The Risk Society and Policy Research Center (RSPRC) conducted a survey in April 2020 and found that Taiwanese hold increasingly favorable attitudes toward Taiwan's energy transition; and that as part of the government's COVID-19 relief measures, companies should also be required to adopt green measures to take this opportunity to transform Taiwan's economy into a greener one.

On 24 November 2018, Taiwan held three referendums on energy-related issues,which were all passed. The three questions asked if the public agreed that theelectricity output of thermal power plants should be lowered by at least 1 percentevery year (under question 7), that Taiwan should prohibit the construction