Taiwan largely relies on imports and fossil fuels for its energy sources. In light of the global trend of greenhouse gas reductions and the national nuclear-free homeland consensus, the government has established a new energy policy target to increase the proportion of electricity generated by renewable energy to 20% by 2025. Through this target, the government aims to develop a safe, stable, effective, and clean renewable energy supply and demand system, as well as create sustainable value by maintaining the balance between renewable energy safety, environmental sustainability, and green economic development, thus moving toward the vision of a nuclear-free homeland by 2025.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs has set installation capacity and electricity generation targets for various renewable energy sources, as shown in Tables 1 and 2. The long-term electricity generation target for wind energy by 2025 is set at 4.2 GW, with 1.2 GW and 3 GW of electricity expected to be generated from onshore and offshore wind energy, respectively.

Table 1 Installation capacity targets for various energy sources (MW)                                                                                                                                             

Table 2 Annual electricity targets for various energy sources (Hundred GWh)                                                                                                                                         

For more information, please visit: Bureau of Energy, Ministry of Economic Affairs.