Cooler weather has brought a return of stable power supplies while rainfall over the weekend has partially replenished reservoirs.

Premier Su Tseng-chang says the government will be taking steps to improve the national power grid and step-up risk management policies in the aftermath of 3 March islandwide blackout

Taiwan Power Company's annual summer electricity pricing scheme will take effect this Thursday and remain in place until 30 September.

Tai-Power says its supply system flashed a "yellow" warning light due to high demand on Monday, after a coal-fired generator in Taichung suffered a breakdown.

Taiwan's state-run Taipower says that from 1 June, electric car owners will be charged a flat-month rate of NT$262.5 for household electricity

The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) says it will review electricity rates next Monday

Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) announced its goal to break even this year if the Legislative Yuan approves a NT$100 billion subsidy.

State-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) is denying reports that it plans to hike electricity rates this year.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs says high-voltage electricity customers will pay an extra month of higher summer rates from next year.

Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) will be raising electricity rates for a range of users, depending on their level of usage. Starting from 1 April, electricity prices will be raised by 3% for households which consume more than 700 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per month, and 10% for households using over 1,000 kWh per month.

The government has ordered Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) to submit an improvement plan within a week following supply shortages that have resulted in two large-scale power outages over the past week.

Deputy economics Minister Tseng Wen-sheng has been asked to explain Taipower's recent and substantial financial losses.

Onshore wind energy has received little attention in recent years but with no end in sight to the chronic shortage of green energy capacity, companies are finally realising that it is by far the cheapest, most practical and technically feasible renewable energy option available today

By Duncan Levine

Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) is proposing a ten-year NT$188-billion project to enhance the resilience of the national grid.

Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) says its annual summer electricity pricing scheme will begin on 1 June and remain in place until 30 September.

The Supreme Administrative Court has overruled previous rulings and found nine local independent power producers guilty of engaging in concerted practices in a drawn-out fair trade case

The Taichung power plant will phase out its coal-fired power generation facilities by the end of 2034, one year ahead of schedule, transitioning to natural gas to reduce Taiwan's main source of air pollution.

An additional budget allocation from the cabinet is expected to help Taiwan Power Company cut its significant deficits to NT$9.3 billion (US$287 million) in 2024.

Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua has been asked to stay on to supervise the implementation of plans to strengthen Taiwan's power grid, after asking the premier to discipline her for a massive power outage last week

The first batch of allocated projects for Taiwan's offshore wind Round 3.1 concluded at the end of June 2023 with two project owners having signalled that they signed administrative contracts by the deadline and three further project owners obtaining an extension of two months, until the end of August to find a solution to sign off. This will mean that the capacity of the first projects to be connected to the grid by 2026/27 will fall somewhere between 995MW and 2,335MW, short of the 3,000MW that had been awarded at the end of last year. Taiwan's shortage of renewables and the challenge of achieving its short and midterm net zero targets will thus continue. A timely Round 3.2 will offer a new opportunity to catch up by 2028/29 but there is still work to do to attract bidders.

By Jason Wang and Raoul Kubitschek

The ECCT and Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) jointly released the "Paving the Way to Net-Zero Power Report".

Energy storage systems are an essential element in Taiwan's energy transition

By Bart Linssen

Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) executives say they are ready to take responsibility for Thursday's islandwide power outage - with the company's Chairman Yang Wei-fu and President Chung Bin-li saying they will step down over the incident

Taipower Chairman Tseng Wen-sheng says he believes Taiwan needs an efficient energy market if it hopes to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

The cabinet has approved an additional subsidy of NT$100 billion for Taiwan Power Company (Taipower).

Taiwan Power Company says scorching hot weather sent electricity usage soaring to a record high of 41.18 million kilowatts on Tuesday.

The ECCT's Low Carbon Initiative (LCI) cooperated with Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), to arrange the forum to discuss technologies and strategies to improve energy efficiency, renewable energy trading and corporate Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in Taiwan. The forum featured two keynote speeches and two sessions on the topics of “Holistic energy saving strategy and efficiency programmes” and “Corporate renewable purchase agreement (PPA) structures and case studies”, featuring presentations by speakers from government and industry.

Ministry of Economic Affairs Minister Wang Mei-hua is defending the government's decision to hike electricity rates as she faces calls to justify the increases before the Legislative Yuan.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs says Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) will be raising electricity rates for industrial users from 16 October.

Taipower has announced that it will be recommending that residential electricity rates are raised for the first time in 20 years when the Electricity Price Review Committee meets later this month to discuss possible price adjustments.

Taiwan's state-run power company, Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) says the No. 1 generator at its second nuclear power plant will be shut down for good and enter its decommissioning stage this evening.