Growing up in a poor village in the mountains of central Taiwan, Robert Tsai would have to walk more than two hours to bring buckets of clean drinking water back to their family home.
In February 2022, it said it was terminating the contract. Sapura complained that it had been misled about the state of the soil at the Yunlin offshore wind farm site.
OEG Renewables is continuing its expansion into the Asia-Pacific renewables markets, with further opportunities beckoning in Japan and South Korea
Synera Renewable Energy Group, a Taiwan-based offshore wind developer, is in talks over potential deals across Asia as it seeks to diversify beyond its home market.
A Mitsui official, Ryo Zushiden, said the Hai Long project was one of the company’s “most important investments in the renewable energy sector”.
DEME will use the vessel, via a joint venture with shipbuilder CSBC, to install wind farms offshore Taiwan. Construction of the Green Jade was a first for Taiwan.
The Turriff-headquartered ACE Winches has secured deals for work on renewables projects in Europe and Asia with a combined value of seven figures.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen last week signed a major climate change law that introduces a net-zero carbon target for 2050 and a carbon fee system for large emitters.
Siemens Gamesa and Hai Long Offshore Wind Project signed two agreements at the Energy Taiwan trade fair in Taipei on Thursday marking Siemens biggest deal in the country.
Chevron (NYSE:CVX) has safely delivered its first shipment of offset-paired liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo to CPC Taiwan’s terminal at Kaohsiung from the Gorgon project in Australia, the US giant said Thursday.
Danish offshore wind developer Orsted (CPH:ORSTED) is at risk of getting caught up in a potential Taiwan Straits crisis as tensions in the region rose steeply following the visit of US House of Representatives Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, to Taipei, on 2-3 August.
Danish wind developer Orsted has opened what it says is the largest offshore wind operations and maintenance (O&M) hub in Asia Pacific to support its Greater Changhua wind farms offshore Taiwan. Significantly, it is the first operations hub it has built outside Europe.
The coal plus renewables energy transition led by Asia Pacific’s largest growth markets – China and India – is gathering speed. Significantly, it is a lot cheaper than the natural gas plus renewables path followed by the EU and US to lower emissions.
US engineering company Bechtel has started construction on a third phase development at CPC’s Taichung LNG import terminal, aimed at delivering two new LNG storage tanks each with 180,000 m3 storage capacity, which will make them the largest in Taiwan.
Spain’s BlueFloat Energy plans to enter Taiwan’s third offshore wind market auction with a proposed 1GW-plus floating project.
Danish offshore wind developer Orsted has successfully generated first power from the Greater Changhua 2a offshore wind project in Taiwan. Significantly, the development is the largest of its kind offshore Taiwan and Orsted’s first large-scale offshore wind farm in Asia Pacific.
A consortium led by Japan’s JGC has won a construction deal for LNG terminal facilities in Taiwan from state-backed CPC. Significantly, JGC is hoping to win follow-up work in Taiwan as the country expands its LNG infrastructure.
Japanese shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), Toho Gas and Hokuriku Electric Power, will buy a 25% share in the 128 MW Formosa I offshore wind project in Taiwan from Macquaries’ Green Investment Group, which is exiting the country’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm.
Scottish Development International (SDI) will lead Scotland’s largest ever offshore wind trade mission to Taiwan this month. A delegation of 16 Scottish companies specialising in offshore wind project development, construction, installation, operations, and maintenance will take part in Wind Energy Asia, Taiwan’s leading wind industry supply chain trade show. It will be held at the Kaohsiung Exhibition Centre from 9 to 11 March, where Scotland will have a pavilion for the first time.
Orsted has announced that Matthias Bausenwein will return to Europe for family reasons and take on a new role outside of Orsted. He will therefore step down from his position as president of Asia-Pacific and chairman of Orsted Taiwan on 20 January.
Drydocks World has completed a conversion project for Boskalis, transforming a ship into the Bokalift 2 crane vessel.
Genel Energy has signed a farm-out deal with OPIC Somaliland Corp. (OSC), backed by Taiwan’s CPC Corp. on a block in Somaliland.
Oil and gas giant TotalEnergies (Paris:TTE) (LSE:TTE) (NYSE:TTE) has achieved first power generation from offshore wind.
US engineering firm Bechtel expects at least $10 billion worth of business opportunities in Taiwan over the next decade as the island makes an aggressive push to cut back on coal and slash emissions, reported Nikkei Asia.
Vietnam has won a key deal to build two substations for the Hai Long offshore wind project in Taiwan. The contract award, announced today, marks the largest offshore substation deal for a Taiwanese project to date, and the first in Vietnam.