164 Renewable Energy Facilities to Be Installed by Year-End Near Hwaseong Songsan Industrial Complex

1,775 MWh Scale... 2.77 Billion KRW in National, City, and Private Funds Invested
City: "We Will Establish an Energy Self-Reliance Foundation and Achieve Carbon Neutrality"

Renewable energy generation facilities such as solar power, solar thermal, and geothermal energy will be installed at 164 locations in the Songsan-myeon area of Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do.

On the 11th, Hwaseong City held the 'Renewable Energy Convergence Support Project Consortium Agreement Ceremony' at Hwaseong Sports Complex to promote the 2025 Renewable Energy Convergence Support Project.

At the Renewable Energy Convergence Support Project Agreement Ceremony, Jaehun Jeong (left), Director of Geochang Co., Ltd., and Taeyeol Park, Head of the Renewable Energy Division of Hwaseong City, are holding up the agreement document. Photo by Hwaseong City

The consortium, led by Hwaseong City as the main institution, consists of the Korea Energy Agency Renewable Energy Center (responsible institution), Geochang Co., Ltd., Comprehensive Groundwater Development Co., Ltd., Ecoenergis Co., Ltd., Herit Co., Ltd., Dongjin Co., Ltd., and Songsan-myeon.

This renewable energy project is the third largest support project in Gyeonggi-do. Accordingly, the consortium plans to install facilities within this year at Hwaseong Songsan Technopark General Industrial Complex and nearby villages, including ▲120 solar power sites (773 kW) ▲32 geothermal sites (560 kW) ▲12 solar thermal sites (206㎡).

Once the installation is completed, it is expected to produce 1,775.238 MWh of electricity annually, which can replace 340.84 toe (tons of oil equivalent) of fossil energy, the city explained.

The project involves a total investment of 2.769 billion KRW, including 1.02 billion KRW in national funds secured through the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's '2025 Renewable Energy Supply Convergence Support Project' public contest last December, 1.195 billion KRW in city funds, and 554 million KRW in private investment.

According to the agreement, each institution will proceed with design services within this month, and from next month, the institutions responsible for each facility will install renewable energy facilities for applying residents and businesses.

Park Tae-yeol, head of Hwaseong City's Renewable Energy Division, stated, "This project was promoted to support the establishment of an eco-friendly industrial complex and renewable energy facilities suited to the characteristics of the industrial complex's surrounding areas," adding, "It will expand the distributed power system to establish an energy self-reliance foundation and realize carbon neutrality through greenhouse gas reduction."

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