Taiwan launches biomass circular economy demonstration center

The Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture jointly signed an MOU with National Pingtung University of Science and Technology to establish a campus-based demonstration center for sustainable energy and climate change.

• Main announcement/action: On 114-09-26 (Minguo calendar), the Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, and National Pingtung University of Science and Technology signed an MOU (witnessed by Legislators 鍾佳濱 and 蘇清泉 and the Pingtung County Government) to build the “Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Demonstration Center” on about 300 hectares of campus land; agreed activities include waste collection, energy conversion (biomass-to-energy), and resource reuse to create a circular economy pilot on-site.
• Background and implementation details: The project will leverage Pingtung’s agricultural scale to pilot a Taiwan biomass energy model, develop natural carbon sink and carbon capture technologies, and offer professional training courses to cultivate green-collar talent; the MOU sets collaboration scope (research, demonstration, replication) but no specific multi-year implementation timeline is specified in the announcement.