Taiwan government plans to build 6.5 GW solar power stations before 2020 and a total of 20 GW by 2025.
Relative research indicated that there are strong solar energy potential in all country. Some research further pointed out that Taipei City as the area with the weakest solar irradiance, the solar energy potential on the rooftop is still benefitial and can compete the energy consumption in certain circumstances.
Here is a table showing the growth of solar power capacity and generation in Taiwan since 2000.
Statistics
Taiwan's installed
solar power capacity and
generation
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in recent years is shown in the table below:
[Bureau of Energy, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan:Renewable electricit]
CapacityGeneration
See also
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Solar power
Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic e ...
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Photovoltaics
Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially us ...
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Growth of photovoltaics
Worldwide growth of photovoltaics has been close to exponential between 1992 and 2018.
During this period of time, photovoltaics (PV), also known as solar PV, evolved from a niche market of small-scale applications to a mainstream electricity ...
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Energy in Taiwan
Taiwan relies on imports for almost 98% of its energy in 2016, which leaves the island's energy supply vulnerable to external disruption. In order to reduce this dependence, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Republic of China), Ministry of Econom ...
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Renewable energy in Taiwan
Renewable energy in Taiwan contributed to 8.7% of national electricity generation as of end of 2013. The total installed capacity of renewable energy in Taiwan by the end of 2013 was 3.76 GW. As of 2020, the Taiwan government aims for a renewabl ...
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
Solar power in Taiwan