Energy Utilization

RichWave is in the IC research and development industry. We do not have any high energy-consuming heating equipment or production process and consume mainly externally purchased electricity. To realize energy management, we regularly calculate our electricity consumption to monitor RichWave's energy utilization and continue to formulate improvement strategies based on these statistics to achieve the goal of reducing electricity consumption on a programmatic basis.

RichWave's purchased electricity use in 2022 was 1,040,347.9 kWh, equals to 3,745.21 GJ, down 0.7% compared to the previous year, which was mainly due to the company's energy conservation policy practices and space utilization arrangement, as well as the adjustment of the number of work-from-home workers due to the quarantine. In 2022, our EUI was 198.7 kWh/m2, down 5.8% compared to the previous year, indicating that RichWave's past energy-saving measures were well carried through, and we will continue to carry out more energy-use programs in the future to enhance the use efficiency and practice green sustainability.

Green Operations

RichWave sees environmental sustainability as our responsibility, hence we uphold the philosophy of green environmental protection during our business process, where the Management Department regularly reviews the rationality of energy use, consolidates energy management policies, as well as plan and implement various energy-saving and carbon reduction projects in conjunction with the IT Department. These include the annual energy-saving improvement solutions, office energy conservation campaign, air conditioner improvement measures and the introduction of energy- saving equipment and technology, etc. Moreover, RichWave emphasizes the high performance and low power consumption qualities of our products in the hope of elevating our energy use efficiency. The company has already obtained ISO 9001:2015 certification and maintained IECQ QC080000 compliance along with the SONY GP (Green Partner) and Samsung Eco- Partner certifications. On June 27, 2022, the company simultaneously implemented ISO 14001 environmental management system and ISO 14064-1 GHG inventory, and obtained two international certifications on December 7, 2022 and November 28, 2022 respectively for the sake of minimizing resource depletion during our business process by establishing a sound environmental management mechanism. The ultimate goal is to improve RichWave's corporate sustainability and meet the expectations of our customers and the general public toward green operations.

RichWave's Energy-Saving and Carbon Reduction Plan

1. After obtaining the ISO14064-1 in 2022, we can effectively plan and implement our annual energy-saving and carbon reduction plans.
2. Office energy conservation campaign:
   Encourage employees to reduce energy use by changing air conditioning temperature and the time to turn on it, turning off lights when leaving, shutting down after finishing work shutdown, and shutting down the conference system at the end of a meeting.
3. Continuously introduce energy-saving equipment and technology:
   Continuously evaluate the feasibility of introducing new energy-saving technologies, such as the use of LED energy-saving light tubes in replacement of traditional lightings, plan for the possibility of introducing air-conditioning energy-saving devices and participate in the energy-saving program of the Bureau of Energy.
4. Continuously develop and design low-carbon products:
   Use low energy consumption, high efficiency, energy saving and carbon reduction as one of the important design indicators.
5. Reduce paper consumption and waste minimization:
   Enhance the digitalization of daily operations, such as replacing paper documents with electronic documents, encouraging employees to bring their own thermos when purchasing beverages, and bringing their own chopsticks and spoons when eating out, in order to reduce the amount of paper used and the amount of waste generated in their daily lives.

RichWave's Energy-Saving and Carbon Reduction Goals and Performance for 2022