German company to operate Taiwan's first wind power plant

This article was from The Taiwan Economic News and published by The Taiwan Headlines on June 17, 2003. It reports that German firm InfraVestr has won a permit from Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs to operate the island's first wind power generation plant. The ministry decided in a national energy conference in 1998 to earmark NT$10 billion (US$288 million) from 2000 to 2005, to present incentives to encourage wind power generation as part of the government plan to diversify the country's energy resources.