Zurich, Switzerland, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Hitachi Energy today launched its OceaniQ™ portfolio(*1) for the offshore energy environment, which will be showcased this week at the annual WindEurope event in Bilbao, Spain. The global technology and market leader in power grids, which has a proven track record(*2) in pioneering solutions for offshore, has created [...]
BUCHEON, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Bucheon, a Gyeonggi Province city on the southwestern outskirts of Seoul, is moving forward with a project to produce electricity from the wind generated by the odor control system at a wastewater treatment facility. The project was designed to produce electricity using the wind generated by a deodorizer, which [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The capacity utilization rate remains low for South Korea’s largest offshore wind farm, located in the coastal waters of Buan in North Jeolla Province, primarily due to low wind velocity. According to the data that Rep. Han Moo-kyung of the People Power Party received from the Korea Electric Power [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Southern Power Co. (KOSPO), a South Korean public power utility, has completed a wind power plant project in Jordan six years after it was launched. The company announced on Tuesday (local time) that it held a completion ceremony for the wind power plant worth 120 billion won (US$125 [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s leading steelmaker POSCO has joined hands with Orsted A/S, the world’s largest offshore wind power producer in the areas of offshore wind power and green hydrogen production. The two parties recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote a comprehensive partnership with a focus on domestic [...]
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 [...]
JEJU, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The provincial government of Jeju Island, which is famous for strong winds, plans to launch a project that uses wind power to produce electricity and then use the electricity to split water to produce hydrogen energy. This is an example of a so-called green hydrogen (P2G: Power to Gas) [...]
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, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co., South Korea’s largest power plant builder, set an ambitious plan Sunday to boost its annual sales from its offshore wind farm business to over 1 trillion won (US$830 billion) by 2025, more than what it has generated over the past decade. Doosan Heavy [...]