Pohang City Distributes 'LPG Small Storage Tanks'... Residents Bear Only 10% of Project Costs

This Year’s Project Targets: Resident Briefings Held in 10 Villages of Heunghae-eup, Singwang-myeon, and Nam-gu

The scene of the Pohang City 'LPG Small Storage Tank Supply Project' residents briefing session held on the 15th.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Pohang City announced on the 17th that it held resident briefings on the LPG Small Storage Tank Supply Project in villages including Heunghae-eup from the 8th to the 16th.

According to Pohang City on the 17th, the "LPG Small Storage Tank Supply Project" is an energy welfare project that supports installing small storage tanks, piping networks, boilers, etc., in rural fishing villages where city gas is not supplied, allowing residents to use LPG more cheaply, conveniently, and safely than the existing LPG prices.

In this regard, Pohang City signed a business agreement in March with the Korea LPG Pipeline Network Project Group and the Korea Gas Safety Corporation to promote the "Energy Welfare Realization LPG Pipeline Network Construction Project."

This agreement is part of a national and provincial subsidy project investing a total of 16.8 billion KRW over three years in 28 villages in Heunghae and nearby areas, which are city gas non-supply areas and earthquake-damaged rural fishing villages.

Pohang City plans to use this as a stepping stone to increase the energy supply rate to 99% within the next 10 years, reaching the level of city gas. The briefings were held for 10 villages targeted for this year's project: Daryeon 3-ri, Heungan 1-ri, Yangbaek 1~2-ri, Yonggok 1~2-ri, Odo 1-ri, Geumjang 1-ri in Heunghae-eup, Buk-gu area; Ugak 1-ri in Singwang-myeon; and Galpyeong-ri in Ocheon-eup, Nam-gu area.

This project requires residents to bear 10% of the total project cost of 6.797 billion KRW for all 10 villages (about 1 million KRW per household), and in return, gas boilers and in-house piping networks are installed, receiving great response from residents.

Mayor Kangdeok Lee of Pohang said, "We will strive to eliminate energy welfare imbalances between regions so that residents in areas previously excluded from energy benefits can reduce fuel costs and use energy safely and conveniently."

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