SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Q Cells, a leading solar power solutions provider, announced on Thursday that it would build a 41-megawatt (MW) floating solar power plant at Hapcheon Dam in Hapcheon, 354 km southeast of Seoul. The new installation will be the world’s largest floating solar power plant built at a dam. [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A government-funded research institute announced on Wednesday that it had decided to fully disclose all of its wind and solar power-related public data. The data that the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) will open to the general public is a new and renewable energy resource atlas that provides [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government plans to introduce a forecasting system for renewable energy power generation as a way to better cope with the volatility in solar and wind power generation. Under the forecasting system, 20 megawatt-plus solar and wind power generators should report the predicted amount of renewable energy [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a string of landslides following heavy downpours across the country, some are blaming the solar power facilities installed on a number of mountain slopes across the country as one of primary factors behind the increase in landslides. In particular, some claim that the number of such facilities increased [...]
DANGJIN, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s move to switch to clean energy is being put into practice. The Dangjin-Eco Solar Power Plant, which was originally conceived as a coal-fired power plant before being changed to a renewable energy facility, largely in line with the Moon administration’s ambitious green energy-oriented policies, was officially completed [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean court has put the brakes on the controversial development of solar energy facilities in mountainous areas, over concerns about environmental damage. On Tuesday, the Cheongju District Court ruled against the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by two solar power companies against Eumseong County, North Chungcheong Province, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Energy Co., South Korea’s leading refiner under SK Innovation Co., said Wednesday its solar power facilities will begin commercial operation in the upcoming months as the company further expands its presence in environment-friendly energy market. SK Energy said its truck service station in Changwon, 400 kilometers southeast of [...]
YEONGDONG, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A series of court rulings have been made indicating that local governments are justified in disallowing solar power facilities that are recklessly installed amid the renewable energy craze. On June 29, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed by a solar power company against Yeongdong County, North Chungcheong Province, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The installed capacity of solar and wind power rose 52 percent on-year in the first half of this year, leading the growth of renewable energy. Solar energy and wind power accounted for 92.6 percent of the total supply of renewable energy in the first half of the year, the [...]
POHANG, Mar. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed a new device that can maximize the efficiency of solar power generation even on cloudy or rainy days. The researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology, the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials and Kyung Hee University developed a new technology [...]