After Shen, who will take the lead on Taiwan’s offshore wind development?
Taiwan’s offshore wind industry says goodbye to Vice Premier Shen Jong-chin, both a dogged defender of the nascent industry and a heavy-handed proponent of localization. Who will replace “the strongest grandpa on the face of the planet?”
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After Shen, who will take the lead on Taiwan’s offshore wind development?
Taiwan’s offshore wind industry says goodbye to Vice Premier Shen Jong-chin, both a dogged defender of the nascent industry and a heavy-handed proponent of localization. Who will replace “the strongest grandpa on the face of the planet?”
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Taiwan Round 3 Auction award order revealed
Taiwan’s Bureau of Energy announced yesterday that ten of the eleven wind farm projects submitted by six developers for Round 3.1 qualified for the 3GW auction. Since the cap on every developer is 500MW, we can surmise even before the announcement yesterday that every developer will get a project. Let’s take a look at the list of qualified projects and do some detective work on which six is most likely to be developed.
INTERVIEW: Dr. Martin Skiba of German Offshore Initiative
Unredacted. biz would like to thank the German Offshore-wind Initiative (GOI) for sponsoring in part my trip to WindEnergy Hamburg 2022. There, I had ...
2022 Taiwan's Year in Review
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Offshore Wind Localization report by the Control Yuan (Angelica’s Edit)
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Rising Commodity Prices Hits Taiwan’s Projects
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What’s next for Yunlin OWF…and Taiwan?
“Some projects are just unlucky”
That’s what a fellow developer said of the 640MW Yunlin offshore wind farm, originally developed by Germany’s wpd a...
Will New Administrative Contracts Spell Trouble for Round 3 Auctions?
“If these newly-announced changes to the administrative contract stand, none of our projects are going to be bankable....
Things Are Going OK in Taiwan, Actually
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Localization in Taiwan: Policy by Powerpoint?
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