Energy Transition in Taiwan - Revision history

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 | style="text-align: center" | Solar
-| style="text-align: center" | <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="e24Kjd">6.620</span></span>GW<br/>
+| style="text-align: center" | <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="e24Kjd">6.623</span></span>GW<br/>
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 ! scope="col" | <span style="font-size: 13.6px">Type of Renewables</span>
 ! scope="col" | <span style="font-size: 13.6px">Current Capacity</span>
-<span style="font-size: 13.6px">(as of Apr. 2021)</span><br/>
+<span style="font-size: 13.6px">(as of Jun. 2021)</span><br/>
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-| style="text-align: center" | <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="e24Kjd">6.125</span></span>GW<br/>
+| style="text-align: center" | <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="e24Kjd">6.620</span></span>GW<br/>
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 | style="text-align: center" | <span style="font-size: 13.6px">December 2021</span>
-| style="text-align: center" | <span style="font-size: 13.6px">Final Fuel Cycle before Shutting Down</span>
+| style="text-align: center" | <span style="font-size: 13.6px">Permanently Shut Down</span>
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 ! scope="col" | <span style="font-size: 13.6px">Type of Renewables</span>
 ! scope="col" | <span style="font-size: 13.6px">Current Capacity</span>
-<span style="font-size: 13.6px">(as of Mar. 2021)</span><br/>
+<span style="font-size: 13.6px">(as of Apr. 2021)</span><br/>
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 | style="text-align: center" | Solar
-| style="text-align: center" | <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="e24Kjd">6.001</span></span>GW<br/>
+| style="text-align: center" | <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="e24Kjd">6.125</span></span>GW<br/>
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-| style="text-align: center" | 0.710GW
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 An important indicator of whether the expansion plans will go accordingly to the plan is the achieving rates of the mid-term goal by 2020. For example, solar should reach 6.5 GW by that year; in the end due to the corona pandemic Taiwan fell short of almost 0.7 GW to that goal.
-The government also plans to expand offshore wind capacity 1GW per year between 2026 and 2035, resulting a total capacity of 16 GW by 2035<ref name="經部規劃2026年到2035年，離岸風電10年10GW目標，預期價格將低於平均售電價格"> 經部規劃2026年到2035年，離岸風電10年10GW目標，預期價格將低於平均售電價格, https://www.moea.gov.tw/MNS/populace/news/News.aspx?kind=1&menu_id=40&news_id=87704</ref>. Besides such plan, no further official renewable policy after 2025 is yet announced.
+The government also plans to expand offshore wind capacity 1.5GW per year between 2026 and 2035, resulting a total capacity of 21 GW by 2035<ref name="經部規劃2026年到2035年，離岸風電10年10GW目標，預期價格將低於平均售電價格"> 經部規劃2026年到2035年，離岸風電10年10GW目標，預期價格將低於平均售電價格, https://www.moea.gov.tw/MNS/populace/news/News.aspx?kind=1&menu_id=40&news_id=87704</ref>. Besides such plan, no further official renewable policy after 2025 is yet announced.
 == Coal and Carbon Emission ==
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 Compared to other East Asia countries, this goal was quite ambitious in the beginning. As a reference, previously South Korea only promised to tame its annual carbon emission to around 535&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Million tonnes of CO</span><sub style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">2</sub><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">&nbsp;eq by 2030, which is roughly the same level as 2005<ref>South Korea Climate Tracker, http://climateactiontracker.org/countries/southkorea.html</ref>. However, as neighbor nations started to speed up their commitments to climate action, Taiwan is gradually losing its leading edge on this matter. For example, South Korea has adopted a far more ambitious renewable expansion plan<ref>S. Korea unveils draft plan to foster renewable energy, https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200508002200320?section=search</ref> and the green new deal<ref>South Korea to implement Green New Deal after ruling party election win, https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/04/16/south-korea-implement-green-new-deal-ruling-party-election-win/</ref>; it will also achieve climate neutrality by 2050<ref>South Korea declares climate emergency, sets net zero target for 2050, https://www.eco-business.com/news/south-korea-declares-climate-emergency-sets-net-zero-target-for-2050/?sw-signup=true</ref>. In addition, many of the policy goals in Taiwan still lack integration between governmental departments<ref>加速建構轉型量能，邁向深度低碳社會 「溫室氣體減量推動方案」研擬建議, http://rsprc.ntu.edu.tw/fordownload/1061123/20171123_greenhouse_gas_rfckLReduction.pdf</ref>.</span><br/>
-<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 emission goals might be achieved, but few environmental groups are satisfied by this short term effect and most call for a "green recovery" after the epidemic fade away<ref>綠色紓困，台灣跟上世界--環境零傷害 投資綠產業, https://www.cet-taiwan.org/info/news/3715</ref>. Luckily, recent discussions of net zero emission by mid century from neighboring nations provide an opportunity for more ambitious reduction goals.</span>
