SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese firms turned out to have a hefty stake in domestic solar power companies in the Saemangeum reclaimed land on the southwest coast, a renewable energy center for South Korea, a lawmaker said Tuesday. According to the data obtained by Rep. Park Soo-young of the People Power Party from [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Solutions Corp., a key energy unit of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, said Tuesday it will work with a German renewable energy firm to push for a 500 megawatt (MW) solar power development project in the European country in a bid to tap deeper into the region with [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group on Thursday unveiled the Solar Beehive, which is run by electricity generated from solar power. The Beehive set up for a test drive at the Korea National University of Agriculture and Fisheries will become home to some 40,000 bees who will play a crucial [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s largest solar power plant built in partnership with local communities began operations in the southwestern county of Shinan on Wednesday. The solar farm covers an area of 1.42 million square meters, encompassing four towns in the county. The complex holds a capacity of 150 megawatts, and is [...]
GONGJU, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first solar village, where local residents jointly produce electricity and share the profits, is now online. The South Chungcheong Provincial Government built and started operating a solar power plant in Eomuli village in Gongju, 160 kilometers south of Seoul, through what is being called a ‘profit-sharing solar [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s cumulative solar power capacity has more than quadrupled since President Moon Jae-in took office in 2017, a lawmaker said Wednesday. According to the data that Rep. Lee Joo-hwan of the main opposition People Power Party received from the National Assembly Budget Office and the Ministry of Trade, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run utility Korea East-West Power Co. announced that together with a local company, it had succeeded in developing road surface block-type solar power generation technology for the first time in South Korea. This technology enables the production of electricity by installing solar power generation blocks in various road [...]
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 [...]