Taiwan's wind power generation may grow to 3,000 MWs by 2020 due to increased government attention to clean or renewable energy. Many experts believe Taiwan, with some of the world's best engineers and advanced technologies, could emerge as an important player in the clean energy field.
Karen Ma, a researcher with the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center of ITRI's Industry and Technology Intelligence Services (IEK-ITIS), said that as wind power is considered by the government to be the most important renewable energy, the country's wind power installation capacity will be increased to 3,000MWs in 12 years.
He forecasted that increased wind power generation is expected to indirectly generate commerce worth over US$6.12 billion in the country by 2020. Ma also predicted that by 2009, China is expected to replace the United's States as the world's largest country in terms of wind power installation capacity.
Up to this year, Taipower, the sole electricity supplier in Taiwan, has installed more than 100 giant wind turbines in 13 wind farms along Taiwan's west coast, with a capacity of 420 MW a year -- enough power to power 105,000 households and prevent the emission of 250,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year. Taipower began to harness wind energy in 2002 and plans to establish 200 wind turbines in Taiwan and Penghu by 2010.
Taiwan's coastal areas are ideal for the development of wind power because they have six months of strong northwest winds each year, with an average wind speed of five to six meters per second. The Bureau of Energy under the ministry of Economic Affairs has targeted renewable energy as a way to meet 10 percent of Taiwan's electricity needs by 2010, with wind power to make up 80% of renewable energy resources.
In the long term, Taipower plans is to build an additional 546 wind turbines between 2010 and 2020 in shallow waters off Taiwan's west coast and Penghu, with a total capacity of 1,980 MWs at an estimated cost of NT$200 million each. Out of the 546 windmills, 176 will be built off the Penghu Islands, and the electricity generated by these units will be transmitted to Taiwan through a 40-kilometer undersea cable.
Source: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/asia/b-taiwan/2008/11/13/182937/Taiwan%E2%80%99s-wind.htm Date: 13-11-2008
Karen Ma, a researcher with the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center of ITRI's Industry and Technology Intelligence Services (IEK-ITIS), said that as wind power is considered by the government to be the most important renewable energy, the country's wind power installation capacity will be increased to 3,000MWs in 12 years.
He forecasted that increased wind power generation is expected to indirectly generate commerce worth over US$6.12 billion in the country by 2020. Ma also predicted that by 2009, China is expected to replace the United's States as the world's largest country in terms of wind power installation capacity.
Up to this year, Taipower, the sole electricity supplier in Taiwan, has installed more than 100 giant wind turbines in 13 wind farms along Taiwan's west coast, with a capacity of 420 MW a year -- enough power to power 105,000 households and prevent the emission of 250,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year. Taipower began to harness wind energy in 2002 and plans to establish 200 wind turbines in Taiwan and Penghu by 2010.
Taiwan's coastal areas are ideal for the development of wind power because they have six months of strong northwest winds each year, with an average wind speed of five to six meters per second. The Bureau of Energy under the ministry of Economic Affairs has targeted renewable energy as a way to meet 10 percent of Taiwan's electricity needs by 2010, with wind power to make up 80% of renewable energy resources.
In the long term, Taipower plans is to build an additional 546 wind turbines between 2010 and 2020 in shallow waters off Taiwan's west coast and Penghu, with a total capacity of 1,980 MWs at an estimated cost of NT$200 million each. Out of the 546 windmills, 176 will be built off the Penghu Islands, and the electricity generated by these units will be transmitted to Taiwan through a 40-kilometer undersea cable.
Source: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/asia/b-taiwan/2008/11/13/182937/Taiwan%E2%80%99s-wind.htm Date: 13-11-2008
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