green energy

To achieve the target of utilizing 100% renewable energy and carbon neutrality at all locations around the world by 2030, Delta announced today (9th) that it will be signing a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with TCC Green Energy Corporation (TCC Green Energy) on purchasing 7.2MW of wind power from the Taiwan Cogeneration Cooperation, which provides roughly 19 million kWh of green electricity for Delta each year. ...  more

Tokyo 2020 had been postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has become the first postponed Olympic game in history. Apart from hosting the highest level of competition among sports elites of various countries once every four years, the Olympic Games are also a means to elevate international spotlight, and Japan has laid down several targets as the host. ...  more

As part of its latest attempt at dominating the green energy market and hot on the heels of its successful “distribution renewable energy equipment” certification by Taipower, major industrial computer manufacturer Advantech recently announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Taiwanese AI startup thingnario. ...  more

Major IPC supplier Advantech announced that its smart wireless industrial edge gateway solution has been successfully certified by TPC, and will connect with the distribution-level renewable energy management system of the latter in the future to achieve visualization of renewable energy though edge communication computing, as well as smart energy regulation and management. ...  more

Cloud server provider Wiwynn announced December 28th the official completion of the signing on the green power purchase contract with power selling company Mr. Watt. This signing of purchase contract allows Wiwynn to become the first information service provider in Taiwan to obtain comprehensive environmental benefits by directly purchasing green power from power selling companies through PPA subsequent to the amendment of the Electricity Industry Act. Simultaneously, Wiwynn is also expected to begin using 10% of green power for its headquarters in Taipei from 2021. ...  more

On December 17, Taiwan’s ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) unveiled the SPIN Lab, an R&D platform for building-use green energy, the first of its kind in Taiwan and the third in the world. As part of the unveiling, ITRI also showcased its “energy conservation demonstration house” (henceforth “the house”), taking participants on a trip through Tainan’s green building energy research. ...  more

Ten years ago, before the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the green energy industry was still in its infancy. ...  more

Energy Taiwan is currently exhibiting at Hall 1 of the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center from today (14th) to 16th, and has concatenated the three major energy of solar, wind, and smart energy storage, with a total of 500 booths. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen pointed out during the opening ceremony that renewable energy in Taiwan has experienced a surging development during her 4 years of tenure, and that Taiwan has returned to being an essential hot spot for global investment of renewable energy. ...  more

As the leader in aggressive implementation of carbon reduction economy, the EU adheres to the philosophy of greening, even amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic, by drafting a post-pandemic economic revitalization program, and claims to conform to a “green recovery”, which signals that greening will be executed alongside the revitalization program. ...  more

The cost of solar and wind power has fallen steeply in recent years. On a broader scale, the International Renewable Energy Agency, or IRENA, indicates that the installation cost of green energy is, on the whole, declining year over year, with land-based wind power expected to reach US$0.043/kWh and solar power reaching $0.039/kWh in 2021. These rates are 18% and 42% lower than 2019 figures, respectively. ...  more