Refining Environmental Sustainability Strategy
Taipower is committed to minimizing the negative environmental impacts of its operations while maximizing positive impacts on the surrounding society and environment. In addition to conducting good neighbor activities at various power plants—such as organizing beach cleanups, fish fry releases, and green space adoption—Taipower continuously promotes environmental education. Furthermore, prior to power plant expansions and unit additions, Taipower rigorously evaluates environmental factors and carries out in-depth communication with local stakeholders, achieving a win-win-win situation for society, environment, and Taipower.
Highlights of Taipower's Environmental Policy Performance
| Strategy Focus | Specific Meaning | 2025 Highlights |
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| Responding to Climate Change | Focus on climate adaptation and energy transition, climate risk and carbon asset management, smart climate applications, and the transition toward climate neutrality. Taipower continues to promote the development of a low-carbon power system and to enhance overall climate resilience and power system response capabilities. |
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| Safeguarding Environmental Quality | Focus on pollution control, landscape creation, resource circulation, near zero emissions, circular economy implementation, and environmental quality protection. Through environmentally friendly design and management practices, Taipower reduces the impacts of power facilities on the environment and human health. |
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| Creating Ecological Integration | Focus on ecological inclusiveness at power facilities, digital monitoring and digital applications, value chain symbiosis, and nature-positive growth. Taipower continues to promote ecological planning, habitat creation, biodiversity conservation, and local communication at power facility sites. |
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Environmental Accounting
In 2008, Taipower implemented an environmental accounting system that categorizes environmental expenses into capital and recurring expenses, tracked via activity-specific codes during procurement or reimbursement. In 2025, Taipower's environmental investments totaled approximately NT$5.160 billion in capital expenditures and NT$4.233 billion in recurring expenses, reflecting ongoing commitments to facilities and daily operations.
Improving Energy and Resource Use Efficiency in Operations
Taipower tracks energy, resource, and waste flows across operational units using its Material Flow Management Information System to optimize efficiency. In 2025, regional offices and power plants executed government energy and water reduction plans under the General Management Office' leadership. The company enforces monthly performance tracking for water, electricity, and fuel usage while continuously upgrading equipment and optimizing facility operations.
Taipower's Use of Fuels
In-Plant Power Consumption Status of All Thermal Power Plants
Management of Non-Production Resources
On the production side, Taipower continues to promote the management of non-production resources in addition to energy and resource management. For offices, dormitories, affiliated facilities, official vehicles, and related activities, Taipower implements water, electricity, fuel, and paper conservation measures to reduce the environmental impact of daily operations.
In 2025, Taipower continued to support energy and water conservation programs promoted by the Executive Yuan and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, strengthening the management mechanism through monthly tracking of water, electricity, fuel, and other energy and resource use, together with annual performance evaluations. Using 2024 as the base year, Taipower set targets for company-wide non-production electricity and water use, aiming for 'no increase in consumption'. In 2025, electricity consumption was 119.50 million kWh, and water consumption was 1.2905 million metric tons, both meeting the annual targets.
Electricity and Water Use and Resource Recycling at Taipower Headquaters
Results of Non-Productive Resource Management
01 Water Conservation
- Resource Optimization: Prioritizes products with water conservation labels and promotes the reuse of rainwater, condensate, and vegetable washing water.
- Leak Control: Replaces old fixtures in line with government policies and strengthens pipeline leak inspections.
02 Electricity Conservation
- Equipment Upgrade: Purchases Level 1 energy-efficient or certified energy-saving products and systematically replaces aging units.
- HVAC Management: Maintains indoor temperatures at 26°C–28°C with circulating fans, elevates chilled water temperatures, and shuts down chillers 30 minutes before off-hours.
- Smart Operation: Uses energy-saving modes for elevators/office gear and auto-shutdown software for PCs after hours.
03 Fuel Conservation
- Fleet Efficiency: Promotes carpooling, enforces routine vehicle maintenance, and accelerates EV replacement.
- HQ Performance: Reduced the General Management Office fuel consumption by 2,981 liters in 2025 compared to 2024.
04 Paper Conservation
- Digitalization: Reached 70% electronic document exchange and 85% online approval rates.
- Resource Saving: Enforced double-sided printing, saving approximately 3.47 million sheets of paper.