Taiwan says goodbye to nuclear energy. The last active reactor will be completely eliminated on Saturday. With the step, the Government of the Democratic Progress Party (DPP) complies with a central promise of its 2016 Energy Plan, which for the extreme for 2025 provided for a nuclear phase. The background was in the first place the nuclear disaster in the Japanese Fukushima -Kerncentrale in 2011.
“This not only sends a strong message to other Asian countries such as Japan and Korea, but also to the rest of the world that nuclear energy is superfluous,” says Jusen Asuka, professor of Noordoost -Asia studies at Japanese Tohoku University to Taiwan’s exit of Kernachtmacht.
82 percent of the energy from fossil sources
The dismantling of two older Taiwans nuclear power plants began in 2018 and 2021, the first reactor from Maanhan then followed in July 2024. At peak times, nuclear energy yielded about 50 percent of Taiwanese electricity, in 2024 the share was only about three percent. According to the supplier of the Taipower energy provider, 82.1 percent of the Taiwanish electricity came from fossil sources last year, 11.9 percent of the renewable energy sources.
Prime Minister Cho Jung-Tai ensured on Friday that the power supply was secured despite the growing demand, for example due to the semiconductor industry and applications in the field of artificial intelligence. The reserve buffer will decrease somewhat by putting out of use, but is still above the safety reconciled values of safety.
Critics see independence in danger
Taipower is planning to record four new Gaspower factories this year. Cho also confirmed the goal of increasing the share of renewable energies to the electricity mix to 20 percent by 2026. In the Run -up to the Shutdown, critics have not only expressed doubts about whether the growing energy -requirement of Taiwan can be permanently covered without a nuclear power. Given the tensions with China, some experts also considered more energy independence as necessary due to diversified care.
Source: Krone
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