Osan City Provides Incentives to Households Practicing Green Living

Osan City announced on the 2nd that it has provided incentives worth 7.09 million won to 22,115 households participating in the Carbon Points Program twice in the first and second half of 2011.

The city distributed incentives based on each household's achievements in reducing electricity and water consumption in 2011: 290,000 won to 33 individual households and 6.8 million won to 22,082 households in 30 apartment complexes.

Notably, the highest incentive of 75,000 won was awarded to the individual household with the highest carbon dioxide reduction performance, while Yangsan-dong Neulpurun Oscar Ville Apartments, as a collective facility, received 4 million won in benefits.

The energy reduction achievements this period, when converted to carbon dioxide emissions, amount to 545 tons of CO2, equivalent to planting 109,018 pine trees.

The Carbon Points Program is a system that sets energy baseline standards for individual or commercial facility owners and allocates points based on energy reduction rates, providing benefits such as cash incentives.

The Carbon Points Program has been implemented since July 2009 as a national greenhouse gas reduction practice program designed to expand greenhouse gas reduction policies, which had focused on industrial sectors, to non-industrial sectors including households and commercial facilities, and to promote social awareness of climate change and voluntary reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. As of the end of 2011, 22,447 households in Osan City had registered for the program.

To participate in the Carbon Points Program, applicants can register online through the operating program (http://www.cpoint.or.kr) or submit a written application by mail or fax. For more information, contact the Osan City Environmental Division at 8047-3213.