（GTI）September 25: Taiwan’s Energy Resilience: Security, Innovation, and Policy
Organized by the Global Taiwan Institute Event Summary: On September 25, 2025, the Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) hosted a seminar entitled “Taiwan’s Energy Resilience: Security, Innovation, and Policy.” The discussion featured four speakers: Chia-Wei Chao, Research Director at the Taiwan Climate Action Network (台灣氣候行動網絡); Kayla Orta, Non-resident Fellow at the Indo-Pacific Initiative at the Atlantic Council; Joseph Webster, a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center; and Chia-Shen Tsai, Non-Resident Fellow at Taiwan’s Research Institute for Democracy, Society, and Emerging Technology (DSET). GTI Programs Coordinator Ben Levine moderated the event. Chia-Wei Chao outlined how Taiwan’s energy transition has entered a “2.0” phase that is increasingly driven by security and resilience. He stressed that Taiwan remains heavily dependent on energy imports and can sustain its supply for only about two weeks in a crisis, with semiconductors alone consuming over half of the nation’s electricity. While renewable energy capacity has tripled […]