Hai-Shuo Energy Partners with National Cheng Hua University to Establish Taiwan Wind Training Company to Cultivate Wind Power Talents

https://ctee.com.tw/industrynews/technology/635673.html

In response to the government's development of the offshore wind power industry and the need to cultivate sufficient talent for offshore wind power, Hi-Tech Energy, together with Chung Hwa University, has established the "Taiwan-Hua Wind Power Training Company" to provide localized training services for the wind power industry and to cultivate and reserve Taiwan's local wind power talent, so that Taiwan's rapid development of offshore wind power can be deployed ahead of time.

HISCO, XRA and Chung Hwa University signed the "Offshore Wind Power Talent Training Center Cooperation Agreement" on 28th, announcing that they will combine their respective strengths and resources to join hands in the training of talents in the wind power industry, and to contribute to the cultivation and development of offshore wind power talents in the country.

The cooperation agreement was signed by President of School of Management of Chung Hua University, Mr. Pei Wen, CEO of Hi-Tech Energy, Mr. Cheng Chao-il, and International Engineering Manager of XRA, Mr. Tang Chien-ya. Through the software and hardware resources of the three parties, they will carry out exchanges and professional and technical cooperation in order to lay a foundation for the development of talents in Taiwan's off-shore wind power industry.

As a professional offshore wind power operation and maintenance company in Taiwan, HISCO Energy not only provides offshore wind power underwater foundation, marine cable, offshore substation inspection and maintenance, offshore wind, wave and current observation and climate window prediction services, but also provides offshore wind power storage logistics management services.

Mr. Cheng said that offshore wind power is an important part of Taiwan's national policy for energy transformation, and from 2022 to 2025, Taiwan will enter the peak period of offshore wind power construction, which will lead to an urgent need for talents. In order to cultivate offshore wind power talents, HISECO has partnered with National Chung Hwa University to establish the first wind training center in Northern Taiwan to accelerate the cultivation of Taiwan's offshore wind power talents. In addition, the former general manager of Skylars, an Australian wind training company, Andrew Blizzard, has been recruited as a consultant to accelerate the construction of the wind training center.

Cheng pointed out that Skylars is Australia's largest wind power talent training company, and currently has wind training centers in Australia, New Zealand, and Vietnam, and has trained more than 1,200 wind power talent so far.

Pei Wen, dean of the School of Management of National Chung Hua University, said that offshore wind power is an important national policy in Taiwan, and at present, only Taichung and Kaohsiung have wind training centers in Taiwan. In order to respond to the government's policy, National Chung Hua University has taken into consideration that offshore of Hsinchu and Miaoli is an important wind field and the northern part of the country is more populated, so the establishment of a wind training center in Hsinchu can cultivate more talents in offshore wind power in the near vicinity, which will help to invest in the national offshore wind power major construction and expand the wind power training services provided for the northern part of the population. The wind power training center in Hsinchu can train more offshore wind power talents to participate in the major offshore wind power construction of the country, expand the provision of wind power training services to the people in the northern part of the country, and strengthen the energy for wind power development in Taiwan.

From 2022 to 2025, Taiwan will enter the peak period of offshore wind power construction. The WPD wind farm, Formosa II wind farm, CIP Changfang wind farm and West Island wind farm are all under construction, and the Hsinchu wind training base built by HISCO Energy and Chung Hwa University will provide GWO-BST training at the initial stage, and the GWO-BTT offshore wind power professional training program in the future. This program will not only enable the offshore wind power industry to start immediately during the construction phase in 2022-2025, but will also lay the foundation of talents for the future offshore wind farms in Taiwan in the 20-year operation phase.