Nuclear power could operate next to green power: LaiNECESSITY COMPELS Growing AI-driven power requirements and wars abroad mean that the government is looking at all options, Lai saidStaff writer, with CNAReviewing a possible restart of nuclear power plants is compatible with Taiwan’s continued push for renewable energy, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday in defending his administration’s reversal on nuclear power use. Lai said the government would continue developing green energy — including wind, solar, small hydropower and hydrogen — alongside any assessment of nuclear restarts. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei TimesOpposing nuclear power has long been a central tenet of Lai’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Lai said that renewable energy had compensated for the loss of nuclear power generation under Tsai’s green-energy initiative, helping maintain a stable power supply, but that Taiwan’s energy strategy needed to be reassessed. Lai said that based on those amendments, state-run Taiwan Power Co was preparing to submit restart plans for the Guosheng and Ma-anshan nuclear power plants to the Nuclear Safety Commission by the end of the month.

Source: Taipei Times March 22, 2026 16:38 UTC