SEOUL, NOV. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced plans to introduce small solar panels at 1 million households by 2022. Currently, around 30,000 households in Seoul are equipped with mini solar panels, but Seoul’s ambitious plan will see the number grow by a factor of more than 30, allowing one in every [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean officials have defended the country’s makers of solar cells against a possible safeguard action by the United States during a public hearing, the foreign ministry said Thursday. A team of government officials from the foreign and trade ministries in charge of import regulations in overseas markets participated [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – As concerns over fine dust problems are seeing the newly formed Moon administration act swiftly to improve air quality, including closing down aging coal-fired power plants, eco-friendly solar energy businesses are attracting attention as a new private business model. According to renewable energy industry experts, private citizens with no [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will build a large-scale laboratory for solar photovoltaic technology, allowing companies to test the safety and reliability of solar-powered products, officials said Wednesday. The 1.5-megawatt lab will be built in the administrative capital of Sejong City, about 120 kilometers south of Seoul. If completed, South Korea will [...]
YEONGWOL, South Korea, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Mongolian solar energy company Moshea Eco Energy and Idea Bridge, a Korean asset management firm, finalized a contract earlier this week to build a 50MW solar power plant on 100ha of land near a new airport, some 31km away from the capital Ulaanbaatar. The new plant will [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday it will invest 527.2 billion won (US$435 million) to expand its solar module production facilities as part of an effort to secure a new growth engine. Under the plan, LG Electronics will add six more production lines to its solar module plant based in [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Two major players in Hanwha Group’s photovoltaic business, Hanwha SolarOne and Hanwha Q-Cells, have decided to integrate with each other and to begin operating under the name of Hanwha Q-Cells. On February 4, Hanwha SolarOne held an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in Shanghai, China, and decided to acquire all [...]
![[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. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean research team has succeeded in developing a new nanotechnology material to split water using solar energy. The research project, sponsored by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, was led by Prof. Park Jong-hyeok of SungKyunKwan University and Kim Jong-kyu of Postech as well as Xinjian Shi, and [...]
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Business leaders surveyed by AT Kearney, the global management consultancy, have more confidence in South Africa as an investment destination than they do in many western European countries and emerging powerhouses like Chile and Malaysia. One reason is Pretoria’s much lauded renewable energy program which in the view of London-based risk [...]