Gyeonggi Province (Governor Kim Dong-yeon) announced on the 14th that it had accomplished the development of a 360 kW solar energy generation facility on the rooftop of the northern office constructing and an idle lot within the parking zone.

This facility was installed in cooperation with a neighborhood residents' cooperative, and is the primary solar energy plant built after the Gyeonggi Province public institution RE100 declaration in February last yr. Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Dong-yeon visited the solar energy plant installed within the Northern Government Complex and inspected its operation status.

Governor Kim Dong-yeon said, “It’s meaningful that the primary solar energy plant was installed within the northern Gyeonggi Province constructing after the declaration of Gyeonggi RE100. “It is very meaningful since the residents of the province voluntarily participated,” he said. “We promised that each one electricity utilized by public institutions in Gyeonggi-do will probably be produced from renewable energy by 2026, and I’m very glad to be the primary metropolitan government to practice RE100 in the general public sector.” .

Gyeonggi Province's northern office announced in June last yr that it might expand the solar energy generation facility within the constructing from the present 84.4kW to 886.5kW by 2024 to understand the 'Gyeonggi RE100' vision. The newly built solar energy plant is the primary achievement because the announcement of plans to expand power generation facilities.

Gyeonggi Province installed a 360 kW solar energy generation facility on the rooftop of the essential constructing and annex of the Northern Government Constructing, the rooftop of the Health and Environment Research Constructing, and the official vehicle parking zone, and carried out a project involving citizen participation to construct public consensus on Gyeonggi Province's RE100 policy.

Through a public contest, three cooperatives, Gyeonggi Energy Cooperative, Uijeongbu Natural Energy Cooperative, and Dongducheon Natural Energy Cooperative, were chosen and promoted the development of an influence plant. These cooperatives are social economy organizations through which about 500 residents, including residents of Uijeongbu and Dongducheon, take part in social contribution activities similar to providing a portion of power plant profits to the energy poor.

This project is a business model through which the province discovers idle land and leases it to a cooperative, and the cooperative invests funds invested by residents in a renewable energy production project to share development profits with residents. By investing a complete of 690 million won, the cooperative expects to find a way to share profits of about 110 million won annually with its members for no less than 20 years.

The province is a project to construct an influence plant with residents participating within the Northern Government Complex. ▲Not a penny of the residents' tax money is spent because it is a business model without financial input from Gyeonggi Province, and ▲Using idle public land, it is feasible to rent it out to residents at a low price and share stable solar energy generation profits. It is alleged that there are effects similar to ▲supporting the RE100 implementation of firms in urgent need of worldwide RE100 implementation with the facility produced at the facility plant, ▲using land rental profits in Gyeonggi-do to support the energy underprivileged, and reinvesting within the expansion of renewable energy.

Through this solar energy generation project, 486,180 kWh of electricity will probably be produced annually, which is sufficient to improve the 16% power self-sufficiency rate of the essential constructing and annex of the northern constructing, where about 1,000 people work. Moreover, through the provision of eco-friendly renewable energy, the greenhouse gas reduction effect of 220 tons, akin to planting 93,617 pine trees every yr, may be achieved. Starting with the development of a solar energy plant on the Northern Government Constructing, Gyeonggi Province plans to put in solar panels on idle land similar to the rooftops and parking a number of all 70 government buildings owned by 28 affiliated public institutions.

As well as, inside the first half of this yr, we plan to conduct an intensive survey of all public lands owned by provinces, cities, and counties to find all sites where solar energy generation facilities may be installed and utilize these to expand the provision of renewable energy.

For future projects, Gyeonggi will develop an open platform where anyone within the province can easily take part in the business online, present it as a representative diffusion model for practicing carbon-neutral living, and supply the profits from power generation to participating residents, creating social value through public-private win-win cooperation. I plan to depart.

Previously, Governor Kim Dong-yeon announced in a speech on the Gyeonggi Provincial Council in February last yr that he would achieve RE100 for Gyeonggi-do public institutions inside his term.

Gyeonggi RE100 is conducted in 4 areas: public, corporate, local residents, and industry. In the company sector, the primary 'Gyeonggi RE100' industrial complex, which produces electricity by mandating the installation of latest and renewable energy power generation facilities on the roofs of business complexes and idle sites, is scheduled to be created in Hwaseong City, and within the provincial sector, the '100,000 households project for electricity independence' , ‘Creation of an energy opportunity income village’ is being promoted.

Reporter Gong Da-young local@aitimes.com