“Energy Saving and Carbon Reduction” can be seen as a silent social revolution to change current environmental ethics. Everyone should understand that natural resources are not unlimited and the necessity of adopting energy saving concepts into current lifestyle is urgent. To raise public energy awareness, Taiwanese government has implemented series of policies including the promotion and education of public behavior change and the transformation of industrial structure. These government policies have been promoted via all kinds of media channels to reinforce the concepts of energy saving and carbon reduction. In order to further improve public energy awareness, this project consisted of three main parts: public survey, regional seminars, and research on domestic and foreign experiences. The public survey results showed that the degree of policy awareness can be a significant positive influence on self energy-saving practices. Besides, this survey included multiple background characteristics analysis of respondents such as sex, age, profession, and residence. Among all the respondents, students, young people and elders, and non-metropolitan residents care more about product price, while housekeepers, females and elders are more likely to change their usual lifestyle. It was concluded after five regional seminars including Taipei, Taichung, Penghu, Hualien, and Kaohsiung that the energy awareness promotions from local governments and social groups were especially important to non-metropolitan residents and that it was necessary to strengthen the promotion to public sectors. Moreover, people who attended the seminars all expected to have continuous and intensive local energy-saving promotion seminars in the future. At present the promotion measures of Taiwanese energy-saving policies are similar to international measures. However, it would be much more improved with complete planning and integrated periodical evaluations. With central energy-saving information platform, countrywide energy-saving promotion network of local energy-saving offices and community volunteers, and enormous coverage of related information in media, the public energy awareness could be largely improved and thus lead the country to low-carbon society.

Energy Efficiency;Public Energy Awareness