+<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 emission goals might be achieved, but few environmental groups are satisfied by this short term effect and most call for a "green recovery" after the epidemic fade away<ref>綠色紓困，台灣跟上世界--環境零傷害 投資綠產業, https://www.cet-taiwan.org/info/news/3715</ref>. Fortunately, recent discussions of net zero emission by mid century from neighboring nations provide an opportunity for more ambitious reduction goals.</span>
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 <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">The electricity market reform began in 2016 and resulted in the reformation of the Electricity Law(電業法) in January 2017. The reformation of the [https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=J0130032 Renewable Energy Development Act](再生能源發展條例) was also completed in April 2019<ref name="renewable act">再生能源修正草案三讀通過，2025 綠電目標 27GW 入法 ,https://technews.tw/2019/04/15/renewable-energy-2025-27gw/. In the reform of the Renewable Energy Law, the goal of achieving at least 27GW of renewable energy capacity by 2025 was formally legalized.</ref>.</span></span>
-<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Current reformations of the market are just to set the proper environment for renewables to grow. The more controversial parts of the reformation were not discussed and remain uncertain to this date. For example, a main public debate is that whether or not the network utility Taipower should give up its conventional power fleet, and if so, should the new owner(s) be state-owned, municipal, or private owned<ref>電力市場自由化，Yes or No？ 國營／民營是非題之外的修法方向討論 ,https://letsnews.thisistap.com/3347/. This is a thorough review of the debate during the reformation of electricity law.</ref>.&nbsp;</span></span>
+<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Current reformations of the market are just to set the proper environment for renewables to grow. The more controversial parts of the reformation were not discussed and remain uncertain to this date. For example, a main public debate is that whether or not the vertically integrated utility Taipower should give up its conventional power plant fleet, and if so, should the new owner(s) be state-owned, municipal, or private owned<ref>電力市場自由化，Yes or No？ 國營／民營是非題之外的修法方向討論 ,https://letsnews.thisistap.com/3347/. This is a thorough review of the debate during the reformation of electricity law.</ref>.&nbsp;</span></span>
 == <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Lack of Community-Owned Projects and Individual Participation</span></span> ==
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 <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">According to the network operators in Taiwan, most [[Flexibility (Power System)|flexibility requirements]] by 2025 can be dealt without major retrofit of the system; the risk of congestion mainly lies in central Taiwan and therefore the transmission lines there will be strengthened<ref>新能源政策下之電網規劃, a document revealed by Taipower in early December 2017</ref>.</span></span></span><br/>
-<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Below is the power output curve a possible dispatch scheme may result to by summer 2025<ref name="Flexibility, Residual Load , & Re-dispatchment">"Flexibility, Residual Load , & Re-dispatchment", https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uJPcyUXykobIVOE-Bb58nrGyHwfbsc9X</ref>.The hard coal power plants might have to ramp more flexibly inthe future in order to adjust to the residual load variations, and this result to a reduction of coal use to around 26% in this scenario. The carbon emission intensity in this scenario was 0.396 kg CO<sub>2</sub> eq/kWh, very close to the policy goal.</span></span>
+<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Below is the power output curve a possible dispatch scheme may result to by summer 2025<ref name="Flexibility, Residual Load , & Re-dispatchment">"Flexibility, Residual Load , & Re-dispatchment", https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uJPcyUXykobIVOE-Bb58nrGyHwfbsc9X</ref>.The hard coal power plants might have to ramp more flexibly in the future in order to adjust to the residual load variations, and this result to a reduction of coal use to around 26% in this scenario. The carbon emission intensity in this scenario was 0.396 kg CO<sub>2</sub> eq/kWh, very close to the policy goal.</span></span>
 <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">[[File:Simulated VRE Output and Residual Load in Taiwan by summer 2025 (Policy Scenario).png|center|800px|alt=Simulated VRE Output and Residual Load in Taiwan by summer 2025.png]]</span></span>
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+[[File:Assessment of Impacts and Mitigation Approaches on Near Term Coal Reduction and Power System Dispatch of Datan Conventional Gas Terminal.pdf|180px|File:Assessment of Impacts and Mitigation Approaches on Near Term Coal Reduction and Power System Dispatch of Datan Conventional Gas Terminal.pdf|alt=File:Assessment of Impacts and Mitigation Approaches on Near Term Coal Reduction and Power System Dispatch of Datan Conventional Gas Terminal.pdf]]<br/>
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