Graduate student Dae-Hyun Choi and assistant professor Dr. Le Xie from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University received the Best Paper Award at the Third IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) in Tainan City, Taiwan. via Xie and Choi win best paper award at IEEE SmartGridComm | 30 Continue reading →
Taiwan’s government is to invest NT$130 billion ($4.4 billion) in the deployment of a national smart grid over the next 20 years, according to a report from Taiwan Today. The report claims the plan has already secured the backing of the Cabinet and says an interagency task force will soon be formed. via Taiwan to Continue reading →
The ROC government will invest NT$130 billion (US$4.36 billion) over the next 20 years to construct a nationwide smart grid, according to the Bureau of Energy under the Ministry of Economic Affairs Sept. 6. The establishment of a comprehensive smart grid has been listed as part of the national energy conservation and carbon reduction project, Continue reading →
Fukushima s effect on the energy industry has been felt from Taiwan to Germany but, of course, nowhere as much as in Japan. The radioactive element of the earthquake and tsunami-induced disaster of March 2011, when three separate nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant suffered full meltdown, changed decades-old assumptions about how an energy-hungry, Continue reading →
The IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), the leading international forum dedicated to the advance of the world’s power delivery infrastructure, has announced May 6, 2012 as the “Call for Papers” deadline for its 3rd annual event to be held November 5 – 8, 2012 in Tainan City, Taiwan. All interested researchers, industry Continue reading →
he government plans to invest an additional NT$130 billion (US$4.28 billion) in smart power grid infrastructure beginning in 2012, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Sunday. A digitally enabled power grid that can deliver electricity by using two-way communication will improve the efficiency, quality and reliability of the power supply system, the MOEA’s Bureau Continue reading →
Eyeing the global market for smart grids that will hit US$183.6 billion in the next 20 years, Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs has drafted a 20-year industrial development project with a huge investment of up to NT$150 billion, aiming to build a smart-grid industry on the island with annual output value of over NT$1 trillion Continue reading →
We’ve alerted you already that China, Korea and Japan are taking steps to become major forces in smart grid. Add Taiwan to the list, according to a report in the Taiwan News. The government plans to invest an additional $4.3 billion in smart grid beginning in 2012, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). It Continue reading →
