Member of National Assembly of Korea proposed Farming Solar Act

A bill was proposed for the mixed use of farming and solar generation //


A bill has been proposed in the National Assembly that would allow farmers to combine farming and solar power generation. Due to the mountainous and narrow nature of the country, it is inevitable to utilize agricultural land to expand solar power generation, but the current law does not allow crop cultivation and solar business on the same farmland.

Yoon Jun-byung, a member of the National Assembly, said he has introduced a bill to amend the Agricultural Land Act. The bill includes the concept of "mixed use of farmland," which is the basis for installing agricultural solar on farmland. However, mixed use is only allowed on self-protected farmland (farmland owned by the farmer) that is not designated as an agricultural promotion zone or on farmland in an agricultural promotion zone that is directly operated by a village community.

According to Yoon, farm-based solar projects "can simultaneously produce farming and eco-friendly renewable energy, so it is necessary to actively encourage them to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050."

Until now, due to the lack of legislation on farm-based solar, pilot projects have been promoted through farmland dedication and temporary use permits for other uses. In response, Yoon proposed the concept of 'mixed use of farmland' as a basis for using agricultural land for agricultural solar, which is different from the exclusive use of agricultural land and temporary use of agricultural land.

Farm-based solar, which involves installing solar power plants while cultivating crops, is considered an alternative to increase renewable energy generation on a small land area. According to a policy report released in 2021 by the Korea Environment Research Institute (KERI), if only 5% of the country's total agricultural land area as of 2019 was used for farming, about 34 GW of power plants could be built. This is enough to generate enough electricity to power the homes of about 48 million people, more than 90% of the country's total population, for a year.

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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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