506 enterprises use large amounts of electricity, using 35% of the electricity of the whole station, but resist the establishment of renewable energy, and the ring group calls for responsibility as soon as possible.

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In order to implement the national energy transformation policy and corporate energy responsibility, the Renewable Energy Development Ordinance was amended in 2019 to include the provision for enterprises with super large electricity to build and use renewable energy, which is called the "large electricity user clause". The Ministry of Economic Affairs originally defined major electricity users as manufacturers whose electricity consumption exceeded 800KW, and the estimated number was 5400. Then, under the lobbying pressure of industrial and commercial groups, citing the epidemic, operational difficulties, and other reasons, the threshold was lowered to 5000KW, and the number of manufacturers requiring the construction of renewable energy decreased sharply to 506.

In addition to substantially "pardoning" the obligation of large power users to bear the obligation of energy transformation, due to lobbying and pressure from industrial and commercial groups, the Ministry of Economic Affairs has even postponed the original deadline for getting on the road from 2025 to 2027. Huantuan held a press conference today (9) with legislators to call on "big power users not to be nail households!" We should take up social responsibility as soon as possible.

According to Greenpeace analysis, the provision of large electricity users under the current draft has little impact on the cost of enterprises. Greenpeace provides 506 major electricity users, using 35% of Taiwan's electricity, but resists the construction of renewable energy.

Gao Ruping, chairman of Taiwan Renewable Energy Promotion Alliance, pointed out that as the concept of corporate social and energy responsibility becomes more and more common, 154international brands such as APPLE and Google have joined the RE100 (100% Renewable Energy) initiative, requiring the supply chain to use a certain percentage of green energy to increase the willingness of the government and the private sector to develop renewable energy with the purchasing power of enterprises. Because global investors have begun to pay more and more attention to corporate utilization energy ratio, using environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) indicators to measure corporate coping capacity, and examine the impact of climate risk on corporate or financing project balance sheet.

Gao also criticized that the 506 major domestic electricity users, which use more electricity than 5000kw, account for 35% of Taiwan's total, but go against the trend and continue to resist repeated requests for postponement of the road, which makes the private and ring groups feel very disappointed with representatives of the industrial and commercial sector, such as the Federation of Industry and Commerce and the Association for the Promotion of Industry and Commerce. The sense of urgency for climate change is getting closer and closer, and Gao Ruping is also choking: "the weather is so hot, can these big electricity users sleep at night?"