As generative AI adoption accelerates, AI data centers are becoming one of the fastest-growing sources of electricity demand worldwide. Unlike conventional data centers, however, AI facilities exhibit highly variable power consumption driven by intensive GPU workloads, creating new challenges for grid operators while raising the bar for the reliability of on-site power systems.
South Korea has finalized plans to bring climate-related information under statutory disclosure requirements beginning in 2028, advancing the timetable and widening the scope compared with a draft released in February 2026.
South Korea's EcoPro BM said it aims to begin mass production of sulfide-based solid electrolytes, a core material for all-solid-state batteries, as early as 2027, laying out a roadmap to supply the full slate of materials the next-generation cells will require. The plan was disclosed at a corporate briefing in Yeouido, Seoul, on July 16 and formalized in a roadmap announcement on July 19.
Taiwan's electric vehicle market is moving more slowly than expected as long-stagnant subsidies leave buyers with a difficult choice between internal combustion engine, hybrid electric, and battery electric vehicle models. According to PG Union, the delay reflects both a softer economy and a broader shift in consumer decision-making as purchase options become more complex.
China is dismantling the tax shelter that helped build the world's largest battery industry, and the move looks less like a one-off revenue measure than the opening of a broad campaign to force consolidation across its clean-energy supply chains — with consequences that reach from Chinese carmakers to global energy-storage buyers.
Taiwan's semiconductor supply chain is facing mounting pressure to secure enough green electricity as Apple and Google push suppliers to meet net-zero requirements. The strain is rippling from end customers to foundries such as TSMC and then through upstream and downstream vendors, raising fresh concerns over the island's ability to provide affordable and sufficient clean power.
Taiwan lawmakers and Pegatron chairman Tung Tzu-hsien are stepping up calls for nuclear power to strengthen the island's energy resilience, while Academia Sinica said it currently lacks an in-house nuclear power research program but remains open to working with outside research teams.
South Korea's plan to develop a semiconductor cluster in the Honam region (Jeolla Province) is facing mounting scrutiny over whether the area can support the enormous energy and infrastructure requirements of advanced memory manufacturing.
As climate change fuels increasingly severe heat waves, Taiwan is stepping up efforts to combat heat-related illness by integrating artificial intelligence (AI), IoT sensors and social welfare services into a smart heat protection network to better protect vulnerable residents.
China's solar industry is still trapped in a painful shakeout after three straight years of losses across much of the supply chain, according to first-half reports from leading companies. Persistent overcapacity, weak downstream demand, and rising overseas barriers have left the sector under pressure, while investors are watching for signs that similar problems could spread to energy storage and new energy vehicles.
LG Energy Solution plans to establish a sodium-ion battery mother line at its Ochang Energy Plant in South Korea in 2026, seeking to narrow CATL's early commercial lead in energy storage systems.
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