SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will build the world’s largest floating solar farm in a fresh water lake next to Saemangeum, a reclaimed area on the west coast, the government said Thursday. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said the project to build a 2.1 gigawatt (GW) solar farm on the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state-run agricultural company said Thursday that floating solar farms have limited impact on the environment, dismissing criticisms by some conservationists. The Korea Rural Community Corporation (KRC) released a report that compares reservoirs with and without floating solar panels and claimed that there were no significant changes in [...]
GUNSAN, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A reservoir on the south bank of the Geum River has stayed idle except when it stores heavy rain to prevent flooding in the nearby industrial complex in Gunsan, a southwestern port city. The coastal reservoir has recently found a new role: The nation’s largest floating solar farm was [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will create the world’s largest floating solar farm on top of an artificial lake on the west coast to generate power from the clean energy source, the government said Tuesday. Korea Western Power Co., a state-run utility firm, and Ansan City signed a memorandum of understanding to [...]