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Taiwan’s Government Faces Increasing Costs of Dismantling No. 4 Nuclear Power Plant and Selling Its Fuel Rods

published: 2018-07-13 14:11

The shutdown of Taiwan’s Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant (aka the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant or the No. 4 Nuclear Power Plant) appears to be official with the shipments of unused fuel rods from the plant to the US starting on ... more

In 2017, Taiwan's Power Emission Factor Was 0.554 Kg CO2e/kWh

published: 2018-07-12 10:27

The Bureau of Energy, from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, published the revised results of the power emission factor for the year 2017. In Taiwan, each kWh's carbon dioxide emission was 0.554 Kg carbon dioxide equivalent... more

Taiwan’s Fourth Nuclear Plant Is History

published: 2018-07-11 14:40

Having been in preservation for three years, Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant has been scrapped, following shipment of first batch of 80 fuel rods back to the supplier on June 4, which ends the decades-long dispute over the pro... more

PV Power Devices in Penghu Succumb to Salt Damage

published: 2018-07-10 11:25

PV power systems installed on offshore island Penghu, at airport and fishing port, among others, have been dismantled for repair and reinforcement, due to serious corrosion of frames caused by salt damage, only less than fi... more

Germany’s Experimental Fusion Reactor Achieves Performance Breakthrough With Graphite Tiles

published: 2018-07-06 15:36

Though a controversial idea, power generation by nuclear fusion reactions continues to draw interest from the scientific community. The Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP), which is a major research center in... more

Taiwan’s Solar Companies Cut Work Days and Production to Prepare for Market Downturn

published: 2018-07-06 15:21

The latest changes in China’s solar policies and feed-in tariff scheme have severely impacted the operations of photovoltaic (PV) product manufacturers located in Taiwan. Following the announcement by the island’s PV cell s... more

Longi Sells Off Distributed PV Power Assets

published: 2018-07-06 15:10

Chint New Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chint Electrics, will buy out 17 distributed PV power assets from Longi Green Energy totaling 106.3 MW in capacity at 703 million yuan, announced Chint Group on July 2, accordi... more

Toshiba's Wafer Foundry Raises Capacity of Semiconductor by 1.5 Times, in Order to Compete for EV Market Shares

published: 2018-07-05 12:04

According to Nikkei News on July 1, the market share of electronic vehicles (EV) has expanded, so electronics giants in Japan (such as Toshiba) have aggressively increased their investment on capacities of EV semicondu... more

Rumor Busted! Panasonic Expressed Willingness to Re-invest in Tesla Gigafactory

published: 2018-07-05 11:55

Rumor has it that the battery giant Panasonic might not re-invest in Tesla's Gigafactory for the sake of investment risk, according to the Japanese media. By contrast, Reuters broke news that Panasonic said on July 2 that u... more

Hyundai Forays Into Energy-Storage Market

published: 2018-07-05 10:35

Hyundai Motor announced in June decision to foray into the battery energy-storage market, via collaboration with Greensmith, a energy-storage software provider under the auspices of Finnish dynamic-system firm Wärtsilä, dis... more

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