“By 2016, Hyundai Motor will launch the Avante electric car and a hybrid model. Kia Motors will also unveil a K3 electric car by almost the same time.” “To become one of top-3 global brands, Korean automotive industry needs to step up its efforts to boost the domestic demand for the environmentally-friendly vehicles – as well as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Global warming and climate change have not just resulted in the world-wide rush to develop alternative energy or eco-friendly vehicles. The seemingly inescapable phenomenon has impacted on a huge chunk of arable lands across the globe. Climate change can affect both crop yield and the land area suitable for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea appears to ease regulations on the green belt zone as it gives a green light to building more energy infrastructures to be allowed within the green zones. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) announced on October 14 that it will be permitted that oil pipelines [...]
GWANGJU, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gwangju Metropolitan City declared it will aggressively foster an eco-friendly hydrogen fuel cell automobile industry as its core and strategic industry, according to the sixth largest city in South Korea. With an aim to take the lead in the eco-friendly hydrogen auto industry, Gwangju already laid out plans to foster the hydrogen [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that an event to open the Seoul Station overpass will be held for the public to take a stroll and enjoy a breathtaking panorama of Seoul, with traffic entirely blocked from the noon to 4 P.M. on October 12. The overpass has never been allowed to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group decided to withdraw its solar energy business in a five promising business list and add up a mobile solution field to the list. The leading conglomerate announced on October 5 that it was underway to restructure its five prospective business plan – medical devices, light emitting diode solar [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – “Environmental friendliness is changing the landscape of the whole automobile industry.” This is what Volkswagen AG chairman Martin Winterkorn said after visiting the Paris Motor Show 2014 on October 2. Being green has indeed become the most important yardstick by which newly developed cars are judged today. In trade shows, participating car [...]
![[Quote] Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt Highly Appreciates Hanwha Q CELLS](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Q-Cells_Thalheim_Solar_Valley-800x450.jpg "[Quote] Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt Highly Appreciates Hanwha Q CELLS")
“Hanwha Q CELLS is one of the outstanding and successful business models in making investments in Germany. Only in two years after the Hanwha Group took over the operational business of the now-defunct Q-Cells SE, Hanwha Q CELLS started operating in the black” “Hanwha Q CELLS, which jumped up to be a leading solar PV company in [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Visiting Canada from September 21 to 24, president and CEO Cho Hwan-ik of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with PowerStream to collaboratively advance into the microgrid market in North America. A microgrid is a small-scale power grid that can operate independently or in [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — LG CNS announced that it won a tender for the supply of 330,000 units of Advanced Metering Infrastructure and the installation of its system at the price of 48 billion won, or about US$46 million, from Tauron Dystrybucja S.A., the largest electric utility in Poland. The infrastructure is a smart meter [...]