The Risk Management and Insurance Planning for Green Energy Industry-A Case Study of Offshore Wind Farm

• Main Authors: Yen-She Lin, 林彥碩
• Other Authors: 高棟梁
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kj8an9

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 保險學系保險經營碩士在職專班 === 103 === In the recent years, in order to be more aggressive in developing of Green Energy Industry, the Taiwan government has encouraged the private sector to invest infrastructure projects in related to Solar Power and Wind Power. Among these green energy projects, the Offshore Wind Power is the most challenging field. However, most of the investors and financing banks are not familiar with the risks of this new investment area. Under the circumstance, the main purpose of research in this thesis is to guide the private sector to fully understand the risk management methodology and insurance program planning of Offshore Wind Power industry and let all participators have the confidence to invest this specific area. The thesis will be incorporated with the current status of the Offshore Wind Power projects in European and then develop a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) applied to local Offshore Wind Power industry. The thesis will consolidate the opinions from the expertise of the local investors, government authority and university professor in order to give the investors and developers of Offshore Wind Power a reference in the future. We expect that the conclusions and recommendations of this thesis could help Taiwan to set up a standard risk management and insurance program planning procedure in the Offshore Wind Power industry. The thesis explores the following major recommendation for reference: 1. To provide a proper subsidies system, rewarding policies and friendly legal environment to the investors. 2. To set up an interdependent committee to co-ordinate all related government authorities in order to support this specific infrastructure project sector and to provide an information sharing platform to all participators as well. 3. To standardize insurance program planning in all phases to minimize the investment cost and project risks for the purpose of providing a proper protection environment to financial institution. 4. Talent cultivate of technical specialists in Wind Power industry so as to connect with worldwide skill.