Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-03-09

President Tsai Ing-wen says she has faith that the percentage of renewables in Taiwan’s

energy mix will reach 20% by 2025. Tsai was speaking on Thursday while meeting with a delegation from Danish energy company DONG Energy.

DONG has agreed to build Taiwan’s first offshore wind power generator as well as four wind farms off the coast of Changhua county on the country’s west coast.

Tsai thanked the company for investing in Taiwan. She said Taiwan is working to lessen its reliance on nuclear and fossil fuels. Tsai said the use of renewable energy reached a new high last year but said this is not good enough.

“Last year, the percentage of renewables in Taiwan’s energy mix reached 4.8%, the highest in our history. But this level is still too low. Our plan is to reach 20% by 2025,” Tsai said. “We believe we can achieve that goal because we have a complete policy package. Within this, the policy for integrating wind farms passed its environmental impact assessment at the end of last year.”    [FULL  STORY]