SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of electricity generated from renewable energy in South Korea touched an all-time high in 2021 on government efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, data showed Monday. Electricity produced from renewable energy sources came to 43,085 gigawatt hours last year, accounting for 7.5 percent of the country’s total [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday that South Korea will expand its use of renewable energy as the nation vows to go carbon neutral by 2050. Moon made the remarks as he visited a floating solar power-generating facility inside Hapcheon Dam in Hapcheon, about 350 kilometers south of Seoul. “Carbon [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting from the end of this month, companies will be allowed to directly purchase electricity produced from renewable energy. This will broaden the way for companies to participate in the RE100 campaign that calls for companies to meet their entire electricity demand with renewable energy such as wind power [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The mandatory renewable portfolio standards (RPS) ratio for South Korea’s large-sized power suppliers will be revised upward from next year. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said Wednesday that it had issued an advance legislation notice for the upward revision of the RPS ratio for large-sized power suppliers. [...]
JEJU, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The municipality of the southern resort island of Jeju will introduce a compensation system to promote the use of overproduced and wasted renewable energy for electric vehicle (EV) charging. The the Jeju provincial government on Thursday signed a business agreement with the state-run energy firm Korea Electric Power Corp. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday that South Korea will scale up its solar and wind energy production facilities by more than twofold within four years as part of the government’s new carbon neutrality policy. “By 2025, we will expand the scale of solar and wind-related facilities by more than [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to two thirds of renewable energy companies in South Korea are skeptical about the government’s plan to raise the ratio of renewable energy supply to 20 percent of total power output by the year 2030. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO), South Korea’s state-run utility, said Wednesday that it will launch a new renewable energy transaction service through its energy marketplace EN:TER. The new renewable energy transaction service consists of the ‘My Power Plant Service’ and the ‘Green Premium Bidding Service.’ The My Power Plant [...]
CHANGWON, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The southeastern city of Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province is rising as a platform to develop South Korea’s high-altitude wind power technology, the newest addition to a series of renewable energy sources. The Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp., and the municipality of Changwon recently held [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Monday it has revised the renewable portfolio standards (RPS) system to have power companies utilize more sustainable resources, in line with the country’s green energy drive. Under the new rules, power companies are requested to produce up to 25 percent of all their power output from [...]