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Tuesday 13 March 2018
Swancor aims at cumulative 2.6GW offshore wind power installation in Taiwan by 2025
Swancor Holding aims to reach cumulative installation capacity of 520MW by 2020 and 2.6GW by 2025 for offshore wind farms in the Taiwan Strait, according to company chairman and president...
Tuesday 27 February 2018
52GW wind power installations added in 2017, says WWEA
New onshore and offshore wind turbine installations totaled 52.552GW around the world in 2017, increasing 2.24% on year and leading to a cumulative total of 539.291GW as of the end...
Friday 23 February 2018
Wind power is practical in Taiwan, says energy authority
The Bureau of Energy has dismissed skepticism about the practicality of wind power in Taiwan where capacity factor in the summer is estimated at very low levels by some critics.
Tuesday 13 February 2018
Swancor, Macquarie and EnBW to jointly develop offshore wind farms
Swancor Renewable Energy and Australia-based partner Macquarie Capital have signed with Germany-based energy developer Energie Baden-Wurttemberg AG (EnBW) to jointly develop three...
Thursday 1 February 2018
TEEMA organizes alliance to explore global energy storage market
Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (TEEMA) has organized an industrial alliance to promote the development of energy storage systems in Taiwan, seeking to...
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Taiwan to let foreign banks arrange financing for offshore wind farm projects
Taiwan plans to let foreign banks arrange syndicated loans for the country's offshore wind farm projects, according to deputy economics minister Kung Ming-hsin.
Thursday 30 November 2017
Swancor, TIPC Marine set up JV for offshore wind power
Wind power generation developer Swancor Renewable Energy has announced the establishment of a joint venture with TIPC Marine, a wholly-owned subsidiary of state-run seaport operator...
Tuesday 24 October 2017
Taiwan justifies high feed-in tariff for offshore wind farms
The Office of Energy and Carbon Reduction (OECR) has defended the government's feed-in tariff of NT$6 (US$0.198)/kWh set for offshore wind power generation against criticism that...
Monday 16 October 2017
SWancor offshore wind farm project obtains preliminary environmental approval
SWancor has passed preliminary environmental impact assessment (EIA) by the Environmental Protection Administration for Formosa II, a project to develop an offshore wind farm west...
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Taiwan steelmaker partners with CI III, DGA for offshore wind farm
Taiwan-based steelmaker China Steel Corp (CSC) has signed an MoU with Copenhagen Infrastructure III KS (CI III) and Diamond Generating Asia (DGA) to co-develop a wind farm off Taiwan's...
Thursday 28 September 2017
China wastes large amounts of clean energy, say reports
China wasted over 110 billion kWh of electricity generated by PV, wind turbines and hydraulic power plants in first-half 2017, because of failure to connect to local power grids or...
Wednesday 20 September 2017
UL to help Taiwan set up certification capability for offshore wind farms
US-based Underwriters Laboratories (UL) will have DEWI-OCC, a Germany-based UL company providing global one-stop wind energy certification services for turbines and components, provide...
Tuesday 19 September 2017
GuoDian United Power to sell stake in wind turbine maker
China's state-owned GuoDian United Power Technology will dispose of its 51% stake in Combined Power of Yangtze River (Jiangsu), a maker of offshore wind turbines, according to China...
Tuesday 12 September 2017
Taiwan county signs with CIP to boost offshore wind power generation
The Chnaghua County government has disclosed it has signed an MoU with Denmark-based Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) for cooperation to boost development of offshore wind...
Monday 24 July 2017
Taipower to set up wind turbine assembly site
Taiwan's state-run power company has unveiled a plan to set up a site at a port to assemble wind turbines to be installed in the Taiwan Straits.