Taiwan, China ranks 12th in the world in per capita electricity consumption! Pushing energy transition, environmental groups form an alliance to grade each county and city's policies

Regarding the energy transition, the government has declared that it will achieve a nuclear-free homeland by 2025, with the goal of raising the share of natural gas and renewable energy so as to carry out a large-scale shift in the overall power generation mix. But amid the central government's urgent calls, how local governments will cooperate has become a key focus of policy planning; to this end, more than ten environmental groups across Taiwan have formed the "Energy Transition Promotion Alliance," which not only sets out the seven major dilemmas the government faces in the energy transition, but also declares that starting immediately it will evaluate energy conservation and green energy development in each county and city, pushing local governments to take concrete action.

Seven major dilemmas of the energy transition: incomplete regulations, insufficient talent and education, and the lack of a dedicated agency all become obstacles

As for the government's dilemmas in energy policy planning, Wu Cheng-cheng, a researcher at the Green Citizens' Action Alliance, pointed out that in fact none of them can be separated from the "local" level. From participation experience alone, one can find that the regulatory systems of the central and local governments are incomplete, talent and education are insufficient, complete energy data applications have not been made, localities lack dedicated energy agencies, the threshold for public participation in green energy power generation is high, energy-saving measures in the residential and commercial sectors are insufficient, industrial energy efficiency needs improvement, and the generation, transmission, distribution and sale system has not diversified risks, all of which are issues urgently in need of resolution.