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Taiwan is now home to what is being billed as the territory’s largest ground-mounted solar plant, an installation modelled after an at-risk bird that migrates nearby every year. Developer Vena Energy announced this week the operational launch of its 70MW Mingus solar plant in Chiayi County, a three-hour drive south from Taiwan’s capital Taipei. The 100GWh-a-year plant will, the firm said in a statement, bring enough power to sustain 28,000 homes and help slash greenhouse gas emissions by 60,000 tonnes per year. "We are excited to continue supporting Taiwan’s goals for reaching 20GW of renewable power generation by 2025” Nitin Apte, CEO of Vena Energy, remarked in a statement.  The project, meant to bring Taiwan an annual 380,000 litres in water savings, is not the first to lay claim to the top ground-mounted PV spot in the island territory. Earlier this year, state-run utility Taipower broke ground on a 100MW plant by an industrial park near Taichung city. A separate 100MW pipeline by Sunseap and Pacific Green is in the works. The downstream milestones come after upstream fortunes took a turn for the worse, with new government policies meant to help manufacturers catch up with rivals in mainland China. Bird's-eye view on conservation challenges The 195,000-module installation, covering nearly 80 hectares, was designed so that the silhouette of the black-faced spoonbill would be visible when observed from high above. Construction of Mingus – requiring 600 local workers – was shortened to minimise the impacts over the spoonbill, classified as endangered by global conservation body IUCN. The species, the IUCN fears, risks facing “very rapid” population decline over the next three generations as habitats are lost to industrial development, land reclamation and pollution. Speaking after Mingus was powered up, Vena Energy Taiwan head Sam Ong – who is also group-wide CFO – said natural preservation had been an “utmost priority” with the 70MW project. Vena, Ong claimed, had committed “significant resources” to speed up deployment and limit disturbances to the spoonbill's migration, which sees it reach the Chiayi salt plains every winter. The firm explained it had cooperated with green groups to monitor resident and migratory bird species in the project’s vicinity, to better map out migratory routes of the spoonbill. “[We] reserved an area of approximately 24.1-hectares for the Ecological Conservation Area, so that local wildlife including waterfowls can flourish,” Ong commented.

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Taiwan-based Heliartec is using a BIPV service for exteriors that can replicate all-natural wood forms as well as structures, while likewise additionally imitating various sort of appearances from standard structure products such as rock, block, stucco, and also marble. The business stated the remedy can likewise be developed to match personalized patterns developed by developers and also designers. The Aesthetic Energy Panels (AEP) can function as tinted laminated safety glass as well as change typical cladding in the aerated exteriors of structures, according to the producer. It is generating the unique panels together with a number of making companions in Taiwan as well as China. " At the minute, we are using our OEM companions' abilities," the business's handling supervisor, Andre Feenstra, informed pv magazine. "The making companions should have a minimal yearly capability of 100.000 square meters, which guarantees quick development." The business has several circulation networks in a number of EU nations, such as Norway and also Italy, and also is likewise existing in the Benelux area. "We are targeting various other European markets and also we are likewise preparing to increase dispersing networks in the U.S., Japan, as well as China," Feenstra included. Their cost is essentially equivalent to conventional structure products, such as safety and security steel, glass, and also timber, Feenstra declared, without supplying certain numbers. The business attained a timber shade by utilizing ceramic inks, thawed as well as strengthened on the internal side of the front glass under high-temperature therapy over 700 ° C. "The tinting layer is sandwiched by 2 items of solidified glass as well as well-protected versus the weathering procedure," Feenstra clarified. The side of the dual glazing is likewise secured as well as bordered by butyl rubber given by a concealed German provider to supply high resistance versus moisture. "This additional protects the capability of the monocrystalline cell range within," Feenstra stated. The components were not enveloped with EVA movie to stay clear of the danger of delamination. "We utilized a polyvinyl butyral (PVB) movie which has actually been extensively embraced and also verified amongst the structure sector to enhance its sturdiness as well as integrity," Feenstra discussed. The panels are readily available in 4 various timber shades, consisting of oak as well as walnut, along with 2 various other variations. They differ in size from 60 centimeters to 240 centimeters, with sizes varying from 30 centimeters to 120 centimeters. Depending upon the dimension, the panels can supply power results of 90 W to 150 W per square meter. Heliartec Solutions stated recently that the AEP won the Red Dot: Best of the Best Product Design 2020 honor. The competition is open to international suppliers and also developers whose items are made under commercial manufacturing procedures. Heliartec Solutions was founded in 2017 in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It safeguarded financial backing from Taiwan's National Development Fund in 2015.

