Abstract
Nowadays, the role of emerging low-carbon energy, such as offshore wind power, carbon capture and storage technology, or wave and tidal energy, is very central for the energy development of the world. Taiwan, with its significant resources, is a potential area for offshore wind power, carbon capture and storage technology, and wave and tidal energy development. In order to impetus to the developments of those emerging low-carbon energy technologies in Taiwan, the government must established the policy mechanisms related to emerging low-carbon energy technologies developments first. However, it is still none of achievements of those emerging low-carbon energy technologies development in Taiwan. Take the implementations on international (especially in UK, which has developed the largest offshore wind farm of the world) emerging low-carbon energy technologies development plans as examples, it is essential to be considered that the government always takes the lead on the strategic environmental assessment before they can carry out the development and construction work in UK. Nevertheless, being followed by complete and rigorous consideration for the development of those emerging low-carbon energy technologies guidelines caused by minimizing the impact, and provided by the geographic conditions of Taiwan, all of these factors may give comprehensive development for the future energy policy, which is important for the development of those emerging low-carbon energy technologies as top priority missions. This research will enable the community in the implementation of future low-carbon energy technologies program to be tracked. So that particularly, it will make some conditions possible to achieve, such as the integration of foreign offshore wind power and wave and tidal energy project development, or the carbon capture and storage projects, in practicing examples of strategic environmental assessment, reference and integration of domestic strategic environmental assessment related to the legal basis for Taiwan as the specific environmental and factors in order to develop the most suitable content and performance standards for emerging low-carbon energy technologies developments in Taiwan’s implementation of strategic environmental assessment, and also for the establishment of a set of pragmatic and practical issues about the strategic environmental assessment of emerging low-carbon energy technologies developments specifications.