Although efforts at developing renewable energy in Taiwan in recent years have been due in part to the practical difficulty of finding locations for power plants, and to the government's policy of creating a "green homeland," an even more important stimulus has been the international demand to lower greenhouse gases.
國內近來致力發展再生能源雖與電廠一地難求、綠色家園政策有關，但國際對溫室氣體減量的要求，可能是更重要的驅策力。