According to Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), domestic enterprises have a large and competitive demand for green electricity (such as RE100) to enhance international competitiveness, and advanced manufacturing processes require higher proportions of green electricity. Thus, increasing the share of green electricity in products made in Taiwan by 2030 has become an urgent priority. The National Credit Guarantee Mechanism aims to encourage investments from banks and insurance funds to support offshore wind farms and accelerate offshore wind power construction, thus ensuring sufficient green electricity for domestic high-tech industry to enhance export competitiveness and achieve the 2050 net-zero target.
Amid public skepticism over the National Credit Guarantee Mechanism, the Energy Administration (EA) of the MOEA explained that the development of offshore wind power has progressed to the Zonal Development phase, with an estimated financing demand of NT$1.08 trillion between 2026 and 2031. The National Development Council (NDC), the Ministry of Finance, and the MOEA have jointly launched initiatives involving the National Development Fund and eight major state-owned banks to provide financing guarantees, with a total capacity of NT$90 billion. This mechanism assists offshore wind farms in obtaining financing and also offers guarantees to eliminate barriers for general enterprises seeking to purchase green electricity. The government remains committed to fostering a benign investment environment for offshore wind power development.
The EA further stated that the MOEA and the NDC have recently collaborated to raise the national credit guarantee ratio from 60% to 80% for green energy construction projects by project financing developers, enhancing the full credit guarantees for banks to participate in wind farm projects, incentivizing state-owned banks and other financial institutions to finance offshore wind farms, and supports the sustainable development of offshore wind power market in Taiwan.
Furthermore, the EA noted that offshore wind power financing operations require the long-term and stable financial capacity for electricity procurement. Therefore, the National Credit Guarantee Mechanism can provide any single general business up to 80% of credit guarantees for procurement of green electricity, which provides additional credit protection for domestic electricity-purchasing enterprises without long-term international credit ratings, and, at the same time, boosts the banks' confidence when reviewing Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (CPPA), improving the financial structure of wind farms.
