本篇中英文節錄自《台灣光華雜誌》
九十八年十月第三十四卷第十期
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According to the Research Center for Environmental Changes at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan's average temperature has risen by 1.4°C over the last 100 years, more than twice the rise of 0.6°C in average temperatures worldwide. Clearly, climate change is a
particularly pressing issue for Taiwan.
The Taiwan Green
Productivity Foundation (TGPF) is home to an unusual
institution—Taiwan's first carbon reduction
clinic. The 10 "doctors" working at the clinic
specialize in treating one of the ills of
civilization: energy waste in commercial and
residential high-rise buildings.
Created by TGPF
at the request of the Taipei County Environmental Protection Bureau, the clinic exists to provide free energy-conservation
consultations for the purpose of building a low-carbon society.
Enthusiastically received by the public since it opened in 2008, the clinic's popularity
stems partly
from the fact that "patients" can
consult with experts in six fields with just a single appointment,
addressing their building's electrical,
ventilation, lighting, water use, recycling, and heat
exposure problems all at the same time.
The carbon doctors begin their
diagnosis by looking at a patient's "
medical record": the power bill. "Many people don't realize that there's an art to reading a power bill," says Lin Kuan-chia, one of TGPF's managers. He explains that TaiPower uses
multiple formulas to
calculate its customers' electrical bills. A typical
household pays a per-unit rate
multiplied by the number of units on the
meter. Therefore, for the general public, saving power simply means remembering to
turn off lights and
unplug electronics that aren't in use. But the company's "contract customers," which include the
communal facilities in
multi-unit residential buildings, commercial high-rise buildings, hospitals, schools, and factories,
are subject to three different rates—
peak,
off-peak, and
semi-peak.
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