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To actively promote power saving and carbon reduction related works, and to respond to “The 2014 Performance Evaluation of Low Carbon Living in Environmental Protection Bureaus of Special Municipalities and Counties/Cities” held by the Environmental Protection Administration of Executive Yuan (hereinafter shortened as EPA), Environmental Protection Bureau of Chiayi City Government (hereinafter shortened as EPB) has investigated and planned forward “The 2014 Promotion Plan for the Low Carbon Living Operations in Chiayi City” . The project involves promotions of action marks, LOHAS activities, low carbon living corporate courses and activities, power-saving volunteer trainings, low-carbon living community, greenhouse gas offset and carbon neutral related works. It is expected that, through the propagation of low-carbon life concepts and actions, all citizens will be able to implement power saving and carbon reduction related works in ordinary life.
To promote the “Power Saving and Carbon Reduction Action Marks”, qualified units were invited to join the explanation session, having the 2013 awarded units to share their experiences. Apart from encouraging corporates, civil bodies, communities, villages and neighborhoods to participate in this project with real actions, competitions and relevant activities were also taken place to sustainably promote power saving and carbon reduction measures. In 2014, 13 units were assisted to submit their applications and 9 of them were awarded by EPA after the evaluation. Among them, Ditmanson Medical Foundation of Chiayi Christian Hospital received Excellence Award and other 8 units including St. Martin De Porres Hospital, Chiayi District Sales Office of Onyx Ta-Ho Environmental Service Co., Ltd. (Chiayi County Incineration Plant), Community Management Committee of Jiang-Guo-Xin-Cheng R, Community Management Committee of Linyuan Residence, Hsintien Community Development Association, Bajian River Ecology and Development Association, Hongsacuo Community Development Association and Dongchuan Community Development Association received the Merit Awards.
The carbon reduction performance of units participated in the “Power Saving and Carbon Reduction Action Marks” shall be calculated based on the electricity emission factor of 0.522 kg CO2e per kWh announced by Bureau of Energy of Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2013 and the water emission factor of 0.156 kg CO2e per kWh announced by Taiwan Water Corporation in 2013. St. Martin De Porres Hospital has totally reduced 39,532.8 kg CO2e emission by promoting garbage recycling, replacing power saving lamps, installing variable frequency control on the chilled water pump in HVAC system, and reutilizing recycled sewage of RO drinking water unit; Chiayi Christian Hospital has totally reduced 314,090 kg CO2e emission by replacing power saving lamps, using solar energy panels, renovating high efficiency air-conditioning system, installing energy management system, replacing lavatory facilities such as stools with the water conservation mark or other water conservation facilities, and reutilizing recycled air-conditioning condensate and recycled rainwater; Chiayi County Incineration Plant has totally reduced 51,587.8 kg CO2e emission by replacing of power saving lamps, reutilizing recycled sewage, and adjusting operating hours of the plant’s ventilation system according to personnel’s working hours.
This project has held 2 explanation sessions for power saving and carbon reduction action marks, 6 “LOHAS activities”, 3 corporate courses for low carbon living, 2 repeated trainings for power-saving volunteers, 2 power saving, carbon reduction and green consumption lectures, and 12 promotional activities for low-carbon living community, where the activities’ total carbon footprint emission was 1,022.187 kg CO2e. To reduce the carbon emission, the activities were planned in low-carbon methods and the carbon reduction measures include requesting participants to ride together, avoiding offering paper document, paper cups and disposable chopsticks, and complying with the carbon neutral concept by confirming details on the EPA carbon neutral registration and management platform.
As for the promotional activities in the future, it is suggested to cooperate with school associations in order to propagate the low-carbon living concept through the students in different form and have the concept to the younger generation. It is also recommended to carry on power saving volunteer trainings, having more volunteers to implement power-saving assessment for community sites, to provide technological supports on improving communities’ power saving measures, to assist and educate citizens to change their electricity consumption habits, and to promote power saving lamps, products with environmental protection labels and solar water heaters. Besides, to reduce negative influences caused by these activities, other bureaus of the city government were also informed to implement low-carbon measures and to make registrations on the EPA platform for low-carbon activities.
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