SOLAR SYSTEMS:The government is to offer subsidies for communities in remote areas and ease the restrictions on installing solar panels on illegal rooftop structures
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 26, 2017
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
The Cabinet has approved a plan to subsidize the construction and design costs of
Part of the roof at Nanmen Market in Taipei that holds a solar-panel array is pictured yesterday. Photo: CNA
residential rooftop solar systems, starting next year, as part of its efforts to boost solar power generation.
A stimulus package introduced yesterday would offer subsidies to households installing rooftop solar systems, covering 40 percent of construction costs and 100 percent of design costs, from next year to 2020, Minister of Economic Affairs Shen Jong-chin (沈榮津) said.
The government would also offer subsidies for the construction of public solar power stations in remote areas and Aboriginal lands, covering 100 percent of design costs, Shen said.
It would offer a subsidy of up to NT$600,000 for each power station for the construction of power lines, and would promise to purchase the extra electricity generated, Shen added. [FULL STORY]
