This Act aims at encouraging renewable energy use, promoting energy diversification, improving energy structure, reducing emission of greenhouse gases, improving environmental quality, assisting relevant industries, and enhancing sustainable development. The Act consists of 23 Articles. The domestic climate, energy demand characteristics, and the economic benefits, technological development and other factors of different renewable energies shall be considered upon promoting renewable energy power facilities. The renewable energy’s development potential and the impact on the domestic economy and stable power supply may be taken into account while setting the promotion objectives for renewable energy. Electricity enterprises and anyone equipped with self-use power generating facilities exceeding a certain installed capacity shall pay a certain amount to a fund calculated by the total power generated of its non-renewable energy for the development of renewable energy. A committee shall be established to validate the wholesale purchase rate and such calculation formula for the renewable energy power facilities’ generated electric power. The Act further makes provisions for supervision, offences and penalties, etc.
مقاطعة تايوان الصينية · 2009-07-08