“Practicing Carbon Neutrality” … Changwon Special City, KEPCO, and Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas Reduction Agreement

Citizen-Led Energy Saving Activation
Joint Promotion of "Akkim-e Competition Season 2"

On the 11th, Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam signed a business agreement with the Korea Electric Power Corporation Gyeongnam Headquarters and the Korea Energy Agency Gyeongnam Regional Headquarters to jointly promote citizen-led energy-saving practices in daily life and the ‘Akkim-e Competition Season 2’.

Changwon Special City, KEPCO, and Korea Energy Agency Sign Agreement to Practice Greenhouse Gas Reduction.

The main contents of the agreement include ▲ joint promotion of the Akkim-e Competition Season 2 project ▲ exchange of information and mutual cooperation to respond to the climate crisis ▲ cooperation to spread citizen movement practices through carbon neutrality implementation and promotion. Each organization agreed to mutually cooperate to activate citizen-led carbon neutrality practices in response to the climate crisis in daily life.

The ‘Akkim-e Competition Season 2’ promoted under this agreement is a citizen-led greenhouse gas reduction practice project. While last year it was targeted at villages, this year it has been expanded and reorganized into three sectors: villages, commercial and traditional markets, and social welfare facilities.

In Season 2, the newly cooperating institution, the Korea Energy Agency Gyeongnam Headquarters, will provide energy-saving expert consulting to participants who wish to increase the effectiveness of energy-saving practices.

Prizes of 1,000,000 KRW, 600,000 KRW, and 400,000 KRW will be awarded to the 1st to 3rd place winners in each sector, and the 1st place winners in each sector will receive additional prizes of either an air conditioner (supported by KEPCO) or a 3 kW solar power generation facility (supported by the Energy Agency). Detailed information will be posted on the city’s website under notices/announcements in May.

Jo Myeong-rae, the 2nd Deputy Mayor, said, “After holding the Akkim-e Competition last year, the atmosphere where village residents participated together in energy saving with a sense of community spread, and it actually led to energy-saving effects. As the scope of participation has expanded this year, I hope the climate action participation atmosphere will continue to spread to commercial areas, traditional markets, and welfare facilities. Going forward, we will strive to spread the atmosphere so that companies, schools, and everyone can participate.”

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