On Nov. 24, President Ma Ying-jeou (???) met with representatives from the Crazy About Green Power Alliance. At the meeting, Ma said the government thinks green energy is important, and that it was planning to offer electricity generated from green sources (or ?green electricity?) as an option to consumers at a slightly higher cost than regular electricity. The president said he identified with the alliance?s view that we should use energy from green sources even if it is a bit more expensive, but that now was not the right time to make it compulsory.
Although he said green electricity would be slightly more expensive, the fact is that it should be cheaper than the electricity we are currently using.
On Dec. 14 and on Jan. 5, the Bureau of Energy held public meetings to explain green electricity pricing, which will come into force beginning in March.
On initial examination, this seems to be a response to public demand for a green electricity option. However, the government actually intends to eliminate the green electricity option and even reverse the Renewable Energy Development Act (????????) by deliberately increasing the price of energy from renewable resources and by not only blocking the right of green consumers to choose renewable energy, but also by choking industry?s competitiveness when it comes to cutting carbon emissions.
The government has taken no action to push for renewable energy sources. On the contrary, it deliberately inflates the procurement price for renewable energy so that investment in developing such production becomes uneconomic.
The government also blocks individuals, communities and companies that want to invest in the development of renewable energy. If government policies continue to raise obstacles for the development of renewable energy, then such energy will continue to hover at less than 1 percent of production in Taiwan.
On Nov. 24, Ma may have announced that consumers will be given the option of using green electricity, but his executive team has used the formula for calculating the price of green electricity as an excuse to illegally boost its price. Once again, they are about to succeed in blocking the development of a consumer market for renewables.
At the Jan. 5 meeting to offer a preliminary explanation of the formula for calculating the price of green electricity, representatives of the Chinese National Federation of Industries, the General Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of China and the Taipei Computer Association (TCA) rejected the proposal submitted by the Taiwan Research Institute (TRI). This was because the institute had not researched the need for green electricity among Taiwan?s electricity users and its relation to pressures from the global market.
The TCA representative provided a lot of evidence as to how the computer industry has made savings wherever it can. He also said that carbon dioxide emissions in Taiwan are much higher than in Japan, South Korea or the EU and that this will lead to a drop in competitiveness.
He added that following the crisis at Japan?s Fukushima Da-ichi Nuclear Power Plant, reducing carbon emissions by relying on nuclear power was no longer an option and the government would have to develop renewable energy to reduce emissions.
By simply dividing the NT$825 million (US$24.7 million) annual budget for the development of renewable energy by the amount of renewable energy used every year, the bureau and the TRI arrived at a price for green electricity that was 65 percent to 126 percent higher than the price of normal electricity, a cost that must be fully absorbed by consumers.
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