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Taiwan is looking to renewable energy as a way out of the oil crisis. Premier Liu Chao-shiuan of Executive Yuan urged the legislators to pass a Renewable Energy Development Bill to be proposed in September, saying that developing renewable energy resources is a high priority to the Taiwan government.
With limited energy resources, Taiwan imports over 97% of its energy supply from foreign countries. In view of the recent crude oil price spike, The Executive Yuan passed the Renewable Energy Development Bill in May that aims to heighten domestic self-sufficiency in the supply of energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by establishing mechanisms for linking renewable-energy generating facilities to the power industry and for a guaranteed purchase price for their electricity. The mechanisms will provide incentives for investment in power facilities and promote the use of renewable energy up to a total installed capacity of 6.5 million kilowatts.
The Renewable Energy Development Bill regulates that the expense of developing renewable energy will employ a fund to subsidize the guaranteed price and the installation of generating equipment. After approval by the Bureau of Energy, the added cost to a power company of payments into the fund in accordance with its total electricity generation will be added to the selling price of the electricity. This will rationalize the calculation of the electricity price.
At the present time, technology for power generation using solar panels, hydrogen, or fuel cells costs far more expensive than other forms of renewal energy. In consideration of the impact of their development potential on future electricity prices in Taiwan, however, the Renewable Energy Development Bill authorizes the government to work out methods for subsidizing demonstration projects. Promotion will be carried out in stages so that the increase in demonstration projects will expand domestic market demand and encourage the development of related green industries.
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Driven by multiple applications & environmental concerns, the Electronic paper market is projected to be US$ 4 billion dollars in 2015 compared with US$238 million US dollars in 2007, according to statistics provided by a speaker in the "Latest Electronic Paper Technology Development Seminar" held in PIDA on September 10th.
According to Jessie Lin, manager of the Display Technology Center of ITRI, electronic paper is a display technology designed to mimic the appearance of traditional ink on paper, such as newsprint, books, and magazines. Unlike conventional LCDs, it does not need a backlight to illuminate its image. Instead, the image provided by e-paper has the characteristics of ordinary printed-paper and is capable of being stored almost indefinitely without using electricity, while at the same time allowing the consumer to manage the image electronically on demand. In addition to traditional print, other uses for the technology would include electronic billboards, signage, and transportation timetables.
This technology seminar targeting at the development prospect of electronic paper, is led by "The status of electronic paper & the market trends" presented by Jessie Lin; another speaker from the Display Technlogy Center of ITRI, Ji-Wen Shiu, delivered his speech on the subject of "The Technology of ePaper". In his lecture, he compared various technologies used in constructing electronic papers, such as aprticle based bistatble technology, and flexible backplane technology, and he also revealed the development progress at ITRI. The key technology of ITRI's electronic paper is based on R2R Ch-LCD, which provides advantages such as high brightness, better color performance, high resolution, etc.
FIG.2 ITRI demonstrated electronic paper products
Finally, Director Kageyama Yoshiaki from E-paper group of Fujitsu Frontech System, one of the leading developer of electronic paper, disclosed "Technology Development of Cholesteric LCD using in Electronic Paper", citing the technology significance of Cholesteric LCD used in Flexpia to illustrate various features of the Fujitsu product. Reference Information is available at: http://jp.fujitsu.com/group/labs/techinfo/techguide/list/paper.html.
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