Category Archives: Wind Energy

Subsidiary of CSC Will Deliver Turbine Foundations for Ørsted’s Offshore Windfarms in Taiwan

published: 2018-11-15 9:30 | editor et_editor | category: News

Taiwan’s Sing Da Marine Structure Corp. (SDMS) will be supplying 56 jacket foundations to Denmark’s Ørsted A/S during 2020-2021 under a major deal that was signed between the two parties on 12 November. ... more

Offshore Wind Power Projects Confronted with Major Hurdles

published: 2018-11-14 11:14 | editor et_editor | category: News

More than half a year following determination of developers of offshore wind-power projects on a screening basis in April, none of them has yet to win permit for preparation for electricity businesses, making it doubtful for them to sign power supply contracts with state enterprise Taiwan Power Company by the end of the year, deadline for the their projects to be entitled to the wholesale power rate of NT$5.8/kWh pledged by the government. ... more

Capacity of Offshore Wind Power in Asia Pacific to Reach 43GW in 2027, Says Report

published: 2018-11-13 14:42 | editor et_editor | category: Analysis

The progress in the development of offshore wind power has been slower compared with the progress in the development of land-based wind power. ... more

CSBC Forms National Team for Off-shore Wind Power Business

published: 2018-10-29 11:33 | editor et_editor | category: News

CSBC Corp., Taiwan has allied with Taiwan International Ports Corp. and Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp., in order to tap the huge business potential for maritime engineering works for offshore wind power. Many other l... more

In Summer 2018, UK's Falling Wind Power Generation Called for Diversified Green Energy and Energy Storage Systems

published: 2018-09-27 9:50 | editor et_editor | category: News

Wind and solar energy generation both are weather-dependent technologies. The decreased wind or lack of sunshine will make generated power drop, respectively. For example, in June 2018, heat waves covered Europe. The &... more

Energy Taiwan Forum Calls for Localization of Offshore Wind Power Industry

published: 2018-09-26 10:45 | editor et_editor | category: News

Given Taiwan's outstanding geographic conditions, the government will spare no effort pushing offshore wind power, with the goal of installing 5.5 GW wind-power capacity by 2025, pointed out Shen Jong-chin, ministe... more

Germany Is the Top Runner of EU's Wind Power Installation; Its Auction Rules and Upper Limit of Installation Will Draw Attention in the Future

published: 2018-09-19 10:12 | editor et_editor | category: News

Germany's power system heavily relies on wind energy. Its wind farms generated more power than all of the other state’s wind power in the European Union in 2015. The wind power's share of Germany's to... more

2nd Taiwan Offshore Wind Energy Summit 2018

published: 2018-08-16 16:47 | editor Alice Pan | category: Event

In September 2017, the MoIT issued Circular No. 16/2017/TT-BCT on the detailed mechanism for encouraging the development of solar power projects in Vietnam, which includes a final template Power Purchase Agreement (“PPA&rdqu... more

Ørsted Seeking Syndicated Loan for Offshore Wind Power Project

published: 2018-08-10 13:21 | editor et_editor | category: News

Ørsted has reportedly started preparatory work for solicitation of a syndicated loan worth billions of NT dollars for an offshore wind-farm project in 2019, with the aim of completing grid connection by 2021. &O... more

Winning Bid Prices in Taiwan’s Latest Offshore Wind Auction Are Much Lower Than Expected

published: 2018-07-04 16:38 | editor et_editor | category: News

Taiwan has set an ambitious target of establishing 5.5GW of offshore wind generation capacity by 2025, and this capacity quota is being allocated via a competitive bidding process. On 22 June, Denmark’s Ø... more