Gyeonggi-do Promotes Solar Panel Installation in Fishing Port Zones... Proposes Legal Amendments to Government

Gyeonggi Provincial Government

Gyeonggi Province will install solar power facilities on public structures within fishing port areas, such as seafood direct sales centers. This is a measure to promote self-sufficient fishing port development that produces renewable energy.

Earlier, Gyeonggi Province conducted on-site inspections from November last year on parking lots, seafood sales centers, and multipurpose centers in 32 fishing ports across the province to identify public facilities where solar power installations are possible.

Gyeonggi Province is also consulting with central government agencies to revise related laws. Under current laws, self-generated solar power installation is allowed in new buildings within fishing port areas, but separate renewable energy power facilities are not considered part of fishing port facilities, making it impossible to install solar power facilities in highly utilizable areas such as parking lots.

On the 9th, Gyeonggi Province proposed an amendment to the central government to include renewable energy power facilities as fishing port facilities under the 'Fisheries and Fishing Ports Act.'

Additionally, until the law is amended, solar power facilities will be installed on three buildings promoted under the Fishing Village New Deal Project, including the seafood direct sales center at Gimpo Daemyeong Port, to realize eco-friendly energy production.

Gyeonggi Province plans to pursue sustainable fishing port development by encouraging cooperation and participation from local fishermen, creating exemplary cases that simultaneously promote environmental protection and regional economic revitalization.

Gong Jeong-sik, Director of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Life Sciences Bureau of Gyeonggi Province, stated, "Through this project, we expect to practice Gyeonggi Province's Rural RE100 and promote eco-friendly and sustainable fishing port development," adding, "We will do our best to prepare various carbon neutrality measures in the fisheries sector going forward."

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