Taiwan

Taiwan – replacing nuclear with renewable baseload

In Taiwan, Minesto is carrying out site development with the purpose to establish the first tidal energy arrays with Minesto’s technology in Asia. The ambition is also to demonstrate renewable baseload generation from the continuously-flowing Kuroshio current. The conditions for extracting marine energy in Taiwan are very good due to access to both tidal streams and continuous ocean currents. Today, 97.5 percent of the country’s total energy use comes from imported fossil fuels. Taiwan has a well-developed industrial infrastructure and a number of stakeholders in the private and public sectors are active in marine energy.

Minesto in Asia

In Southeast Asia alone, 45 million people live without electricity and many millions more live with unreliable supply, making them dependent on expensive diesel-generated electricity. Marine energy and Minesto’s Microgrid power plants have the potential to meet a substantial share of the need for reliable and clean electricity supply in this part of the world.

Minesto’s establishment in Taiwan also provides a step-stone to supporting a commercial roll-out throughout Asia of arrays of Minesto’s utility-scale kite systems.