Developers face more pitfalls in a “politicised” Taiwanese offshore wind sector after the avoidable red-tape pile-up that caused projects to miss a key deadline at the end of 2018, warned a professor of energy law on the island.

Orsted, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CPI), China Steel, Yushan Energy and its partner Northland Power (NPI) finally gained construction permits from Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on 31 January for six of their offshore projects.