UK and Taiwan launch new CCUS partnership

The British Office Taipei and Taiwan’s Energy Administration have announced the launch of the UK-Taiwan CCUS Partnership at the eighth UK-Taiwan Energy Dialogue and 21st UK-Taiwan Renewable Energy Conference in Taipei.

• The UK-Taiwan Energy Dialogue and Renewable Energy Conference were held in Taipei on 20 October, opened by Ruth Bradley-Jones and Cynthia Kiang, and chaired by Simon Payne and Chih-Wei Wu.
• A key outcome was the launch of the UK-Taiwan CCUS Partnership under the Enhanced Trade Partnership, with cooperation to focus on policy/regulatory work, technical research and deployment, and commercial pipeline/investor engagement.
• The dialogue also covered energy security, offshore wind, and industrial decarbonisation, including Taiwan’s Second Energy Transition, UK offshore wind targets of 43-50 GW by 2030, and Taiwan’s CCUS plan to cut 6 million metric tonnes of CO₂e annually by 2035.