Environmental groups have suggested that in addition to promoting the development of the energy conservation industry, the government ought to educate the public by turning the tens of thousands of local mom-and-pop electrical and plumbing shops, the kind that always have people out in the neighborhood changing light fixtures and laying wire, into community-level energy-conservation and carbon-reduction service centers.
台灣的節能工作也應深入到社區內一戶戶家庭，環保團體就曾建議，推廣節能產業時，政府應大力輔導，讓鄰里巷內到處可見會換燈管、拉電線的幾萬家小水電行師傅，成為社區裡的節能減碳服務中心。