Renewable Energies in Taiwan

Renewable energies are sustainable and clean energies not only may overcome the gradual depletion of traditional fossil energies that have impacts on the environment but also can solve the issues of energy sustainability economic development and environmental protection. A medium subtropical island surrounded by the Pacific Ocean Taiwan has enormous potential to develop various renewables such as solar biomass wind geothermal hydro. According to the estimation the total renewable energy (RE) reserve is about 194GW which equals to 4 times of national installed power capacity in 2015 e.g. 48.7GW so Taiwan has abundant renewable energy resources indeed. Taiwan imports 97% of total energy supply from foreign countries so the energy security constitutes the most important topic for the national energy policy. In 2009 the central government promulgated the Renewable Energy Development Bill as the milestone policy to develop RE. In mid-2016 the new government (DPP) came to power claiming the Nuclear-free Homeland as its main energy policy in short by 2025 the RE power generation installed capacity will account 20% for the all power generation capacity in the country.