| 英文摘要 |
From the perspective of the guarantee responsibility of the state, this article investigates the legislative issues derived from financial subsidization for incentivizing and developing renewable energy to achieve Taiwan’s energy transformation. Modeling off the Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz of Germany, Taiwan’s legislature has adopted the feed-in tariff system in the Renewable Energy Development Act. At the beginning of incentivizing renewable energy, such a way of financial subsidization can indubitably yield a big success. As financial subsidization of renewable energy and electricity tariffs increase are two sides of the same coin, when renewable energy develops to a certain extent, the system design should return from the incentivization perspective to the market competition mechanism. Take Germany for example; the German government began with the statutory feed-in tariff system, with direct market sales as an exception. In addition to switching the position of both mechanisms later, the German government has added the bidding mechanism. By contrast, Taiwan, claiming to model the practice of Germany, maintains the feed-in tariff mechanism to incentivize and develop renewable energy and control the quantity and price of renewable energy with bidding as a secondary means to mitigate the burden of financial subsidization. Compared to Germany which explicitly specifies the types of renewable energy required for bidding, Taiwan interprets the bidding practice based on related provisions in the Renewable Energy Development Act and further establishes executive rules outside the existing laws and regulations to form a bidding mechanism. Given the dubitability of the mechanism’s suitability, this article aims to take the initiative to catch more public attention to the issues concerned. |
