Taiwan Today
Date: July 20, 2016
Taipei 101, the tallest green-certified building in the world, recently concluded a memorandum of
TFCC Chairman Chou Te-yu Chou (fourth left) celebrates the signing of the memorandum of understanding on adopting a cloud-based energy management platform with Erdal Elver (third left), president and CEO of Siemens Ltd., Taiwan, during a recent ceremony in Taipei City. (Courtesy of German Trade Office in Taipei)
understanding on adopting a cloud-based energy management platform with Siemens Ltd., Taiwan, putting the landmark structure on the path toward becoming one of the smartest and greenest of its kind in the world.
Under the memorandum, Taipei 101 will use Siemens Navigator to monitor its energy supply, demand and system performance, as well as produce advanced analytical reports based on building-generated data. This is expected to optimize efficiency, save costs and assist in the development of sustainable energy management strategies.
Chou Te-yu, chairman of Taipei 101 management firm Taipei Financial Center Corp., said July 13 that innovative technologies such as navigator help create a more comfortable, safer and energy-friendly environment for tenants and visitors. “We aim to make Taipei 101 the global benchmark when it comes to efficient energy management and reducing impact on the environment.”
Echoing Chou’s remarks, Eugene Chien—chairman of Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy—said upgrading building energy management is critical if Taiwan is to play its part in keeping a global temperature rise this century below 2 C and driving efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels, a main aim of the agreement reached at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris last December. [FULL STORY]