SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The use of biomass at thermal power plants, including logged wood and branches, has jumped in size during the Moon administration. Rep. Yoon Young-seok from the main opposition People Power Party submitted a report based on data from the Korea Energy Agency and the Korea Power Exchange which indicated [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s electricity generation fell for the second consecutive year in 2020 as demand dipped amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Tuesday. The amount of electricity generated by the nation’s power plants came to 552,165 gigawatt hours (GWh) last year, down 1.9 percent from the previous year, according to [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Last year, air pollutants emitted by large businesses across the country with tele-monitoring system (TMS) were reported to have decreased by 16 percent from the previous year. A survey of 631 TMS-equipped businesses nationwide on emissions of seven types of air pollutants last year showed a total of 277,696 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government vowed Monday to conduct emergency inspections at a coal power plant following the death of a young worker and beef up safety measures in workplaces. The measures comes after a 24-year-old sub-contract worker at the Korea Western Power Co. (KOWEPO) was killed in a conveyor [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Engineering & Construction (SK E&C) has teamed up with a Turkish firm for a multi-billion-dollar project to build and operate new power plants in Iraq, the South Korean firm said Saturday. Officials from the South Korean builder said the company has successfully purchased a 30 percent stake in UNIT International S.A., Turkey’s energy giant, one day after the two [...]