Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/02
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan
Taipei, Aug. 2 (CNA) An internationally renowned energy and climate advisor suggested Thursday that Taiwan should introduce more policies to accelerate and scale up its energy transition, with the goal of achieving 100 percent renewable energy by 2030.
“Transiting to 100 percent renewable is not a far away target. It is the main strategy in many nations,” Hans-Josef Fell, founder and president of the Berlin-based Energy Watch Group, said in a keynote speech at an international forum on new energy in Taipei.
Fell said he was happy to see Taiwan embark on it own energy transition toward a nuclear-free homeland seven years after he discussed related issues with President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) when she led an opposition Democratic Progressive Party delegation to Berlin in 2011.
Tsai has pledged to decommission Taiwan’s nuclear power plants, which now generate 9.3 percent of the nations electricity, by 2025, and switch to a mix of 50 percent liquefied natural gas, 30 percent coal and 20 percent renewable energy, which currently accounts for 4.9 percent. [FULL STORY]