{"id":3495139,"date":"2022-04-28T10:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T09:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/global-renewable-energy-market-to-grow-8-5-annually-in-coming-years-copy\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:49:36","slug":"taiwan-to-invest-in-green-energy-smart-grids-to-reach-net-zero-emissions-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/taiwan-to-invest-in-green-energy-smart-grids-to-reach-net-zero-emissions-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan to invest in green energy, smart grids to reach net-zero emissions goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1372.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday the government will focus on research and development in green energy, smart grids and energy storage equipment in its push to cut carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Long-term carbon reduction relies on new technologies to produce more breakthroughs,&#8221; Tsai said at a sustainability forum to mark Earth Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Taiwan&#8217;s industries are export-oriented. We need to break into the global green supply chain,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taiwan said last year it intended to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 and the government has pledged to spend NT$900 billion ($30.7 billion) by 2030 towards that end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This week, the cabinet approved a draft amendment of climate legislation that includes the 2050 net-zero goal and the introduction of a carbon pricing scheme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tsai said that by 2050, renewable energy should account for more than 60% of Taiwan&#8217;s power supply, while hydrogen should account for around 10% and thermal power generation with carbon capture around 20%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By comparison, in 2020, coal provided 45% of Taiwan&#8217;s electricity while liquefied natural gas provided around 36%, government data shows.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fuente: <\/b>Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Change News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3495169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3495139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3495171,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495139\/revisions\/3495171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3495169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}