AUO's Post-8.5 Generation Plant Receives the World's First LEED Platinum Level Certification

AUO announced on the 19th that its 8.5th generation plant in Zhongke Houli Base in Taiwan has become the world’s first TFT-LCD green plant to receive LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) platinum certification from the US Green Building Association. Following the LEED Gold certification of the first 8.5-generation plant of the Zhongke Taichung Base and the Tianjin Solar Module Plant, AUO has continued to promote the concept of source design. At the beginning of the plant planning, it will introduce various environmental protection and energy-saving designs for the green plant. AUO's innovative green competitiveness has been further enhanced, and it has finally won the platinum-level top honor of global green building design.

AUO Zhongke Houli Plant is currently the only LEED Platinum-grade factory in the world, and it is currently the largest green plant in the world. The LEED-certified buildings are mainly commercial buildings and government buildings. There are only eight high-tech plants in the world that have received LEED certification. Among them, AU Optronics has three seats, including a platinum-class and two gold-class green buildings.

Peng Shuanglang, executive deputy general manager of AUO's display business, stated: “We are very honored to have the 8.5-generation plant of AUO become the world’s first LEED Platinum-class technology plant under the certification of the US Green Building Association. This time apart from energy and water efficiency In addition to the full score of the evaluation project, AUO has also received a highly appraised evaluation project for innovation. The outstanding achievement comes from the team's unremitting efforts to comprehensively inspect and analyze the plant's construction, production, plant and equipment and other aspects. Actual energy demand, in order to explore more energy-saving space, and to design new systems with courageous changes, adjust the process to optimize energy efficiency, and ultimately create a green peak of AUO.”

LEED Project Consultant Prof. Li Kuipeng of National Taipei University of Technology also stated that adjustments and changes in manufacturing processes in high-tech factory buildings are often triggered by the whole body, posing potential risks to manufacturers. However, AUO has the courage to self-drive and continuously break through the existing green achievements. This is undoubtedly the most difficult place to challenge the world's first Platinum certification process.

In order to meet the stringent standards for LEED Platinum certification, AUO continued to break through its multiple challenges. Compared with the US Refrigeration Air Conditioning Association Standard (ASHRAE 90.1) adopted by LEED, in terms of energy management, the overall energy efficiency of the 8.5-generation plant after AUO reached 49.7%, which is comparable to that of the same-generation LEED Gold-certified plant. The benefits increase by as much as 11.7%. AUO has continued to invest in the research and design of energy optimization solutions, such as the use of innovative digital management platforms such as “digital power meters and meters” to strengthen the management of the use of water and electricity; based on the different needs of the machine, a double-pressure compressed air system is designed. The comparable single-pressure system saves about 40 million kWh; at the same time, it adopts the best efficiency air-conditioning system in the industry to replace the single-process energy-saving plan with an optimized process energy-saving system.

In addition to energy-saving equipment, AUO actively planted and reduced carbon, planting more than 34,000 trees in the Houli plant area; the plant area has been fully expanded with efficient, mercury-free LED lighting; environmental protection and shared parking spaces have been established, and The exclusive bicycle parking spaces and the Houli factory dormitories are also the first to install solar panels of 30kW to supply electricity to the dormitory. Each year its power generation capacity can supply nearly 320 households' daily electricity consumption. Under the overall energy-saving measures, compared with the standards adopted by LEED, a total of 600 million kWh of electricity can be saved annually, and the overall annual carbon reduction is about 400,000 tons, equivalent to a year's carbon absorption of 57 Beijing Olympic Forest Park. Stock.

In terms of water resources management, the AUO Zhongke Houli Plant's process water recycling rate is as high as 90%; the plant roof is used to collect rainwater in 600 tons of recovery tanks, and air-conditioning condensate water is recovered as a planting water source; toilet toilet water 100% use recycled water; it is estimated that a total of about 13 million tons of tap water can be used each year, which is equivalent to 6,500 standard pools. In addition to the existing plant water recycling equipment, WIS-Water Inter-use System has been designed so that different equipment can be reused without water recycling. water. It is estimated that a total of about 300,000 tons of tap water can be used each year, equivalent to 150 standard pools.

As a green corporate citizen, AUO will continue to uphold the concept of sustainable development and promote the LEED green building standard to all new construction sites in the future. We hope to share the experience of source design and combine the strengths of upstream and downstream suppliers and customers. At the same time as the new vision of consumers, it is also committed to maintaining the purity and beauty of the earth.