The liberalization of the electricity industry has become a term that countries will mention when implementing sustainable development policies. And what does this term mean? This must be explained from the problems encountered before the liberalization of the electricity industry. In Taiwan, the only company that can operate the power market is the Taiwan Power Company, which owns the rights, and Taiwan Power ’s equity is basically invested by the state. Therefore, under the deployment of the country, the power market tends to change because of the changing times. Derive problems of different nature.

For example, because the power market is exclusively owned by the Taiwan Power Company's comprehensive power industry, and there is no relevant stakeholder as a benchmark for comparison, the performance of the power market will not be able to be completely monitored by legal sources. This will be the first problem encountered in the operation of the power market, and also an opportunity to open up the free market for the power industry.

Then, due to the development of science and technology, renewable energy, coexistence of steam and electricity; and the industrial structure of private power plants. However, under the current regulations, the power generation of renewable energy, gas and electricity co-producers, and private power plants can only sell electricity to Taiwan Power Company, allowing Taiwan Power Company to purchase it at a uniform price. Often, there will be contract disputes and prices when purchasing. Controversy.

The current situation does not allow power generators to have better incentive policies or related subsidies because of their own power output. This is also a factor that needs to be regulated in the liberalization of the power industry. How to make all the people in the power market get their own remuneration is the need to be solved by regulations.

The last is the unity of power sales. Because Taipower has unified control of the power generation, transmission, and power sales pipelines, it can only be purchased with the Taiwan Power Company in terms of power sales. If there are changes in electricity prices, it will often trigger Public opinion. This is not much different from the situation encountered in the power generation industry, so the liberalization of the power industry came into being.

Therefore, the implementation of the electricity industry law is to let the power generation industry, the power transmission industry, and the electricity sales industry no longer be in the hands of the Taiwan Electric Power Company alone, and gradually promote the generation of electricity and the electricity sales industry to allow people to participate. However, the power transmission industry is still operated by the Taiwan Electric Power Corporation itself, but the management is strengthened. Subsequently, the power generation industry and the electricity sales industry gradually turned into retail industries, which allowed the public to choose the companies they needed to buy electricity, and finally derived an emerging market structure.

Therefore, the electric power regulatory authorities mentioned in the regulations will become very important under the framework of the free market, because they have to consider the energy ratio, the dispute resolution of the electric power industry, ensure the rights and interests of consumers, and verify Responsibility for electricity prices and various charging rates and their calculation formulas, so if there is no good standard, the electricity industry will be full of unpredictable gray areas.

The management details are implemented by the two major units of the electricity tariff review committee and the electricity industry commission. And such new business regulations are also for people who are going to engage in the legal industry in Taiwan in the future. They will have the opportunity to study competition law issues. How to mediate between markets and let all businesses be exposed to rain and dew is a major issue that legal personnel will need to deal with in the future.

Reference:

https://electricitylaw.tier.org.tw/1050726%E9%9B%BB%E6%A5%AD%E6%B3%95%E4%BF%AE%E6%AD%A3%E8%8D%89%E6%A1%88%E6%A2%9D%E6%96%87.pdf