Environmental Management Administration

After the closing and rehabilitation of landfills, solar panels may be installed on them to support the central government's 2025 energy transition policy, combining waste treatment facilities with solar panels, enhancing public land space reuse, and promoting environmental protection and green energy's dual development. This gradually transforms closed landfills phasal use to green energy, solar power generation or other uses, providing the public an environmental-friendly living space, thus realizing the vision of environmental protection.

The administration strives to facilitate the installation of solar power systems in suitable closed, rehabilitating public landfills to promote the administration's policies. To ensure energy safety, green economy, and environmental sustainability, the Executive Yuan passed the "Green Energy Technology Industry Innovation Promotion Program" in 2016, in which a goal involving the administration is to have closed, rehabilitated landfills and other public environmental protection facilities reach 1 million-megawatt capacity by the end of 2025.

To ensure national energy safety, green economy, and environmental sustainability, the administration's landfills and other environmental protection facilities work with the strategy of "diverse energy generation" under the Executive Yuan's "Green Energy Technology Industry Innovation Promotion Program." Since 2016, closed, rehabilitating landfills have been inventoried, their uses evaluated for the transformation into solar power landfills. According to inventory results, by the end of 2024, 48 solar power landfills have been installed.

Since the implementation from 2016 until 2024, public environmental protection facilities (landfills, sanitary teams, and incineration plants) have provided 96.8 megawatts of capacity, contributing to solar power generation a maximum of:

• 269 million kilowatt-hours yearly

In line with relevant supporting measures, the administration will hold discussions and meetings to inventory potential landfills for development, share installment results and experiences, have experts scout, advise, and evaluate potential sites and submit reports as references for promoting the installation of solar power, and adding it to local environmental protection performance evaluations to enhance local government's motivation in promoting the policy, thus facilitating green transformation efforts.