The government of Taiwan is reportedly planning to approach Tesla about setting up lithium ion battery facilities on the heels of Tuesday’s blackout, the island nation’s biggest power outage since 1999. The facilities would be aimed at storing renewable energy on the island.
Tesla is using its lithium ion battery technology to help Australia and California to implement smart grid and grid storage, and we can learn from them in the future,” Taiwan’s Minister of Science and Technology Chen Liang-gee told reporters.
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen’s has pledged to make Taiwan nuclear energy free by 2025, and the talks of battery facilities with Tesla would be a crucial step in her plans of utilizing more green energy.
Chen told reporters that the Taiwanese government would look to potentially form a joint venture with Tesla for the battery project as the government doesn’t have prepared a budget for the project.
Tuesday’s blackout reportedly came after “government-run petroleum company CPC Corporation ran into difficulties while replacing the power supply for a control system responsible for sending natural gas to a power plant.”
The plan is for Taiwan send a team of officials to the U.S. to talk with Tesla in the near future, although Chen would not be leading the talks.
“We will try to check out whether there is a suitable solution…we will get in touch with them,” Chen said.
Taiwan is just the latest area that is looking to strike a deal with Elon Musk and Tesla.
Tesla secured a contract back in July to install the world’s largest lithium-ion battery storage system in South Australia.
The Australia deal is for a 100-megawatt (129 mWh) Powerpack system to be paired with Neoen’s Hornsdale wind farm.
The deal first came to a head in March when Musk committed to solving South Australia’s power crisis in 100 days through a Tesla Energy product or the system would be free.
Tesla has not commented on the potential Taiwan talks just yet, but if they go well, another area will be joining Tesla’s energy revolution.
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To help you out with that I gave D a "useful" rating!Michael Russo@Daiwanlang , in behalf of all of us non-Chinese speaking folks, thank you so very much!
If I would have been able to provide multiple ratings, I would have also selected agree, love it and useful!!!
Tsai Ing-wen is female, not male.
WTG Taiwan!
Welcome to the forum and thank you for the clarification!Jared S"Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen’s has pledged to make Taiwan nuclear energy free by 2025, and the talks of battery facilities with Tesla would be a crucial step in his plans of utilizing more green energy."
Tsai Ing-wen is female, not male.
We're glad to have you onboard! Great to see this environment becoming increasingly global & diverse!!
If I would have been able to provide multiple ratings, I would have also selected agree, love it and useful!!!
我必須說，台灣政府的政策不具備遠瞻，國會議員的思想封閉且不夠周全。
而且台灣政府行政效率相當差勁......
台灣媒體有報導，台灣政府官員正在"考慮"尋求特斯拉(Tesla)協助，
我認為這只是"製造話題"，因為台灣政府並沒有真正地嚴格審慎規劃綠能(Green Energy)
台灣電力來源現在還是依賴傳統發電廠(fossil fuel power station)
這是蠻糟糕的一件事
我認為以台灣的經濟條件與天然環境，
核電廠(Nuclear power stations)是台灣在走向Green Energy前，過渡轉型時期所必須具備的發電方式
很可惜地，台灣政府並不睿智，甚至政府可能迫於台灣民間部分反對核電廠的壓力而放棄核電廠
我對此感到擔憂........
Green Energy要在台灣成為主要發電來源，真的很困難。
Welcome, Model 3! Are trying to teach us all Chinese?!Model 3我是台灣人。先說抱歉，我的英文能力非常糟糕，只能以中文表達。
我必須說，台灣政府的政策不具備遠瞻，國會議員的思想封閉且不夠周全。
而且台灣政府行政效率相當差勁......
台灣媒體有報導，台灣政府官員正在"考慮"尋求特斯拉(Tesla)協助，
我認為這只是"製造話題"，因為台灣政府並沒有真正地嚴格審慎規劃綠能(Green Energy)
台灣電力來源現在還是依賴傳統發電廠(fossil fuel power station)
這是蠻糟糕的一件事
我認為以台灣的經濟條件與天然環境，
核電廠(Nuclear power stations)是台灣在走向Green Energy前，過渡轉型時期所必須具備的發電方式
很可惜地，台灣政府並不睿智，甚至政府可能迫於台灣民間部分反對核電廠的壓力而放棄核電廠
我對此感到擔憂........
Green Energy要在台灣成為主要發電來源，真的很困難。
Mind posting a translation in English?
Xie xie!
Personally I disagree. Problem with nuclear power within Taiwan is all of the nuclear power plants are located within major population centers, in an extremely active earthquake zone. The chance of nuclear disaster and dramatic loss of life simply too great to be ignored.
Tesla batteries will aid any power grid in its transition to green energy. Having that battery backup will dramatically reduce the significant up and down swings in power demand, especially in a subtropical country with huge air conditioning demand during the daytime, regardless of where the original power actually come from. Following the installation of the battery backup system, further green energy transition to solar, wind, thermal, and ocean current will be much smoother.
Back to Model 3, I do agree Taiwan has suffered greatly from the old inefficient over-bloated government bureaucracy. Reform is hard and can be slow, but resist the temptation to head back to nuclear, Taiwan's location on the edge of major tectonic plates simply do not allow for it.
