Major Milestones
Shalun Smart Green Energy Science City: Building Taiwan’s Green Energy Platform
In 2017, Taiwan’s government launched the Forward-Looking Infrastructure Plan, which emphasized the development of projects related to green energy infrastructure. The goal was to achieve Taiwan’s energy transition targets by 2025 and create a international green supply chain. In 2020, ITRI established the Shalun Smart Green Energy Science City, Taiwan’s first-ever science city that integrates nature, humanity, and technology. The Green Energy Technology Demonstration Site, built by ITRI, currently has 26 partners and an occupancy rate of 92%, increasing the value of Taiwan’s green energy technology.
The Green Energy Technology Demonstration Site serves as a one-stop technological service center that offers demonstrations of renewable energy, such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and hydrogen energy. It provides services including green energy research and development technologies, industrial testing, trial production, verification, and matchmaking. Additionally, ITRI utilized green energy technologies to create the Intelligent Green Energy Demonstration Houses that replicate the forms of houses commonly found in southern Taiwan, showcasing how green energy buildings can combine AI and 5G technologies to achieve zero energy consumption.
SPINLab, built by ITRI, is a full-scale, rotatable energy-saving building for green building technology in the subtropics, and is an experimental site that can simulate different directions of houses. The facility provides services to clients engaged in green building technology-related development and research, simulation software, and product testing.
In 2021, ITRI developed the Virtual Power Plant (VPP), a verification platform that integrates multiple resources. The VPP has ITRI Headquarters in Hsinchu as its control center, and is connected to the ITRI Southern Region Campus and the Green Energy Technology Demonstration Site, providing on-site verification services. It improves electrical grid flexibility, aids in renewable energy-electrical grid integration, and helps achieve the goal of net zero emissions. The Green Energy Technology Demonstration Site was built to connect green energy supply chains and create green business opportunities.
ITRI began construction on the Shalun Smart Green Energy Science City, which was completed and open for operations in 2020.
ITRI built the Intelligent Green Energy Demonstration Houses. All home appliances in the houses are interconnected and can be controlled with a single click, optimizing power usage and achieving the goal of energy saving.
ITRI built the SPINLab, which can conduct energy-saving tests such as thermal insulation material, coating, sunshades, and facade design tests.
The Shalun Green Energy Science City was completed and opened, making it the first science city in Taiwan that incorporates nature, culture, and technology.
ITRI developed the Virtual Power Plant verification platform that uses network communication technologies to integrate and organize scattered energy sources.
