Inaction by the state is preventing progress on the project to build a large offshore wind farm in the Gulf of Riga, State-owned energy group Eesti Energia wants the government to offer its guarantee to the project so that when the price of electricity drops below a certain level, the state would compensate the balance, Eesti Energia CEO Hando Sutter said on Thursday.
Recently, Eesti Energia announced plans for the establishment of an offshore wind farm in the Gulf of Riga with Danish company Orsted. Preparations have been going on for ten years and it will take another ten days for the wind farm to be put into operation if the project ever materializes, public broadcaster ERR reported.
A senior military official at the Ministry of National Defense’s Armaments Bureau has been detained for allegedly demanding NT$45 million (US$1.61 million) in bribes from a contractor.
Major General Chang Ta-wei (張大偉), who heads the bureau’s Construction and Facilities Section, and former BES Engineering Corp chairman Shen Hwa-yeang (沈華養) were yesterday detained under restricted communication after law enforcement authorities raided their offices and residences early this week.
New Taipei City prosecutors suspect that Chang received bribes from BES executives for a big tender project to build a facility at Fuhsing Barracks in Taipei’s Gongguan area (公館) for Air Combat Command.
The tender
Taipower says blackouts were due to human error
By Angelica Oung / Staff reporter
Human error was to blame for blackouts across Taiwan on Thursday, Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) told a news conference yesterday, promising to compensate affected households and businesses.
Taipower vice president Wang Yao-ting (王耀庭) said that the households would be granted a 5 percent discount on their electricity bills for this month and next month, while 6,300 affected high-voltage business users would get a 5 percent discount for this month.
The compensations are expected to cost Taipower about NT$470 million (US$16.78 million), Wang said.
From left, Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) chairman Yang Wei-fu, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua and Taipower president Chung Bin-li attend a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
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