Taiwan’s Multidimensional Energy Security Challenges

2025 ANU TAIWAN UPDATE
Taiwan’s Multidimensional Energy Security Challenges

A stable and reliable energy supply is essential for a nation’s economic growth and development. In selecting fuel sources, nowadays almost all countries have taken climate change into account, adopted sensible clean energy transition plans, and designed a schedule to meet the goal of Net Zero. While pursuing a 3-E (energy-economic-environmental) balanced energy supply strategy, Taiwan, lacking indigenous resources, faces unique challenges of supply disruptions from over dependence on energy imports and possible blockade, quarantine, or invasion from Beijing. Any disruption of power supply or surge of energy costs could not only threaten Taiwan’s competitive edge in the global high-tech market but also undermine Taiwan’s internal stability and the nation’s survival. In this talk, Professor Chyungly Lee will first present fact sheets on Taiwan’s energy status, summarise Taiwan’s current energy strategy, and then discuss dilemmas and vulnerabilities that Taiwan might face in the next few years.

Speaker
Chyungly Lee is Professor of International Relations at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Her research covers topics on Asia-Pacific comprehensive security, Indo-Pacific multilateralism, and conflict prevention in East Asia. She received her Ph.D. from University of Maryland at College Park and has been an invited visiting professor at Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, ASEAN Studies Initiative at American University, Stimson Center in Washington D.C., Liu Institute for Global Studies at UBC, and the U.S. Sandia National Lab.

Afternoon tea will be provided at 3:15pm. 
View the 2025 Taiwan Update Program

The Taiwan Update is an initiative under the ANU Taiwan Studies Program 2025-28, which is a partnership between the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University and the Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan). We especially thank the Political Science and International Relations programme at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington for co-hosting the 2025 Taiwan Update in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Photo by H.T. Yu on Flickr.