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Taiwan floats idea of dual-use solar

Taiwan’s land scarcity poses a challenge to achieving renewable energy goals, making dual-use approaches such as agrivoltaics and fishery-solar arrays critical to deployment. There are a number of obstacles to overcome for that to happen, as Brian Publicover explains.

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Brian Publicover

07 Feb 2025

Taiwan aims to increase its solar generation capacity by more than 5 GW in 2025, with plans for 40 GW to 60 GW by 2050. | Photo: David Hsieh/Flickr

Taiwan faces a significant challenge to accelerate its renewable energy transition: limited land for large-scale solar projects. Dual-use PV solutions, such as agrivoltaics and fishery-solar integration, are potential ways to generate energy while ensuring sustainable land use.One key theme that emerged at the Energy Taiwan & Net-Zero Taiwan trade fair in October 2024 was the …

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