A recent report by the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (not yet available to the public) points out that if Taiwan could achieve the same level of productive efficiency as Japan had 15 years ago (when its per capita income was the same as Taiwan's is today), by the year 2000 there would be no shortage of energy.
在工業局尚未公開的期終報告指出，如果台灣每一單位電力所生產的效益可以做到與十五年前（當時日本與今天台灣個人所得一樣）的日本相同，到公元兩千年，台灣不應該有電力不足的問題。