Featured in Features — Why Taiwan's energy transition keeps falling short
My article — “Why Taiwan’s energy transition keeps falling short” — opens today’s Features supplement of Taiwan’s leading English-language daily, the Taipei Times.
The argument
The real bottleneck in Taiwan’s energy transition is neither geological nor financial. The wind and geothermal potential is there — an estimated 33 GW of geothermal capacity — and so is the capital. What is missing is the institutional capacity to execute: administrative continuity, stable regulatory signals, and coordination between public and private actors.
A two-part series
This is the first installment of a two-part series. The second will be published on June 19, tackling the uncomfortable question: can Taiwan deliver on that follow-through without drawing on Japan’s model of inter-agency energy planning?
Sources and acknowledgements
The article draws on field research and analysis by scholars published in Taiwan Insight, as well as insights from Taiwanese actors working in the geothermal sector. Many thanks to the Taipei Times Features desk.