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Tuesday 24 October 2017
Taiwan justifies high feed-in tariff for offshore wind farms
The Office of Energy and Carbon Reduction (OECR) has defended the government's feed-in tariff of NT$6 (US$0.198)/kWh set for offshore wind power generation against criticism that...
Monday 16 October 2017
SWancor offshore wind farm project obtains preliminary environmental approval
SWancor has passed preliminary environmental impact assessment (EIA) by the Environmental Protection Administration for Formosa II, a project to develop an offshore wind farm west...
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Taiwan steelmaker partners with CI III, DGA for offshore wind farm
Taiwan-based steelmaker China Steel Corp (CSC) has signed an MoU with Copenhagen Infrastructure III KS (CI III) and Diamond Generating Asia (DGA) to co-develop a wind farm off Taiwan's...
Thursday 28 September 2017
China wastes large amounts of clean energy, say reports
China wasted over 110 billion kWh of electricity generated by PV, wind turbines and hydraulic power plants in first-half 2017, because of failure to connect to local power grids or...
Wednesday 20 September 2017
UL to help Taiwan set up certification capability for offshore wind farms
US-based Underwriters Laboratories (UL) will have DEWI-OCC, a Germany-based UL company providing global one-stop wind energy certification services for turbines and components, provide...
Tuesday 19 September 2017
GuoDian United Power to sell stake in wind turbine maker
China's state-owned GuoDian United Power Technology will dispose of its 51% stake in Combined Power of Yangtze River (Jiangsu), a maker of offshore wind turbines, according to China...
Tuesday 12 September 2017
Taiwan county signs with CIP to boost offshore wind power generation
The Chnaghua County government has disclosed it has signed an MoU with Denmark-based Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) for cooperation to boost development of offshore wind...
Monday 24 July 2017
Taipower to set up wind turbine assembly site
Taiwan's state-run power company has unveiled a plan to set up a site at a port to assemble wind turbines to be installed in the Taiwan Straits.
Friday 21 July 2017
Taiwan sees proposed offshore wind power projects far exceed target
Investors have proposed plans to establish offshore wind turbines with total installation capacity of over 10GW in the Taiwan Strait, far exceeding the 2025 target of 3.0GW set by...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
China adds 5.5GWp of wind power in 1H17, says CNREC
China installed land-based wind turbines with capacity totaling 5.5GWp in the country in first-half 2017, according to China National Renewable Energy Center (CNREC). Newly added...
Friday 14 July 2017
MOEA sets 2017 feed-in tariffs for PV, wind power
The Bureau of Energy under Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on July 13 announced feed-in tariffs for PV power stations, rooftop PV systems, and onshore and offshore wind...
Wednesday 5 July 2017
Taiwan government plans to facilitate bank lending for offshore wind power projects
The Taiwan government, in view of local banks' conservative attitude towards offering loans for offshore wind power generation projects, plans to take measures to hike lending.
Wednesday 14 June 2017
Taiwan aims to increase wind power-generating capacity by 652MW during 2017-2020
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has come up with a 4-year (2017-2020) wind power generation plan aiming to increase cumulative wind power-generating capacity from 682MW...
Monday 22 May 2017
Northland Power, Yushan Energy jointly propose offshore wind farm project in Taiwan
Canada-based Northland Power and Singapore-based Yushan Energy have jointly proposed a project to establish wind power-generating facilities some 50km off Taiwan's west coast, according...
Thursday 26 January 2017
DONG Energy, Macquarie Capital to acquire stakes in Formosa I
Denmark-based DONG Energy AVS and Australia-based Macquarie Capital will acquire a 35% stake and a 50% stake respectively, in Formosa I, an offshore wind power generation project...