Injustices in phasing out nuclear power?: Exploring limited public participation and transparency in Taiwan’s transition away from nuclear energy

Huang, Gillan Chi‐Lun; Chen, Rung‐Yi

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101808

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“…Since electricity generation in Taiwan has been heavily relied on thermal power, when nuclear is completely phased‐out in 2025, instability in electricity supply may be of concern [37]. If renewable energy supply is increased, capacity as well as the electricity generating cost can be challenging.…”

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Scenario analysis of Taiwan's nuclear phase‐out strategy with time series forecasting

Hsu,

Vo Nguyen,

Chen

et al. 2023

IET Generation Trans & Dist

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Electricity generation in Taiwan is mainly from thermal, nuclear, and renewable sources. With nearly four decades of monthly data (from January 1982 to January 2022) used in analytics, the forecasting results reveal the patterns of electricity generation in Taiwan. Exponential smoothing and Holt–Winters seasonal models are used for time‐series forecasting, and scenario analysis is applied to simulate possible paths for nuclear phase‐out in Taiwan by 2025. Taking the fact of Taiwan's lack of energy independence into account, transition for nuclear phase‐out may require a substantial leap to meet the demand. The feasibility of electricity generation using current thermal power capacity and renewable energy remain challenging.

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Scenario analysis of Taiwan's nuclear phase‐out strategy with time series forecasting

Hsu,

Vo Nguyen,

Chen

et al. 2023

IET Generation Trans & Dist

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“…With assistance from the opposition party KMT, the campaign culminated in two failed referendums in 2018 and 2020 (Ho, 2021). Given its political significance, nuclear power dominates energy‐related social science research in Taiwan and is a common topic in academic literature, including studies addressing economic assessment (Shih et al, 2016), the anti‐nuclear social movement (Grano, 2017; Ho, 2018), party politics (Chung, 2021; Huang & Chen, 2021a), public opinions (Lin, 2022), technopolitical regime (Chang, 2013), and environmental justice (Fan, 2006; Huang, 2015; Huang et al, 2013; Huang & Chen, 2021b). We in the research community, however, should not overstate nuclear power's climate implications, as it accounts for less than 10% of energy use in Taiwan.…”

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Politics of climate change mitigation in Taiwan: International isolation, developmentalism legacy, and civil society responses

Liu

Chao

2023

WIREs Climate Change

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This focus review summarizes climate politics in Taiwan at the global, the national, and the local level. The article begins with an introduction to Taiwan's emission profile, major actors, and recent policy development. At the global level, Taiwan's unique international status has limited its responses to climate change as mostly gesture policies, but recently corporate climate actions bloomed due to pressures from the supply chains. At the national level, Taiwan's developmental state legacy has locked the country in a “high‐carbon regime” and struggled with the debate on nuclear power. Finally, at the local level, Taiwan seeks to facilitate climate actions with the principle of energy democracy, yet public participation still falls short and local land use conflicts will present enormous challenges. The article ends with a discussion on current knowledge gaps and invites future research to put Taiwan into comparative perspectives. This article is categorized under: Policy and Governance > National Climate Change Policy

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“…How well does academic research support these challenging design problems of simultaneous zero‐carbon phase in and carbon phase out? Although the literature touches on some explicit efforts to intentionally eliminate industries (Haas & Sander, 2016; Haggerty et al, 2018; Hess et al, 2021; Huang & Chen, 2021; Zhao & Alexandroff, 2019), largely associated with coal and nuclear fleets with widely understood negative local impacts, the scope of contraction addressed by this type of research is quite limited relative to the decarbonization of the energy system as a whole. In addition, these examples largely involve a one for one replacement of infrastructure and technology with an alternative with relatively similar parameters.…”

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Designing the mid‐transition: A review of medium‐term challenges for coordinated decarbonization in the United States

Grubert

Hastings‐Simon

2022

WIREs Climate Change

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Decarbonizing the energy system is critical for addressing climate change. Given the dominance of fossil fuels in the energy system, decarbonization requires rapid and significant industrial transition of the energy supply at scale. This includes explicit and coordinated plans not only for zero carbon phase-in, but for fossil carbon phase-out. Even very rapid decarbonization will likely take decades, leading to a medium-term future where the conventional, fossil-based energy system coexists with a new, zero-carbon energy system. Each imposes operational constraints on the other: what we call the mid-transition. Notably, this coexistence means that the new, zero-carbon system will develop under fossil carbon system constraints. The mid-transition will therefore likely require specific analytical metrics designed to support decision making under dynamic and uncertain conditions. Many aspects of transition will be felt, and shaped, directly by individuals because of our direct interactions with energy systems.Even rare missteps are likely to have significant and potentially system designrelevant impacts on perception, political support, and implementation. Comparisons of the new system to the old system are likely to rest on experience of a world less affected by climate change, such that concerns about lower reliability, higher costs, and other challenges might be perceived as inherent to zero-carbon systems, versus energy systems facing consequences of climate change and longterm underinvestment. This review assesses and evaluates medium-term challenges associated with the mid-transition in the United States, emphasizing the need for explicit planning for joint and coordinated phase-in and phase-out.

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Injustices in phasing out nuclear power?: Exploring limited public participation and transparency in Taiwan’s transition away from nuclear energy

Cited by 17 publications

References 38 publications

Scenario analysis of Taiwan's nuclear phase‐out strategy with time series forecasting

Scenario analysis of Taiwan's nuclear phase‐out strategy with time series forecasting

Politics of climate change mitigation in Taiwan: International isolation, developmentalism legacy, and civil society responses

Designing the mid‐transition: A review of medium‐term challenges for coordinated decarbonization in the United States

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