Korea Midland Power (KOMIPO) held a ceremony to dedicate the Gubbaberget wind farm in Sweden on July 4.
The project is the third KOMIPO has implemented in Europe.
Among those on hand at the event were about 70 people, including representatives from Korean stakeholders, European business companies and raw materials and equipment suppliers.
KOMIPO has been hitting the gas to explore overseas renewable energy markets under the vision “Energy Company Unfurling the Future with Eco-friendliness.”
The power company’s achievements include successfully dedicating two wind farms and a photovoltaic power farm in Europe by leveraging its experience and expertise in construction and operation management.
The latest project involves a wind farm complex with a combined capacity of 74.4MW, built at a cost of about 135 billion won in Gävleborg County, central Sweden.
It is a successful example of the “Team Korea” approach, in which KOMIPO led by attracting Korean investors, and Korean bank creditors participated on top of the use of Korean-made raw materials and equipment worth 13 billion won.
The Gubbaberget wind farm is outfitted with 12 turbines, each with a power generation capacity of 6.2 MW, the most among the world’s on-land wind farms.
Korea Midland
Power Co. has an inaugural meeting for a project to
implement an R&D task on an ultra-super critical pulverized coal power
plant through hydride co-firing at the Shinboryeong Power Complex headquarters
in Boryeong, Chungcheongnam-do, on June 19.
KOMIPO Teams Up to Carry Out R&D on USC, Pulverized Coal Power Plant
President Kim says ‘KOMIPO will do its utmost to spearhead efforts to reinvigorate the hydrogen economy through the hydride co-firing technology development’
Korea Midland Power Co. (KOMIPO) held an inaugural meeting for a project to implement R&D on an ultra-super critical pulverized coal power plant through hydride co-firing, at the Shinboryeong Power Complex headquarters in Boryeong, Chungcheongnam-do, on June 19.
Among those on hand at the meeting were senior R&D officials from 12 institutions, including KOMIPO, other power companies, burner makers, research institutes and universities which have been participating.
The participants discussed plans to achieve the goal of co-firing hydride 20 percent at an USC-class pulverized coal power plant.
The latest R&D task will involve the development of a co-firing burner, boiler retrofit design and other challenging tasks.
It is designed to comply with the government’s carbon neutrality policies and reinvigorate the hydrogen economy.
The task will target one unit each from Shinboryeong and Dangjin power complex headquarters.
In particular, the Shinboryeong Power Complex headquarters takes on significance as it was the nation’s first USC-class power plant built with homegrown technologies.
KOMIPO plans to expand technology development, such as increasing the co-firing rate on a gradual basis.
There are 17 USC-class power units with a combined capacity of 16.4Gw in operation in Korea. If they are converted at a 20 percent hydride co-firing technology, they would have an effect of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 13.5 million tons.
The 20 percent hydride co-firing technology is expected to serve as a game changer since it will account for 12 percent of the transition sector compared to the national determined contribution (NDC).
KOMIPO has been pushing ahead with a plan to convert an existing coal-fired power complex into a non-coal power plant.
The power company is seeking to build a no-carbon energy transition cluster focusing on major tasks, such as hydrogen production, hydride co-firing technology development and attracting a hydrogen gas turbine testing and evaluation center.
KOMIPO President Kim Ho- bin said, “The development of technologies designed to cope with new paradigm shifts of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and energy transition is essential, and KOMIPO will do its utmost to spearhead efforts to reinvigorate the hydrogen economy through the hydride co-firing technology development.”
Park Young-gyu, head of the Technology
Safety Division at KOMIPO and Lim Kwan-sup, chief of the Plant Business
Division at Hyundai Engineering participate in a ceremony to sign an MOU on the
production of hydrogen using electrolysis at Hyundai Engineering headquarters
on June 9. (Photo: Hyundai Engineering)
KOMIPO Collaborates with Hyundai Engineering to Produce Hydrogen Using Electrolysis
Korea Midland Power Co. struck an MOU with Hyundai Engineering on the production of hydrogen using electrolysis to achieve carbon neutrality of the power industry and lead efforts to reinvigorate the hydrogen economy.
Among those on hand at a ceremony to sign the deal on June 9 at Hyundai Engineering headquarters were Park Young-gyu, head of the Technology Safety Division at KOMIPO and Lim Kwan-sup, chief of the Plant Business Division at Hyundai Engineering.
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