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Taiwan’s government risks failing to make good on solar growth pledges unless it acts to clear structural hurdles such as land shortages, industry operators have warned at Energy Taiwan 2019. The 20GW-by-2025 installed PV capacity target touted by top officials as they opened the Taipei conference on Wednesday dominated the talk in the hours that followed, becoming a recurring theme of conversations at exhibitor stands. Speaking to visiting reporters, various component manufacturers linked a rise in orders from Taiwanese downstream players to the solar goal, adopted in 2016. Frank Lu, vice chair of PV cabling and connector supplier KS Terminal, reported a jump in domestic customers. AU Optronics (AUO) Corporation, formerly a pureplay PV maker but today also a developer, claimed to have seen benefits from the 20GW target on the upstream front – with domestic orders on the rise – but also the downstream, amid claims ground-mounted growth will kick in in one or two years. Daniel Lee, special assistant at Taiwanese PV body TPVIA, told journalists the current government can be counted on to remain a solar champion. The upcoming decommissioning of Taiwan’s decades-old nuclear fleet has fuelled president Tsai Ing-wen’s interest in PV, he said. According to Lee, political support will likely not waver whatever the outcome of next year’s presidential polls, set to pit reelection-seeking Ing-wen versus opposition hopeful Han Kuo-yu. The latter has yet to produce a manifesto but will likely not oppose the clean energy agenda, Lee said. Short-term roll-out expectations dampen Judging by the Energy Taiwan 2019 conference floor talk, however, the positive response to the 20GW-by-2025 target does not correlate with unwavering faith that it will be delivered within six years, as the government intends. Views diverged between AUO’s Energy Business vice president SH Liao – who described the goal as “challenging but doable” – and Alan Lin, a director at energy and technology group TATUNG who works on corporate marketing and overseas business development. “As of June this year, the total installed capacity is 3.4GW so you can see the gap with [the 2025 target]. Either the private sector gets more aggressive, or the government gives more incentives, or it will be difficult,” said Lin, speaking from his firm’s exhibitor stand. Max Lin, a project manager at TATUNG’s solar unit TATUNG Forever Energy, responded with a “no” when asked whether Taiwan’s 20GW solar ambitions will materialise by 2025. Addressing land scarcity will require “more time”, said Lin as he walked reporters through his firm’s PV portfolio. The government may plan to roll out 3.7GW of PV in 2020 but TPVIA’s Lee said his association expects a 1GW figure, or 500-to-800MW based on the most conservative forecasts. He admitted these roll-out rates are driving some to questioning whether 20GW-by-2025 is attainable. “Why not more? Based on my understanding, it’s not about policy nor feed-in tariffs, it’s about human nature,” he argued. “Frankly speaking, when investors come to me and say they're looking at a 10MW project my answer is – well, we'll need to speak to the landowner.” Squeezing 20GW of PV on a jam-packed island That Taiwan’s solar ambitions may be undone by a single conundrum – can a small, densely populated and topographically complex island find space for a 20GW solar power fleet – was a premise that loomed over much of the discussions with industry players. The government, TPVIA’s Daniel Lee pointed out, is working to alleviate the shortage by releasing some of the land it owns. However, he added, the fact remains that the majority of sites are still in the hands of individuals PV developers must negotiate with. Exactly how tricky the interaction can be was illustrated by a utility-scale PV project TATUNG Forever Energy is looking to deploy in the Tainan area. As Max Lin noted, the 130MW scheme cannot go ahead until all 30 landowners involved agree to sell, with only one-in-two swinging in favour so far. According to Lin, his firm has filed “many applications” for the project but has yet to secure the go-ahead from the central government, even if local authorities have already given their green light. “We’ve put so much money, people on the ground,” Lin said. “This is a political issue.” As several industry operators noted, land-deprived PV players might be wise to set their sights on different targets. Some mentioned contaminated farming land – typically easier to procure – while others pointed at, and claimed to be working on, floating solar projects. From TATUNG’s 27.12MWp project to AUO’s 6MW venture, the projects going down the floating route are on the rise. “Where two years ago there weren’t many projects, today we think there is a market for [PV-powered} irrigation, but it will stil require regulatory change,” said Alan Lin.  Costs in the land of typhoons and low power prices Another question doing the rounds at Energy Taiwan 2019 was whether the economic fundamentals are there for Taiwan to install over 16GW of solar within six years. According to TPVIA’s Lee, cost drops have already driven some in the country to rethink perceptions of PV as an expensive venture. Despite this year’s feed-in tariff (FiT) cuts, solar projects still enjoy 20-year payments of around 13-15 dollar cents per kWh. The rates are even higher for small rooftop projects (18 dollar cents), floating plants (up to 16 cents) and enjoy a further 6% boost if plants use local, certified modules. For solar ventures, a complication lies however in Taiwan’s low power prices, a circumstance some conference attendees attribute to government intervention. Change is afoot, however: Economic Affairs minister Shen Jong-Chin was quoted in March anticipating rises of up to 29% by 2025. KS Terminal’s Frank Lu believes the prediction will come to pass. “I think prices will rise very quickly,” he told reporters. “They have to, because they are too low. Government tried to interfere in the past because our income is not as high as other countries.” Another of Taiwan’s trademark features – its exposure to severe earthquakes, typhoons and other natural hazards – can also impact the economics of solar plays. According to Tatung’s Alan Lin, this is a factor that directly impacts firms’ work on the ground. “In Taiwan we’ve got very good resources for renewables but also unpredictable conditions due to natural hazards, which raises costs,” he said. “When you do rooftops, for instance, they have to be subjected to thorough testing.”

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