Taiwan aims to capture solar cell market

A REPORT FROM quango the Taiwan External Trade Development Council said that the island, which is a ROC between the hard place of mainland China and America, will grab a huge chunk of the solar cell market by 2015.

The outfit rather over-egged the cake, however, by describing Taiwan as the "sunny silicon island of Taiwan".

Why, it was only last year that we were in the impressive Taroko gorge, with rocks threatening to destroy what's left of our brain cells in a torrential downpour that we've never seen the like of anywhere else on the planet, including Old Mumbai.

The Taiwanese government department said that the Ministry of Economic Affairs has decided that solar energy is a strategic industry for development.

Taiwan's photo-voltaic energy industry will rise from NT$21.1 billion to NT$403.1 billion by 2015, grabbing seven per cent of the market.

Well, it's got the fabs. The Market Intelligence Centre (MIC) of Old Taipei reckons that "green industries" will be worth NT$640 billion in total by 2015. µ