Park Woo-ryang, Shinan County Governor, Receives Great Response for Presentation on World's Largest Shinan Offshore Wind Power Project

Shinan-gun, Rising as the Center of Carbon Neutrality

Park Woo-ryang, the governor of Shinan County, presented a case study on the world's largest Shinan offshore wind power project. (Photo by Shinan County)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Seo Young-seo] On the 6th, Jeonnam Sinan-gun announced that County Governor Park Woo-ryang attended the launch ceremony of the 2050 Carbon Neutrality Special Committee Local Government Promotion Group online and presented exemplary cases in the field of wind power generation, receiving great responses from the attendees.

In his case presentation, Governor Park Woo-ryang said, “The key to 2050 carbon neutrality is to shift from a centralized energy system to a decentralized renewable energy system,” adding, “The success or failure of carbon neutrality depends on the spread of national consensus and resident participation, and at the center of this is the offshore wind power promoted by Sinan-gun.”

Sinan-gun enacted the nation’s first “Renewable Energy Development Profit Sharing Ordinance” (October 5, 2018), breaking away from the existing profit monopoly by large corporations in renewable energy development and enabling residents to share the profits from renewable energy development.

In particular, under the nation’s best offshore wind power site conditions, the completion of the 8.2GW offshore wind power project underway is expected to generate an annual income of about 300 billion KRW for residents, which corresponds to an income of 6 million KRW per person per year for Sinan-gun residents.

The 8.2GW offshore wind power corresponds to 16% of the government’s 48.7GW target by 2030 and is expected to serve as a cornerstone for the second economic development leap in the southwestern region of Jeonnam as a core project of Jeonnam’s Blue Economy.

Governor Park Woo-ryang stated, “We plan to gradually promote solar power and offshore wind power,” and added, “We will thoroughly promote the participation of power producers and residents together, and by sharing the development profits using public resources such as solar power and wind, we will firmly establish energy democracy.”

The 8.2GW offshore wind power project is a business that will create 117,000 direct and indirect jobs, including 48 trillion KRW in private investment, 40 companies attracted, and 4,000 permanent jobs.

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