{"id":2054,"date":"2023-03-15T14:21:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2023-08-29T12:11:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:11:57","slug":"solar-and-wind-power-hit-a-new-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/solar-and-wind-power-hit-a-new-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar and wind power hit a new milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) recently reported that solar and wind power generated almost one-third of Taiwan&#8217;s electricity, setting a new record.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Electricity from solar and wind amounted to 7 gigawatts, or 31.53 percent of the power generated, which surpassed the previous record of 31.21 percent set in January 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taipower attributed the milestone to fair weather conditions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taiwan also hit a milestone after solar and wind power generated more than 15 percent of the country&#8217;s electricity for seven consecutive days, according to Taipower.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The government aims to boost green power generation to 15 percent of the nation&#8217;s energy mix by 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taipower data showed that gas remains the nation&#8217;s largest power source, generating around 33 percent of its energy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The growth in renewable power generation could also be linked to the installation of more solar panels and wind turbines in Taiwan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Last year, the country generated 20.08 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity from solar and wind, amounting to about 8 percent of all power generated.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Ministry of Economic Affairs expects renewable sources to produce an additional 2 gigawatts of electricity this year, equal to the power generated by two nuclear reactors.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taipower&#8217;s Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs Tseng Wen-sheng, who is acting chairman, said he does not expect the retirement of a nuclear power plant to cause a shortage in the power supply, as increases in renewable energy would offset the impact.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) recently reported that solar and wind power generated almost one-third of Taiwan&#8217;s electricity, setting a new record. Electricity from solar and wind amounted to 7 gigawatts,&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7921,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/7921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aatworld.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}