EU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WANTS ENERGY-EFFICIENT BLDNGS IN TAIWAN.

TAIPEI, June 30 Asia Pulse - Taiwan can further improve the energy efficiency of its new and existing buildings by achieving a potential 30 per cent reduction in both energy use and carbon emissions using technologies that are already available, the European Chamber of Commerce Taipei (ECCT) said Monday.

"Taiwan should pick up its pace to catch up with the world in energy conservation by raising and instating legally binding standards to improve energy efficiency, " said Andreas Gursch, chairman of the ECCT's Energy and Environment Committee, at a news conference to release a report titled "Energy-Saving Measures for Taiwan's Built Environment".

According to Gursch, while 30 per cent would not be difficult to achieve and could be done through existing technologies, what Taiwan needed was willingness on the part of the government, entrepreneurs and the general public to work together, especially when Taiwan's building insulation standards were two times less strict than those in Europe.

The report draws on the results of a computer simulation conducted by the ECCT and National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT), as well as best practices and cutting-edge technologies from Europe, to improve the energy efficiency of new and existing buildings in Taiwan.

The results of the simulation with real climate data and typical user patterns in Taiwan show a ...