Jeong Gi-seon: "Electrification Capability Essential for Group's New 50-Year Vision"
Global R&D Center Electrification Center Opening
Carbon-Free Ships and Excavators... Electrification of Naval Vessels Too
HD Hyundai is set to secure a super-gap electrification technology.
On the 13th, HD Hyundai announced that it held an opening ceremony for the Electrification Center at the HD Hyundai Global R&D Center (GRC) in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do. Key group figures attended, including Vice Chairman Jeong Gi-seon of HD Hyundai, President Jo Young-cheol and President Lee Dong-wook of HD Hyundai Site Solutions, and President Jo Seok of HD Hyundai Electric.
HD Hyundai integrated the electrification research organizations that were operated separately by its affiliates into the Electrification Center, newly established as a direct center within HD Hyundai Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering’s Future Technology Research Institute. The Electric Control Research Lab of HD Hyundai Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, the Power Electronics Development Team of HD Hyundai Site Solutions, and the Power Systems Research Lab of HD Hyundai Electric were combined.
Additionally, Professor Seol Seung-gi of Seoul National University, a world-renowned scholar in the electrification field, was appointed as a technical advisory committee member for the Electrification Center. Professor Seol will provide technical advice and lectures to employees in four sectors: shipbuilding & offshore, construction machinery, electric, and robotics, contributing to strengthening the group’s electrification capabilities.
Through the Electrification Center, HD Hyundai aims to secure differentiated technological superiority by developing zero-carbon electric propulsion ships and excavators. Research will focus on the development of advanced electrification technologies and core components to accelerate electrification in key businesses.
Furthermore, HD Hyundai is promoting the localization of electric propulsion systems for both manned and unmanned vessels to realize innovative vessel electrification. HD Hyundai Heavy Industries is conducting the basic design of the Korean next-generation destroyer (KDDX), applying a 25MW-class large-capacity, high-output integrated electric propulsion system, unifying the ship’s power generation and propulsion systems for the first time in Korea.
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Vice Chairman Jeong Gi-seon stated, "Securing electrification capabilities is essential to realize the vision that will lead the group’s next 50 years. I expect that through electrification technology development and securing research personnel, HD Hyundai’s Electrification Center will become a world-class electrification center."
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