Yeongam·Haenam Southwest Coast 'Future City Solarsido' Infrastructure Construction Accelerates

Yeongam·Haenam Tourism and Leisure-type Enterprise City Solaside Bird's-eye View / ⓒ Asia Economy

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Hyun] The ‘Yeongam-Haenam Tourism Leisure-type Enterprise City Solar City’ being developed in Haenam-gun, Jeollanam-do, is attracting attention as a future city standard that integrates and demonstrates various urban models such as garden city, smart city, and carbon-zero city based on abundant natural resources.

In particular, with the recent government announcement of the Korean New Deal policy emphasizing solutions to environmental and urban issues and the digitalization of daily life, Solar City is being recognized as the optimal alternative city aligned with the government's promotion policies.

Through its pioneering project, the enterprise city Solar City has been operating the largest-scale solar power plant in Korea (98MW, ESS 306MWh, 1,589,000㎡) since this year, and in the center of the solar power plant, it has created the ‘Garden of the Sun’ covering 148,760㎡, presenting a unique space where energy and nature meet.

Additionally, by early next year, an 18-hole golf course and a residential complex of approximately 110,000 pyeong around the golf course will be developed.

The residential complex introduced in Solar City is not intended solely for housing. It aims to create a future residential complex where everything can be resolved within the living space, including 500 housing units with the concept of leisure-type linked to the golf course and income-guaranteed housing linked to the solar power plant.

Moreover, through the 148,760㎡ garden, it plans to provide a complex cultural space to ensure settlement conditions for early residents. Solar City expects active support from the government, continuing the Korean New Deal policy, to successfully carry out these challenges.

A Solar City official said, “We hope Solar City will leap not only as a city where people want to live but also as a future city standard that can solve social demands such as expanding renewable energy, digitalization, and eco-friendliness all within one city, and beyond that, as a new concept city.”

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