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 [...]
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 [...]