Taiwan Energy Security and Anti-Embargo Act of 2025
The Taiwan Energy Security and Anti-Embargo Act of 2025 is a Senate bill designed to strengthen Taiwan’s energy resilience and deter coercion by diversifying and securing energy supplies. It prioritizes expanding U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Taiwan, building and hardening energy infrastructure, and increasing cooperation on cybersecurity, physical security, and redundancy for Taiwan’s energy systems. The bill also advances a policy framework to explore Taiwan’s use of nuclear energy (including new reactor technologies) and creates insurance tools to support vital goods shipments to Taiwan and other strategic partners in the face of coercive maritime threats. Implementation would involve cooperation through the Taiwan Relations Act framework, oversight by several congressional committees, and new coordinated activities among the State, Defense, and Energy departments, plus private-sector partners. Key components include a new Part 8 to the Taiwan Enhanced Resilience Act, which outlines LNG export promotion, resilience capacity building with Taiwan, an optional US–Taiwan Energy Security Center, annual reporting to Congress, and expanded training for critical energy infrastructure protection. The bill also adds to nuclear energy findings and policy guidance, and it creates authority to insure vessels transporting vital goods to Taiwan or other strategic partners if doing so serves U.S. strategic interests. The Alaska LNG project is referenced as part of the broader energy-security context, signaling ties between U.S. energy exports and Taiwan’s security needs.
Key Points
- 1LNG exports to Taiwan: The Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Energy, must prioritize increased U.S. LNG exports to Taiwan and address barriers to export, storage, and related infrastructure; streamlined permitting and regulatory processes are to be pursued in coordination with Taiwan.
- 2Energy infrastructure resilience capacity building: Within 180 days of enactment, the State Department (with Defense and Energy) must engage Taiwan’s government agencies to plan capacity-building activities (cybersecurity, physical security, redundancy, continuity of operations, joint training, and workforce development) and may establish a US–Taiwan Energy Security Center in the United States. Assistance would go through the American Institute in Taiwan, with appropriate notification under existing aid laws.
- 3Annual reporting and oversight: The Secretary of State, with Commerce, Energy, and Defense, must annually report to Congress for three years on actions taken, barriers to LNG exports and energy-cooperation, effectiveness of capacity-building, and recommendations to expand bilateral energy cooperation.
- 4Nuclear energy considerations: The bill lays out findings supporting continued use and development of nuclear energy in Taiwan (including Gen III+ and small modular reactors) and calls for intensified U.S.–Taiwan cooperation on nuclear energy to boost energy security and job creation in the United States.
- 5Insurance for vital shipments: The Secretary of Transportation may insure or reinsure vessels transporting critical energy, humanitarian, or other goods to Taiwan or other strategic partners if it deters coercive maritime behavior and supports vital commerce, with a broader set of conditions exempted from normal restrictions in certain cases.