This project assists the Promotion Office of Low Carbon City in Taichung in operating and designs the related measures, including 6 completed actions from 3 directions: 1.) green transportation, 2.) the tools of law, economics and finances, and 3.) the science of social behavior and evaluation tools. Four seasonal project reports, regarding the analyses of feasibilities of technology and finance, the analyses of reproduction, etc., have been finished. We coordinated with Environmental Protection Administration to build a integration platform which implement the central living circle and promote the low carbon sustainable policies. To learn from the experiences of building low carbon cities, we held low carbon city forums. Experts from China and Singapore and 4 low carbon cities of Taiwan were invited. We also have many plans to promote the low carbon ideas for the government officials dealing with the related businesses, to drive the low carbon industries(wind energy, solar energy and intelligent green buildings), and to exchange the experiences with other local governments(electrical bus, green buildings and low carbon tours). All of these plans could help citizens understand the ideas of low carbon and built a communication platform for low carbon cities and industries. Eight activities have been accomplished, and two more activities have been scheduled. We suggest these two activities should be held in the future. Furthermore, for the purpose of citizens' realization, we propagated the related policies and the determination to citizens of Taichung and related staff by ways of press conferences, press releases, website constructions, public meetings, and quarterly discussion meetings. Moreover, this project proposed two major related measures for the high schools and elementary schools in Taichung city: "Accreditation of low carbon campus" and "Proposal for saving energy in lighting". We also proposed "Guidance of applying for accreditation of low carbon campus in Taichung city" and "Project for performance guarantee of saving energy in schools". We gathered the content of the technology verification from energy service companies(ESCO) and completed 30 diagnostic proposals for saving energy in school, including the performance assessment of saving energy, the following maintenance, and the verification systems. After these measurements are put into practice, 1,619,475kwh of electricity will be saved and 991,119kg of carbon emissions will be reduced. Technologically speaking, the implement of ESCO is feasible, but it requires the permit from financial and accounting departments of the authorities and the budget to implement the following key work. Due to the lack of coordination, we cannot assist 10 schools to sign the "Project for performance guarantee of saving energy" timely. However, we have built the management platform which help 30 schools with the performance of electricity usage. This could be used as a basis to implement "Project for performance guarantee of saving energy" for schools. For the sake of encouraging schools to implement low carbon campuses, this project assisted 64 schools in Taichung city to apply for the accreditation of low carbon campus. We help schools with the self-evaluation, on-site inspection, assessment reports and the following consultations. It is estimated that the 64 schools we assisted will save 199075KWh of electricity and reduce 121834 kg of carbon emissions per year. If all the 309 schools in Taichung city could implement these measures, it is estimated that 1532649 KWh of electricity will be saved and 937981 kg of carbon emissions will be reduced in total. Because the planned schedule could not be accomplished, these goals still remain unfinished. Therefore, we provide the achievements of current phase to be used as references to the following work.

Taichung、low carbon city、low carbon campuse、LCSS、ESCO