By the end of Dec. 2014, the three developers are required to complete the procedure for getting Establishment Permit. By Sep. 2015, the foundation of offshore wind turbine demonstration units and subsea cable installation must be completed. Before the end of Dec. 2015, grid connection and commercial operation must be completed as scheduled. All 3 offshore demonstration projects will complete 4-6 demonstration units by 2015, and will commission 3 demonstration wind farms by 2020 with a total capacity of 300 MW or more.
The demonstration incentive program is a trial model of large scale offshore wind farm development. In the future, offshore wind farms will be developed in zonal scales with 300 MW per year at deeper water area to gradually reach 3,000 MW with 600 turbines by 2030. Then the total installed capacity of offshore and onshore wind turbines will reach 4,200 MW, and the gross production output will exceed NTD 500 billion (US$ 16.6 billion). By then, the total installed capacity of wind will consist more than 33% of all renewable energy devices, as expected to be one of the most important alternative energy resources.