South Korea’s offshore wind business suffers from a sluggish and unclear allowing process which at present bars about 98% of the initiatives in improvement, reveals a brand new research by Options for Our Local weather (SFOC).
The Seoul-based group advocating for stronger local weather insurance policies and reforms in energy laws has discovered that 70 offshore wind initiatives have obtained electrical enterprise licences in South Korea as of September 2022. This represents 20.8 GW of mixed potential capability versus a 2030 goal of 12 GW.
Nevertheless, up to now, solely 4 initiatives, or 2% of all, totalling 548 MW have managed to finish the greater than 10-year-long allowing course of within the nation, and solely two of them are actually operational.
“What South Korea lacks are not technical capabilities or interest from developers. Rather, it is the absence of a clear permitting procedure,” stated Eunbyeol Jo, head of the renewable allowing workforce at SFOC.
Since 2021, the Korean Nationwide Meeting has been preserving on maintain, in subcommittee evaluate, a invoice that requires government-led maritime zoning and allow centralisation. Jo careworn that it ought to be the federal government’s duty to designate offshore wind zones and that having a devoted public company to take action can considerably velocity up development within the sector.
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