Boseong Industry 'Solar City' Participates in 2023 World Smart City Expo

Boseong Industrial announced on the 1st that it will participate in the 2023 World Smart City Expo (WSCE) together with Haenam-gun, Jeollanam-do, to introduce the future city 'Solarisdo.'

Solacido Smart City Aerial View / Image provided by Hanyang

The expo will be held from the 6th to the 8th at KINTEX in Ilsan. Experts from over 200 cities and the smart city sector, including governments and companies from 60 countries around the world, will gather to envision sustainable future cities.

At the expo, Boseong Industrial plans to showcase major projects of Solarisdo smart city, including a renewable energy-based industrial belt, smart mobility services, and residential complexes with a livable environment, through videos, panels, and models.

Solarisdo is a public-private partnership urban development project underway on approximately 20.9 million square meters (about 6.32 million pyeong) in the Haenam-gun area. The project is led by Seonamhaean Corporate City Development, a special purpose company (SPC) involving Boseong Group?which includes Boseong Industrial and Hanyang?and Jeollanam-do.

Recently, the public and private sectors signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a data center cluster with a scale of 500,000 pyeong within the Solarisdo RE100 industrial site, which will be the largest in Korea with a capacity of 1GW (up to 25 units of 40MW each). This is expected to help solve the overconcentration problem of data centers in the metropolitan area and alleviate the burden on the power grid.

Additionally, in March this year, the national education facility 'Carbon Neutral Edu Center,' planned to be built in Solarisdo, passed the investment review by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety. The 'Carbon Neutral (Green Convergence) Cluster Development Project,' which fosters technologies for recycling solar panels after use and related industries, has also been included in next year’s government budget, accelerating its progress.

A representative from Boseong Industrial said, "Solarisdo is a future city based on renewable energy with a smart living environment, ultimately aiming to be a human-centered city. We will develop it as a future city that implements smart solutions tailored to individual needs and lifestyles while aligning with national policies such as resolving regional extinction."

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