The Taiwanese government plans to increase the amount of capacity in its upcoming offshore wind Round 3 process to 15GW from 10GW.
The increased zonal development total capacity is equivalent to 1.5GW per year from 2026 to 2035, officials said at a meeting in Taipei on Tuesday.
The Bureau of Energy (BoE) within the Ministry of Economic Affairs will release 9GW of this capacity between 2026 and 2031 in 3GW portions.
Each project is capped at 500MW which means each developer will be limited to 500MW project bids, maximum, or can split this amount into smaller projects, with 100MW the minimal size.
In period 1 the BoE will start accepting applications from the second quarter of 2022, for 3GW, to connect to the grid in 2026-2027.
This will be followed by two further 3GW allocations.
In 2032-2035, an additional 6GW will be released with details being announced at a later date.
There will be a dual-stage selection process for projects, firstly on selection, which includes localisation criteria, then price, according to the BoE.
After passing the selection process, developers will compete on price.
The BoE has not yet released a map or definite locations.