Driven by the "dual carbon" goal, the influence of ESG concepts continues to expand. ESG is also regarded by more and more enterprises as an important starting point for achieving sustainable development goals and an important reference for measuring sustainable development actions, which is not only the "soft power" to shape the corporate brand image, but also the "hard principle" to promote enterprises to practice long-termism.
Recently, Tunghsu Blue Sky has won many important awards such as "The Most Socially Responsible Listed Company" by National Business Daily, "Star of Core Competitiveness ESG Enterprises" by The Economic Observer, "2023 ESG Outstanding Enterprise" by China Times, and "Outstanding Social Responsibility Award" by the financial industry by virtue of its innovative exploration and practice in the field of ESG.
ESG is the embodiment of the values and future development strategy of listed companies, and the ESG report will become the fourth statement of listed companies. For enterprises, good ESG performance can become the endogenous driving force for high-quality development of enterprises. Huang Yuncheng, former deputy director of the Policy Research Office of the China Securities Regulatory Commission and chairman of the Academic Advisory Committee of the China Association of Listed Companies, said in an interview.
As a private enterprise deeply engaged in the field of environmental protection and new energy, Tunghsu Blue Sky not only has an innate green environmental protection gene, but also takes "gratitude" as the core concept, advocates the concept of corporate citizenship, attaches great importance to corporate social responsibility while creating commercial and environmental value, incorporates social responsibility into the sustainable development strategy of the enterprise, and expresses gratitude and gives back to the society with practical actions.
New energy power generation, smart energy management, and photovoltaic modules are the key directions for the development of carbon neutral industries. Tunghsu Blue Sky has a complete photovoltaic power generation system, built a remote centralized control intelligent operation and maintenance platform for photovoltaic power stations with independent intellectual property rights, and has full-cycle smart energy management capabilities, realizing the full-cycle smart energy management of photovoltaic power station big data collection, intelligent fault diagnosis, and operation and maintenance management. In the field of photovoltaic modules, it now has a high-efficiency photovoltaic module production base integrating R&D, manufacturing and sales, with a production capacity of 2GW, and the power generation stability, environmental adaptability and photoelectric conversion efficiency are at the leading level in the industry.
According to Tunghsu Bluesky's 2022 ESG report, by the end of 2022, Tunghsu Bluesky had 57 self-sustaining photovoltaic power plants, covering 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country, with an installed capacity of about 1GW of grid-connected photovoltaic power plants. In 2022, Tunghsu Blue Sky generated 11500 million kW·h, which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 11370,000 tons, sulfur dioxide 3420,000 tons, nitrogen oxides 1710,000 tons.
It is understood that Tunghsu Blue Sky has built a number of representative photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects with its own business characteristics, effectively helping the local poor population to increase their income sustainably and contributing to the local poverty alleviation work.
In Jinzhai, Anhui Province, which is known as the "cradle of the Red Army and the hometown of generals", Dongxu Blue Sky combines local characteristics to innovate and develop the agriculture and photovoltaic complementary industry of "photovoltaic + planting and breeding", and realizes power generation on photovoltaic panels and tea planting under panels. It also set up a wholly-owned subsidiary, Dongxu Dabie Mountain, to help Jinzhai farmers find employment through the circulation of planting mountain farms, promote the development of the local tea oil industry, and solve the problem of reemployment of more than 1,000 farmers.
In addition, Tunghsu Blue Sky also has a number of successful environmental governance cases in the fields of rural domestic sewage treatment, soil remediation, and solid waste treatment, helping to realize the construction of a beautiful countryside with "clean water, clean ground, and beautiful environment".
Wang Zhengjun, secretary of the board of directors of Tunghsu Blue Sky, said that as one of the main forces to help "carbon neutrality", Tunghsu Blue Sky will always take "committed to the coordinated development of green energy and green environment, and build a better home for mankind" as its mission, and actively practice green development, scientific and technological innovation, safety management, and social responsibility.