Renewable Energy Development Act Article 18

When necessary, the central competent authority may require installers of renewable energy power generation equipment to provide operation information of such facilities and send employees or mandate professional institutions to carry out the inspections, and the aforesaid installers shall not evade, impede, or refuse such inspection.Enterprises referred to in Subparagraph 2 of Paragraph 2 of Article 7 that are equipped with self-use non-renewable energy power generation equipment exceeding a certain installed capacity shall compile its business conditions into abbreviated monthly reports and further compile annual reports within three months after the end of each business year to submit to the central competent authority for recordation. The central competent authority may request such enterprises to provide supplementary explanations or send personnel to carry out inspections, and the self-use power generation equipment installers shall not evade, impede, or refuse such requests or inspections.Electricity retailing enterprises and electricity transmission and distribution enterprises operating according to Paragraph 6 of Article 7 and Article 10 shall compile a report containing relevant information regarding the amount of electricity generated from non-renewable energy, the amount of electricity generated from renewable energy that they purchase at wholesale, the cost of purchasing electricity generated from renewable energy, and the cost of bolstering the power grid to submit to the central competent authority according to the preceding paragraph. The central competent authority may request such enterprises to provide supplementary explanations or send personnel to carry out inspections, and the self-use power generation equipment installers shall not evade, impede, or refuse such requests or inspections.The inspection methods and report format referred to in the preceding three paragraphsshall be prescribed by the central competent authority.