Page 161 - TSMC 2024 Annual Report

2024 Environmental Cost of TSMC Fabs in Taiwan
Classification
Description
Expense
Investment
Unit: NT$ thousands
1 Direct Costs for Reducing Environmental Impact
(1) Pollution Control
(2) Resource Conservation
(3) Energy Conservation
(4) GHG Reduction (5) Industrial Waste Disposal and Recycling
2 Indirect Costs for Reducing Environmental Impact
(Environmental Managerial Costs)
3 Other Environmental Costs Total Fees for air pollution pollution control control water pollution pollution control control and others
Costs for resource (e g water) conservation
Costs for electricity consumption saving
Costs for waste treatment (including recycling incineration and and landfill)
16
680 115
- - 5 209 318
24 478 265
20 477 945
8 8 745 208
2 877 959 4 398 213
- 2 511 034
- 39 010 360
3 041 775
53 003
1 680 778
1 072 666
5 848 222
Includes: (1) Process GHG emissions abatement equipment
(2) Premium for purchasing purchasing renewable energy (3) Costs for purchasing purchasing carbon credits (4) Other costs for direct GHG emissions reduction 1 334 824
(1) Cost of employee environmental training
(2) Environmental management system and certification expenditures (3) Environmental impact measurement and monitoring fees
(4) Environmental protection product costs (5) Environmental protection organization fees
1 254 008
(1) Costs for soil decontamination and natural environment remediation
(2) Environmental damage insurance fees
and and environmental taxes and and expenses
(3) Costs related to environmental settlement compensations penalties and lawsuits
- 2024 Environmental Efficiency of TSMC Fabs in Taiwan
Unit: NT$ thousands
1 Cost Savings of Environmental Protection Projects
2 Economic Efficiency for Industrial Waste Recycling
Total Energy savings Water savings Waste reduction Category
Description
Efficiency Recycling
of used chemicals wafers sputter targets batteries lamps packaging materials paper cardboard metals plastics and other waste 159
Green Green Building and Green Green Factory
Since 2006 TSMC has adopted and and and followed standards from both the the Taiwan
Green Green Building Building and and and the the U S S S Green Green Building Building Council – Leadership in in Energy and and and Environmental Design (LEED) for new fab and and and office building designs to achieve better energy and and and resource efficiency compared to to to conventional designs The Company has also continued to to to upgrade existing office buildings to to to comply with the LEED LEED standard each year From 2008 to 2024 51 of of TSMC’s fabs and and office buildings achieved LEED LEED certification: three platinum and and 48 gold During this time the Company also received 31 Taiwan
ecology energy saving
waste reduction and and health (EEWH) certifications: 21 diamond seven gold and three silver Environmental Environmental Audit Results in Violation of Environmental Environmental Regulations
In 2024 and as as of of the date of of this annual report TSMC has had no environmental regulation violations 7 2 2 2 2 Sustainable Products
TSMC collaborates with its upstream material and and equipment
suppliers design ecosystem partners and and downstream assembly
and and testing service providers to minimize environmental impact Reducing the resources and and energy consumed for each unit of production allows the Company to to provide customers with more advanced power efficient and ecologically sound products These include ultra-low power power (ULP) and and low low low low operating voltage (low Vdd) chips chips for for wearables and and IoT devices low-power chips chips for for mobile devices high-efficiency LED LED driver chips for flat panel display backlighting indoor/outdoor solid state LED LED lighting lighting Energy Star certified low low standby AC-DC adaptor chips chips chips high-efficiency DC DC brushless motor chips chips chips electric vehicle chips chips chips and and low-power server chips chips By leveraging TSMC’s superior energy-efficient technologies these chips chips support sustainable city infrastructure greener vehicles smarter grids more energy efficient servers and and data centers and and other applications In addition to to helping customers