When J.W. Kuo takes up his new role as Taiwan’s economics minister next month, he will need to move fast if he is to salvage one of the government’s signature projects.
Policy conflict and misguided goals threaten to sink outgoing President Tsai Ing-wen’s hopes of achieving renewable energy targets and it will be Kuo’s job to either kill that dream or rewrite existing policy to get plans back on track.
Multiple phases of offshore wind projects have revealed cracks in government policy.
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