power and renewable energy
as one of the core strategic industries for responding to rapid changes in the
energy environment, global trends in greenhouse gas reduction, and the goal
of creating a non-nuclear homeland by 2025. The "Green Energy Technology
Industry Innovation Promotion Plan" is the core of the new energy policy
announced by the government in October 2016. The Plan focuses on the
three major goals of "green energy promotion," "industrial development," and
"technological innovation," which go together hand-in-hand with the four major
themes of "innovative capacity, energy storage, energy conservation, and system
integration." In addition to aiming for the policy goal of attaining 30,161MW in
renewable energy power generation capacity by 2025, it also seeks to promote
green energy technology development and industry development, create green
employment, and build a safe, stable, and efficient supply and demand system
for clean energy in Taiwan. With an eye to the targets for installed renewable
energy capacity in Taiwan set out in Table 1, Taiwan mainly focuses on solar
photovoltaics and offshore wind power, which together are expected to account
for more than 85% of Taiwan's renewable energy by 2025.
Table 1 Targets for installed renewable energy capacity in Taiwan,
and percentage of each type
Unit: 10MW, %
2020 2021 2025
Renewable Energy Category
Capacity Percentage Capacity Percentage Capacity Percentage
Photovoltaics 650 57.4 875 57.1 2,000 66.3
Land-based 81.4 7.2 83.5 5.5 120 4.0
Wind power
Offshore 97.6 8.6 267.4 17.5 573.8 19.0
Geothermal energy 15 1.3 16 1.0 20 0.7
Biomass 76.8 6.8 77.5 5.1 81.3 2.7
Hydropower 210 18.5 210 13.7 215 7.1
Fuel cell 2.2 0.2 2.5 0.2 6.0 0.2
Total 1,133.1 100.0 1,531.9 100.0 3,016.1 100.0
Source: Announcement of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (September 9, 2019),
Source: Announcement of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (September 9, 2019),
https://gazette2.nat.gov.tw/EG_FileManager/eguploadpub/eg025170/ch04/type1/gov31/num7/Eg.htm.
https://gazette2.nat.gov.tw/EG_FileManager/eguploadpub/eg025170/ch04/type1/gov31/num7/Eg.htm.
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