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1.Adopted and promulgated by the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection, Ministry of Economic Affairs on 13 July 2022.
2.Amended and promulgated by the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection, Ministry of Economic Affairs on 29 December 2023.
3.Amended and promulgated by the Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection, Ministry of Economic Affairs on 21 April 2026. |
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1. This operating procedure is enacted to help small and medium-sized enterprises to obtain
renewable energy. For this purpose, the Bureau of Standards, Metrology & Inspection, Ministry of
Economic Affairs (hereinafter referred to as this Bureau) is to provide, through the platform of
National Renewable Energy Certification Center (hereinafter referred to as Certification Center), the
matchmaking services for the public or state-owned enterprises to lease the land for the construction
of solar photovoltaic power generation equipment case (hereinafter referred to as the land rental
bidding case) in accordance with the contract for the release of renewable energy and renewable
energy certificate (hereinafter referred to as the Certificate).
2. The terms used in this Operating Procedure are defined as follows:
(1) The term “Seller” shall refer to the successful bidder participating in the land rental bidding
case.
(2) The term “Buyer” shall refer to the small and medium-sized enterprises that meet the standards
for the identification as small and medium-sized enterprises.
(3) The term “Matchmaking” shall refer to the Certification Center platform, where the supply and
demand information of renewable energy power and certificate is provided, and buyers and sellers
are assisted to conduct transactions through bidding.
3. In order to assist in the handling of the land rental bidding case, this Bureau shall form a working
group to decide the basic price for the offered capacity or energy for electricity wheeling, the
contract period and other related matters.
The working group mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be composed of members from this
Bureau, the Energy Administration of Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Small and Medium
Enterprise and Startup Administration of Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Department of
State-owned Enterprise Affairs of Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Administration of Commerce
of Ministry of Economic Affairs and the lessor.
4. The sellers and buyers participating in the matchmaking shall be approved by the Certification
Center and become members of the Certification Center platform before they are granted with the
matchmaking qualifications.
The seller shall notify this Bureau in writing within 15 days after obtaining the notification letter of
completion of grid connection issued by the power transmission and distribution vendor(s) and
apply to this Bureau for a renewable energy certificate according to the application and management
operating procedures for renewable energy certificate.
5. Matchmaking matters shall be handled as follows:
(1) After receiving the written notice from the seller for the handling of the green electricity
matchmaking transaction, the working group shall decide the basic price for the capacity or energy
to be offered for electricity wheeling of the land rental bidding case, the offered capacity, the
contract period and other related matters.
(2) After the working group completes the work stipulated in the preceding paragraph, this Bureau
shall announce the site under matchmaking and the relevant processing schedule, and notify the
seller to provide the instructions to tenderers and template of the power purchase agreement; in the
meantime, notify the buyer to register the required information.
(3) Within twenty-one days from the start date of the pre-registration announcement declared by this
Bureau, the buyer shall log in the Certification Center platform for pre-registration and provide the
following information:
A. Documents certifying that it meets the qualifications of the small and medium-sized enterprises.
B. The electricity bill payment certificate issued by Taiwan Power Company (hereinafter referred to
as Taipower) or the electricity bill and bill data downloaded from the MyData platform for the
previous year.
C. Record of annual electricity demand.
(4) The Certification Center shall complete the review of the buyer’s qualification within fourteen
days after the buyer pre-registration. To confirm the buyer's qualification and the electricity
consumption of the previous year, this Bureau may ask the Small and Medium Enterprise and
Startup Administration of Ministry of Economic Affairs and TaiPower to assist in the review.
(5) The Certification Center shall log in to the platform the offered volume, basic price, saleable
period and other precautions, and notify the qualified buyers to participate in the bidding.
6. Buyer's bidding regulations as follows:
(1) The buyer shall participate in the bidding according to the schedule declared by this Bureau.
(2) The buyer's bidding electricity capacity shall be limited to 30% of his or her electricity
consumption in the previous year. A buyer that has been awarded a bid but has not executed the
contract may not submit another bid. For a buyer that has executed a contract, the maximum bid
quantity shall be reduced by the quantity previously awarded.
(3) The buyer shall confirm and agree with the seller's login information before bidding.
(4) The unit price per unit of the bidding price shall be rounded to the fourth place below the
decimal point.
(5) During the bidding period, a buyer may, after submitting its bid quantity and price, make no
more than two changes, including amendments or withdrawal of the bid.
7. Under the premise that the bid price is higher than the basic price, this Bureau shall matchmake
the bidding transactions in accordance with the bid price rankings of the buyers, that is, the bidder
offering the highest price being the first for the matchmaking and the second priority going to the
second highest price bidder, and so on.
If two or more buyers bid the same price, the priority shall be determined according to the time
when the bid has been completed.
8. After the bidding process is completed, the Certification Center shall notify the seller and buyer
of the matchmaking result.
The seller and the buyer shall sign a contract according to the matchmaking result. The seller shall
submit the renewable energy power purchase agreement to the Certification Center within six
months from the date of receipt of the matchmaking result for the application of the transfer of
certificate. However, if there are justifiable reasons, a maximum of two extensions may be applied
to the Certification Center, and each extension period is limited to six months.
If the submission is overdue or fails to submit after extension, the matchmaking result shall be
cancelled.
9. If the buyer has one of the following circumstances, after being confirmed by the Certification
Center, his or her qualification for winning the bid shall be cancelled and he or she shall be
restricted from using the matchmaking function of the Certification Center platform within one
year:
(1) Manipulate or interfere with matchmaking.
(2) Other behaviors that affect the matchmaking service.
When the buyer's bid-winning qualification is cancelled due to the circumstances in the preceding
paragraph, the other qualified bid-winning buyer qualifications shall be still retained for renewal.
If the seller or buyer refuses to sign the contract for reasons that are not attributable to each other
after the matchmaking result, the preceding two paragraphs shall apply mutatis mutandis.
10. After the seller sells to Taipower, according to the wholesale contract, the remaining electricity
shall be auctioned in the next matchmaking bidding schedule according to the decision of the
working group. The remaining electricity refers to power that has not been released in previous
bidding round, as well as capacity and electricity volume that has not been matchmade in
accordance with the preceding three articles or due to the cancelation of the matchmaking result or
disqualification of the buyer's bid. |