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The Cabinet will launch a “low-carbon community” project to promote the government’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Taiwan, Premier Liu Chao-shiuan said yesterday.
The project will involve the selection of an outlying island that will become a model of a low-carbon lifestyle, with at least 50 percent of the electricity on the island supplied from renewable sources, Liu said.
The format will be expanded gradually to other communities around Taiwan, Liu said.
According to the premier, through the government’s efforts to promote green energy, electricity consumption in the country has dropped by 4.5 billion kilowatt-hours over the past year, which is equivalent to the total annual electricity consumption by Tainan City and Tainan County.
Liu made the remarks during a trip to Tainan to visit several green businesses, including E-Ton Power Tech Co., the manufacturer of Taiwan’s first li-ion battery electric vehicle, and Delta Electronics Inc., whose Tainan plant has been certified as a “diamond-class” eco-friendly building.
According to Delta Group Chairman Bruce C.H. Cheng, the plant, which has a natural ventilation system and uses natural sunlight as its primary lighting source, consumes 40 percent less electricity than a traditional building.
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