Ministry Floats Plan To Require Solar Panels on New Buildings

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Taiwan's interior ministry is floating a plan to require all new buildings with roofs over 1,000 square meters to install solar panels as part of the government's goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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00:00Solar panels may be required for all new buildings in Taiwan with roofs over a thousand square meters.

00:07The Interior Ministry is floating the plan as part of the national goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

00:14It says about a hundred and seventy thousand kilowatts can be generated this way, enough to power

00:2150,000 households a year.

00:23Environmental groups argue this is not enough and that the plan should target new buildings with roofs areas of as small as

00:31300 square meters to be effective.

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