Taiwan Today
Date: August 18, 2016
Taiwan will achieve greater energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reductions while
Premier Lin Chuan (right) discusses ways of increasing renewable energy generation during a recent visit to a wind power farm in southern Taiwan’s Pingtung County. (CNA)
regularly reviewing progress on reaching targets set out under the Paris Agreement, Premier Lin Chuan said Aug. 16 at the first committee meeting of the Energy and Carbon Emission Reductions Office under the Executive Yuan.
“As a member of the international community and an advanced economy, Taiwan is obliged to tackle global warming and climate change,” Lin said “Establishment of this office is significant at a time when these issues are the primary concern of every nation.”
According to Lin, the office has set three initial goals: boosting solar power generation, lifting wind power generation and industry-related investment and transforming Shalun Village of southern Taiwan’s Tainan City into a center for green energy R&D.
Under the first, the office will assist the Ministry of Economic Affairs in implementing Sept. 1 a two-year project aimed at increasing solar power installed capacity to 1.44 gigawatts in two years’ time. The latest MOEA statistics reveal that Taiwan had installed capacity of 832 megawatts in 2015. [FULL STORY]
