Last year, the Taipei County Environmental Protection Bureau awarded 100 neighborhoods subsidies of NT $ 20,000 each to replace energy-wasting lights, reducing those neighborhoods 'energy costs by an estimated NT $ 5.58 million. It expanded the program to 500 neighborhoods this year, routing interested communities' applications through the Carbon Reduction Clinic.
去年台北縣環保局補助縣內 100 個社區（每個社區 2 萬元）汰換耗電燈具，總計減少 558 萬元的電費，今年更擴大補助到 500 個社區，有意者皆可向減碳診所申請。