The US Department of Commerce has announced preliminary affirmative determinations in its countervailing duty investigations into crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from India, Indonesia, and Laos, setting proposed subsidy rates that could significantly raise import costs if finalized.

Amid rising offshore wind power development in Taiwan and across Asia, alongside increasing cross-border communication cable installations, Dong Fang Offshore (DFO) is aggressively expanding its fleet. Building on existing European client orders, the Taiwan-based offshore maritime solutions provider decided at the end of 2025 to add new cable-laying vessels, targeting the vast market demand driven by energy transition and AI.

Taiwan's offshore wind sector is entering the third phase of block development (Phase 3-3) vendor selection, marking the first time localization requirements have been removed. The new process also introduces ESG and energy resilience scoring criteria, evaluating local industry and economic benefits, environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and stable operation and energy resilience of wind farms. The goal is to complete vendor selection by the end of 2026.

With China's solar products set to lose a 9% export tax rebate in April 2026, compounded by raw material inflation, a wave of pre-rebate-cancellation stockpiling should theoretically emerge. Instead, this buying momentum has mainly come from overseas players. Meanwhile, many other foreign customers, faced with being passed on higher raw material costs, have ultimately chosen to stay on the sidelines. Survival in the industry is increasingly dependent on cash reserves rather than technological superiority.

Technological iteration is supposed to symbolize progress. Yet N-type (Tunnel Oxide Oxide Passivated Contact) TOPCon technology, which has been in commercial deployment for only about three years, is now in survival mode. Supply chain players on both sides of the Taiwan Strait point out that this crisis is no longer a simple imbalance of supply and demand figures, but rather a zeroing effect because of policy shifts, surging raw material costs, and intense technological infighting.

Chicony Power, a Taiwanese power and energy management company, is accelerating a strategic shift away from its traditional reliance on PC and notebook power supplies, expanding into communications power systems, AI server power solutions, and intelligent low-carbon integration platforms as it seeks to build a more resilient business amid market volatility.

Supply chain sources said teams linked to Tesla and SpaceX recently made low-profile visits to multiple Chinese solar firms, reviewing equipment, silicon wafers, cells, and modules, with a focus on next-generation technologies including heterojunction technology (HJT) and high-efficiency perovskite cells.

After years of disruption, Taiwan's offshore wind sector is approaching a decisive inflection point in 2026. Development momentum was previously slowed by labor shortages during the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, surging construction costs, and an EU complaint to the WTO over Taiwan's localization policies, which temporarily stalled project approvals. With these headwinds gradually easing, the government is now preparing to restart large-scale expansion.

Since taking office, Trump has suspended clean energy subsidies under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, creating diverging US green energy policies. Subsidies were reduced for wind and solar power, residential clean energy equipment, and electric vehicles, while the impact on industries such as nuclear power, geothermal energy, carbon capture, and energy storage was relatively positive, with original tax credits retained. Hydrogen projects can still proceed as long as construction begins before 2028.

The Fengmiao Offshore Wind Farm, led by the fifth flagship fund of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), will officially enter its first year of offshore construction in 2026, to complete full grid connection by the end of 2027. CEO Mark Wainwright stated that following the completion of project financing in March 2025, overall construction has continued to progress. All pin piles have now been manufactured. A total of 33 jacket foundations are being managed under a turnkey contract by Century Iron and Steel, with 20 fabricated in-house by Century and the remaining 13 produced by a Korean manufacturer. The overall configuration complies with the localization requirements of the third quarter, first phase offshore wind projects.