Mandatory consortium with public enterprise in large-scale wind power in Jeju Island in Korea

  • Jeju Province will identify the appropriate sites for wind development
  • Wind developers should establish consortium with Jeju Energy Corporation //

The Jeju Province announced on the 11th that it has revised and supplemented the 'Public Led 2.0 Wind Power Development Plan Improvement (Draft)' by collecting opinions from residents and experts.


The plan is to change the way of participation through the division of roles between Jeju Island and the Jeju Energy Corporation, and to further strengthen publicity in the entire process from development to operation, while also securing project speed. 

First of all, for large-scale wind power development (20 MW or more (land) and 50 MW or more (offshore)), it was decided to pre-discover suitable locations for wind power resource development in the public in consideration of the site environment. 

If Jeju Island identifies potential development locations through the establishment of a five-year comprehensive wind power plan, the Jeju Energy Corporation, designated as a public management organization for wind power resources, will establish a project implementation plan, form a consortium with companies that want to develop the project after prior public review, directly participate in the entire development process, and manage it so that it can be implemented as planned.

Initially, Jeju Island's proposal was to allow private business applicants to select the development locations. This raised concerns about damaging publicity and making it difficult to do business, and since then, experts and residents have gathered opinions on how to strengthen the public's ability to manage wind resources to secure publicity and increase speed. 

In addition, it was decided to speed up the development by reducing the burden on the capital and human resource limitations of Jeju Energy Corporation by advancing the business competition stage, which was held after the designation of the district, to the beginning of the project. 

For small-scale wind power development in villages with a demand for wind power development, the plan is to allow villages that want to develop wind power to submit a request for preliminary review of the project to Jeju Island, and after reviewing the appropriateness, the Wind Power Project Review Committee will qualify the candidates for wind power development.

Jeju Island expects the management organization to secure the acceptability of private operators and residents from the project development planning stage, and to respond jointly so that a consensus can be formed between the residents of the project area and neighboring villages. 

To support the public-led 2.0 wind power development plan, Jeju Province has proposed the Ordinance Draft, and will receive comments until the 30th of this month. After the Ordinance revision process, the Province plans to carry out follow-up procedures such as preparing a detailed action plan.

"We have supplemented the public-led 2.0 wind power development plan by prioritizing the protection of Jeju's environmental values and the reflection of residents' voices," said Governor Oh Young-hoon. "We will manage wind power development profits to be returned to residents and villages, and we will also secure publicity for solar power generation in the future so that environmental and economic benefits flow back to the residents' society."

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  • This article is translated into English by DeepL, and partly edited and summarized by Kimoo Heo in Korea, https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimoo-heo-49395557/


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