Taiwan Increases Offshore Wind Tariff 30 Percent

Paul Gipe, Contributor
February 03, 2011 | 2 Comments

DigiTimes reports that new feed-in tariffs posted by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs have increased offshore wind tariffs by more than 30%.

While DigiTimes's report emphasized the cuts in solar photovoltaic tariffs, Taiwan has substantially raised its tariffs for wind energy.

The new tariff, says DigiTimes, is 5.56 TWD ($0.192 USD) per kWh, 33% more than the previous tariff of 4.2 TWD ($0.145 USD) per kWh.

The new Taiwanese feed-in tariff for offshore wind now rivals that of Ontario's offshore feed-in tariff of $0.19 CAD per kWh.

Taiwan also raised the tariffs for on shore wind from 2.38 TWD ($0.82 USD) to 2.61 TWD ($0.09 USD) per kWh, an increase of nearly 10%.

Taiwan also offers one of the more attractive geothermal energy tariffs in the world at 4.80 TWD ($0.165 USD) per kWh. Only Germany and France offer higher geothermal tariffs.

2 Comments

Richard .
February 5, 2011

Good that Taiwan put focus on off-shore wind. Taiwan has excellent wind condition in its waters. Looking forward to see it being used.

ANONYMOUS
February 4, 2011

Typo
"from 2.38 TWD ($0.82 USD) to 2.61 TWD ($0.09 USD) per kWh,"
shouldn't that be $0.082 USD?

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Paul Gipe has written extensively about renewable energy for both the popular and trade press. He has also lectured widely on wind energy and how to minimize its impact on the environment and the communities of which it is a part. For his...