# Taiwan awards large offshore-wind capacity under Tsai

Date: 2018

## The fact

In 2018 Taiwan awarded large offshore-wind capacity in a two-phase auction-and-grid-allocation path as Tsai’s energy mix tried to replace nuclear.

## Context

MOEA and Bureau of Energy implemented. Developers finance. She did not pour the foundations. An award is still a dated renewable-build instrument with fishery and grid lags.

Nuclear-free 2025 is the neighbouring exit row. 2022 blackouts are a neighbouring reliability-cost row.

The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles. She does not write a PRC statute, a US NDAA, a TSMC board minute, or a 2026 Lai cabinet order. She left office on 20 May 2024; [Lai Ching-te](/people/lai-ching-te) is president. A blackout is not a finding that every reactor was thereby safe. A Pelosi transit is not a PRC missile. Allegation of a stolen 2018 referendum is not stored as a completed steal. An indigenous apology is not a land-title gazette. A New Southbound brand is not an FTA by itself. A 2024 LY split is not a finding that the 2020 mandate was void.

## Evidence and sources

Ministry of Economic Affairs Taiwan carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2018 offshore-wind capacity awards under her energy path, independently reported.

Not established: that every MW was generating in 2018, or that blackouts were thereby solved.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

MOEA awarded. Developers built with lag. Grid operators integrated.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Taiwan awards large offshore-wind capacity under Tsai, not a later speech about Taiwan awards large offshore-wind capacity under Tsai.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Taiwan awards large offshore-wind capacity under Tsai on 2018-04-30 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of Economic Affairs Taiwan communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Taiwan awards large offshore-wind capacity under Tsai into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Cabinet set the nuclear-exit-and-RE mix. MOEA awarded. Developers built with lag. Grid operators integrated. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tsai Ing-wen: https://factrail.ai/people/tsai-ing-wen

## Drivers

- Renewable capacity buildout: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-renewable-buildout
- Decarbonization and climate-mitigation policy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/env-decarbonization-policy

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-windpower-idUSKBN1I10K4
- https://www.moea.gov.tw/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-tsai-wind-2018