Taipei Environmental Project Uses 100kWh Photovoltaic Container

Why is solar energy important in Taiwan?

Taiwan lacks energy stock and has been paying great attention to developing renewable energy to improve energy security and sustain economic growth. Solar energy is attractive to Taiwan's government as the recorded radiation is substantial, and a significant amount of fallow land is available for panel installation.

How will Taiwan's energy policy affect the solar energy industry?

According to the current Taiwanese government's energy policy, energy transition path, and net-zero emission target by 2050 [69, 71], as the development of solar PV in the country will be accelerated, more tensions at the local level are expected to emerge.

Why should Taiwan accept large-scale solar PV projects?

The overall results indicate that the concept of “ethics of care” for humans, nature, and species is the most important key issue for the community to accept large-scale solar PV projects in Taiwan. 5.3. Political goal of energy transition as the leading factor of socio-technical tensions

What is Taiwan's energy transition path?

The Taiwanese government established its first energy transition path in the Energy Development Guideline announced in 2017 with the aim of replacing coal-fired and nuclear electricity generation with liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fired and renewable energy .