In 2024, the use of renewable electricity at Delta’s global operation sites reached 84%.
Delta announced in 2021 that it had joined the global renewable electricity initiative RE100 as a Gold Member, and pledged to achieve the goal of 100% renewable electricity by 2030 for Delta's global operation sites. Delta officially established the Delta Global RE100 Committee in 2021 with the Chairman, Vice Chairman, CEO, COO, and CSO as the main members who oversee 8 working groups in more than 30 countries. Each working group is led by the president of regional operations, who establishes a regional promotion organization to expand management to all sites. The organization is responsible for the promotion and attainment of renewable electricity targets for all sites in each region.
Delta's global operation sites continued to promote renewable electricity in 2024. The sites studied and reviewed local renewable electricity regulations and policies, market trends, prices and costs, and the integrity of traceability information, and gradually consulted with renewable electricity suppliers or electricity retailers. They also considered the long-term demand for renewable electricity and evaluated the benefits and feasibility of constructing or investing in renewable power plants. Each working group identified bottlenecks for the usage ratio of renewable electricity in the process. They learned about the reasons for these bottlenecks and actively sought opportunities for improvement.
In 2022, the attainment rate of the use of renewable electricity was included for the first time as a performance indicator for the Chairman, CEO, and Region Heads of each working group and it now accounts for 5% to 15% of their total remuneration and incentives. To ensure data quality, Delta included electricity data statistics from global operation sites for the ISAE 3000 assurance for the first time in 2023. All renewable electricity sources and types must comply with the RE100 technical criteria, and obtain complete traceability information to prove the source and quantity.
Delta strategically promotes renewable electricity by setting procurement priorities. In terms of the methods for attaining the targets, Delta uses energy conservation as the basis for reducing electricity consumption and has adopted a strategy of self-generated and consumed renewable electricity as the highest priority. The second category is direct purchase of renewable electricity (e.g., power purchase agreements (PPAs) and green electricity products) with bundled renewable electricity and certificates. The third category is unbundled energy attribute certificates (unbundled EACs). In full compliance with the RE100 technical manual, Delta developed other categories of innovation to encourage innovative measures for increasing the percentage of renewable electricity use. The RE100 mechanisms are also partially linked to the internal carbon pricing, with the target of increasing the percentage of bundled renewable electricity and certificates among sources of renewable electricity to over 50% by 2025. Delta aims to encourage all sites to prioritize the use of self-generated and consumed renewable electricity and bundled renewable electricity.
In 2024, the use of renewable electricity at Delta's global operation sites reached 84%, which exceeded the internal target of RE74. The global operation sites total electricity consumption was 820,818 MWh, including 693,445 MWh of renewable electricity. The sources of renewable electricity as a proportion of total electricity consumption included 45,288 MWh (5%) from self-generated and consumed solar power, 112,864 MWh (14%) from direct purchase of PPAs electricity, 330,681 MWh (40%) from green electricity products, and 204,612 MWh (25%) from unbundled EACs.
Delta is pursuing the goal of 100% renewable electricity by 2030 for global operation sites and is actively participating in international initiatives and relevant awards. To promote the development of renewable electricity, Delta has actively signed renewable electricity purchase agreements in Taiwan to inject vitality into the developing renewable electricity market. Delta actively negotiates and collaborates with the government and related stakeholders to accelerate the development of local regulations and renewable electricity trading systems at the key production site of Thailand, in order to promote access to renewable electricity at local plants.
Delta received the RE100 Market Trailblazer Award from the RE100 Leadership Awards in 2024, becoming the first company in Taiwan to receive this award. The RE100 Market Trailblazer Award recognizes companies that play a leading role in renewable electricity transformations in the market, especially those that have demonstrated innovation and influence in markets that are not yet mature.
Thanks to Delta’s work with stakeholders to overcome market restrictions and play an active leading role in market changes, the Company has received recognition and approval from the international independent judges for outstanding performance among the RE100 member companies, which demonstrates Delta's contributions to driving the development of the renewable electricity market.