SK Ecoplant Showcases 'Circular Economy Model' at US CES

Park Kyung-il, President of SK Ecoplant (second from the left), is visiting the CES 2022 site and examining a scaled-down model of the Net Zero City.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Min-young] SK ecoplant announced that from the 5th (local time), it showcased Net Zero City at 'CES 2022,' the world's largest electronics and IT exhibition held in Las Vegas, USA. Net Zero City is a circular economy model that simultaneously addresses environmental and energy issues by converting waste and air pollutants into energy or resources based on advanced technology.

This is SK ecoplant's first participation in CES. This year, CES featured over 2,100 companies from 160 countries worldwide. At the exhibition, SK ecoplant, together with member companies such as SK, SK Innovation, SK Telecom, SK E&S, and SK Hynix, opened a joint pavilion under the theme of collaboration and introduced various technologies and efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

The Net Zero City, a scaled-down model measuring 100cm in width and 60cm in height, represents a future virtuous cycle environmental city. It showcased SK ecoplant's ongoing and planned environmental and renewable energy solutions, including green hydrogen production based on renewable energy, fuel cell power generation, waste-to-energy conversion, and green renovation.

Specifically, the model demonstrates producing eco-friendly renewable energy such as solar and wind power, converting surplus electricity into green hydrogen, and supplying eco-friendly energy using hydrogen fuel cells at required times and demand sites. Additionally, it presented an environmental business model that completes the zero city by converting air pollutants such as syngas generated during the incineration of various wastes and biogas from sewage treatment plants into energy through fuel cell power generation.

Park Kyung-il, CEO of SK ecoplant, said, "The blueprint presented by SK ecoplant at CES is not a distant future but a technology already realized and becoming visible," adding, "We will become Asia's leading environmental company designing sustainable cities without earth pollution by completing the renewable energy value chain, including hydrogen and wind power, in the future."

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