Taiwan's offshore wind programme is one of the most ambitious in Asia outside China. Capacity targets run into double-digit gigawatts. A domestic supply chain is being built. European developers have anchored projects off the western coast. The strategic ambition is real...
Changhua residents demonstrated outside of the Ministry of Environment late last month in a demonstration against a wind power project. Demonstrators were from Dacheng Township, where a developer currently plans three wind power turbines on a coastal levee. The wind power turbines would generate a combined 12.78 megawatts...
Anger from fishermen has broken out after plans by German energy company EnerVest to develop wind farms near the islets of Huaping, Mianhua, and Pengjia. Controversy regarding the issue follows a familiar dynamic in Taiwan...
News that semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC intends to switch to 100% renewable energy has been welcomed by environmentalists. However, this has also seen controversy, given plans by TSMC to construct a solar farm in Pingtung by clearing reforested land...
