The 400 MW solar complex, scheduled for completion in 2028, is expected to supply 529 GWh of electricity annually. The project will include a 10 MW agrivoltaics array.
A groundbreaking ceremony for South Korea’s largest solar complex to date will take place tomorrow (August 7).
The 400 MW Haenam solar power complex, to be located in the south of the country, will be built on approximately 4.79 million square metres of idle land, including reclaimed saline land. Earlier this year, Korea South-East Power Co. (KOEN) was selected as the preferred engineering, procurement and construction bidder for the project.
The site is expected to be completed in 2028. Once operational, it will supply 529 GWh of electricity annually – equivalent to the consumption of around 130,000 Korean households – to companies and industrial complexes that have adopted 100% renewable energy targets.
South Korea’s Minister of Climate, Energy and Environment, Kim Sung-hwan, commented that the project forms part of the ministry’s plan to lower power generation costs by expanding the supply of large-scale renewable energy projects on idle sites of land.
