The Bank published the “Energy Management Policy” on the internal corporate website. The Policy includes “annual energy conservation goals”, “evaluation and improvement program“, and ”regular review of implementation status“. The specific method includes regularly tracking the water and electricity consumption of each unit, enhancing energy conservation awareness, and holding energy saving lectures for employees and participating in energy saving promotion activities from time to time. In terms of external stakeholders, we continue to influence suppliers, customers, and the general public through procurement contracts,energy-saving loans, and environmental education programs.

The achievements and implementation measures of energy management policies formulated by TBB are outlined in the following chapter:

• The Bank has implemented water-saving and power-saving measures since 2010 in line with the government’s energy conservation and carbon reduction policies with significant energy-saving results. To save more electricity and due to the recent impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the domestic economy, TBB is actively responding to the government’s policy on economic stimulation, and has expanded capital expenditures to replace energy-consuming equipment at various locations. During 2019 to 2021, more than 100 high-efficiency air conditioners, air-conditioning units, and cooling towers were installed at business units. It is estimated that the around 10% of the power can be saved after the replacement. This has demonstrated that TBB supports domestic enterprises and the green energy industry through actions.
• In 2021, TBB completed the second bank-wide office lighting replacement project, through which LED lamps certified with the latest Energy-saving Mark were adopted. More than 29,000 lamps were replaced, which greatly reduced the power consumption from lighting at business premises. Each year, the entire bank saves around 1.717 million kWh of electricity and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 862 metric tons, contributing to energy conservation, carbon reduction, and environmental protection. (based on our country’s electricity carbon emission coefficient of 0.502kg CO2e/kWh in 2020)
• TBB promotes the informatization of electricity consumption at energy-consuming locations, and has installed digital meters at 15 business premises, including the head office, Chongnan Building, Linkou Server Room, and Songshan Branch, to control electricity consumption so as to reduce electricity costs.
• The head office building has adopted the iEN energy management system to continue to monitor the air-conditioning, lighting, and power system of the entire building. We learn about the energy usage efficiency of the entire building through data analyses and continue to uncover the potential for energy conservation. The implementation of this project has increased energy conservation rate by more than 37.2%. Compared to the total electricity consumption in kWh in the year which was used as the baseline, we saved approximately 377,000 kWh of electricity (equivalent to 1.357MJ) in 2021. We reduced carbon emissions by 189 tons and saved approximately NT$1.13 million in electricity costs each year.
• In the event of equipment anomaly in the energy management system of the head office, the computer actively sends an SMS and email to notify personnel to take immediate actions and effectively reduce equipment damage and the impact of the disaster. Variable frequency air-conditioning units can save substantial amounts of electricity in summer. Coupled with the use of LED lights, we have reduced the contract capacity of the building for 2 consecutive periods and the head office building is no longer considered a major energy user (lower than 750kW) with significant results in energy conservation. In 2021, the replacement of 8 elevators in the Head Office have been outsourced, which will be upgraded to energy-storage elevators successively to further improve energy saving.
• In recent years, the Bank has been striving for energy conservation. Besides Chu Pei Branch which won the Excellence Award (first prize) in the Commercial Building Group in the “Service Industry Excellent Power Conservation Award Program” organized by Hsinchu County Government, the Head Office building of the Bank also won the recommendation award of Industry and Commerce Group B of the “Leadership Award for Energy Conservation” of Taipei City Government in 2021, reaffirming the Bank’s efforts in continuously implementing energy conservation and carbon reduction and promoting the sustainable environment.
• TBB actively participate in energy conservation promotion and education. We post energy-saving posters and energy-saving slogans in various business places, cooperate with policies to promote energy-saving, promote energy-saving deeds at the branches, and share the energy conservation experience of each unit and a collection of energy-saving promotion activities in our internal quarterly publication. The head office prepared a manual for air-conditioning equipment panels to allow our fellow colleagues to understand how to set the air-conditioning temperature at 26˚C and to adjust outdoor lighting and advertising lights in line with the sunrise, sunset, and each season. During the planning of renovation projects or the procurement of business equipment, we pay attention to energy efficiency and participate in energy-saving seminars and observation activities outside the Bank.

Short - term：1% carbon reducing across the bank in 2023 compared to 2022.

Medium-term：3% carbon reducing across the bank in 2026 compared to the base-year(2020).

Long-term：5% carbon reducing across the bank in 2031 compared to the base-year(2020).

• TBB formulates budgets each year and prioritizes the purchase of products that meet energy conservation marks or similar levels of efficiency for water and electricity use and other equipment. We shall replace old air-conditioning and water usage equipment with new ones that have higher efficiency. TBB requires all units to record the quantity and cost of electricity and water used in each period, and compare them with the same period of the previous year to immediately respond to anomalies. In the renovation of TBB’s premises, we adopt water-saving products such as water dispenser, water-saving toilets and water-saving gaskets installed on faucets, and in conducting the faucet renewal project of the head office, automatic sensor faucets were adopted instead. After the equipment is improved, the water consumption is reduced by 50%, and the per capita water consumption is reduced from 23.39 (cubic meter/person-year) to 21.92 (cubic meter/person-year). Dedicated personnel and maintenance manufacturers would regularly inspect or maintain water equipment, so as to reduce the cleaning frequency of official vehicles.