KEPCO KDN is contributing to the stable operation of the power grid around the country by providing IC total services ranging from power transmission to transformation, distribution, and sales. The power company is also spearheading a new national energy industry paradigm shift by securing leading capabilities in the smart grid sector. It is accelerating efforts to live up to its vision as a public energy entity leading smart grids through creativity and convergence by exploring overseas markets based on its prominent technology capabilities the company has accumulated in Korea.
KEPCO KDN is putting into practice quality management tenets as a top energy ICT service provider by setting two action guidelines strengthening of global quality competitiveness and capabilities to provide customer values to realize its value and establishing a master plan for quality management. Since introducing the quality management system ISO 9001, the power company has been strengthening quality management activities. KEPCO KDN has been certified with such international quality standards certification systems as IOS/IEC 20000, 27001, and CMMI.
KEPCO KDN made it onto the list of ¡°2017 Excellent Quality Competitiveness Enterprises¡± and was selected as one of ¡°Excellent Quality Service Companies¡± for several consecutive years. In particular, KEPCO KDN is stepping on the gas to explore new businesses, including eco-friendly energy ICT and security businesses.
KEPCO KDN is accelerating efforts to explore new energy businesses as future growth engines and tap such new ICT convergence technology sectors as big data and information security. The moves will align it with the inauguration of the Post 2030 Climate Change Regime in accordance with the Paris Agreement in 2015 and the new government¡¯s energy policy shift.
Making the most of the accumulated energy ICT technologies, the power company has been contributing to the development of eco-friendly energy industries by having successfully built a Hitachi photovoltaic power facility in Japan and a micro grid operation system in Canada.
Of late, KEPCO KDN has been recognized for its technology prowess abroad. The power company successfully completed the Power Development and Reform Program (R-ADPRP) in Kerala, India. The power company has been implementing information security projects at the Cyber Security Center under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) based on the accumulated security business experiences and operational knowhow for a decade to promote the national development through stabilization of security risks. These prominent outcomes have led to KEPCO KDN¡¯s ability to obtain an ¡°A¡± grade in a government management evaluation of public entities. The power company is forecast to log more than 600 billion won in sales this year for the first time.
KEPCO KDN is devoting itself to growing into a global energy ICT public entity through endless quality management activities and quality competitiveness innovation, thus contributing to stabilizing the Korean energy industry and industrial development.
Global Energy ICT Public Entity
Acting KEPCO KDN President Lim Soo-kyung said, ¡°KEPCO KDN, an energy ICT company specializing in eco-friendly energy ICT total services, has been contributing to the development of the national economy through the advancing of the Korean power industry. ¡°In particular, we¡¯re leading Korean and foreign eco-friendly energy industries by nurturing new energy businesses as future growth engines and building photovoltaic power plants while tapping overseas power energy markets.¡±
The power company is also concentrating on information security projects to stabilize the national energy industry by building information security systems and operation systems in the energy industry recently, she added.