Taiwan's Green Energy Output Value to Top NT$1 Trillion by 2015

Taipei, July 5, 2011 (CENS)--In view of the surging interest in green energy following Japan's nuclear power plant incident, Taiwan's green energy industry is poised to experience a round of vigorous growth in the coming years, with its output value expected to top NT$1 trillion by 2015, inducing NT$200 billion of private investment and creating 110,000 job vacancies, said Jerry J.R. Ou, director general of the Bureau of Energy, under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, yesterday (July 4).

As one of the six government-designated emerging industries, the domestic green energy industry boasted output value of NT$380 billion in 2010, including NT$200 billion of the photovoltaic industry and NT$160 billion of the LED (light-emitting diode) industry.

Ou noted that the output volume of Taiwan-made solar cells reached 3GW in 2010, the second highest worldwide, outpacing Japan's 2.5GW, while Taiwan-made LED components and backlight modules ranked first place in volume and second place in value. In March 2010, TECO Electric and Machinery rolled out the first Taiwan-made 2MW wind turbine, making Taiwan the eighth large-scale wind-turbine manufacturer worldwide.

The installation of solar heaters in Taiwan, said Ou, has reached 2.08 million square meters, ranking fifth place in installation density globally. In the 2010 report on global competitiveness released by Switzerland-based IMD, Taiwan ranked sixth place globally and second place in Asia in terms of green technology competitiveness.

The 1111 manpower databank reported that there were 16,586 pieces of information on green energy-related job vacancies at the website in June, 30% higher than a year earlier. The website also released a survey yesterday, showing that 65% of salaried persons are interested in working in the green energy industry.

A symposium for green-energy jobs, organized by the Bureau of Energy, will take place at Hall 2 of Taipei World Trade Center this Saturday (June 9), when 100 exhibition firms will offer over 10,000 green-energy job vacancies to visitors.