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According to Yonhap News,
The foundation to turn Gwangju into an energy self-sufficient city by 2045 is gradually being laid out through public-private cooperation.
Gwangju city said on September 20 that the city, education office, five autonomous districts and civic society announced ‘Joint Declaration of Gwangju Community Climate Crisis Emergency Status’ in August last year.
In the following month, the Gwangju City Council formed a special committee for the Green New Deal, and the 'Carbon Neutral Promotion Committee', a public-private cooperative governance, was launched February.
In April, a 274 kW solar power plant started operation on the rooftop of Bityeoulchae Apartment in Nongseong-dong, Seo-gu.
It is the first power plant built through collaboration between citizens and public organizations.
The Cooperative raised KRW 200 million through citizen funding, and Gwangju Techno Park and Gwangju Metropolitan Corporation each invested KRW 400 million, and the revenues from power generation will be reinvested in building citizens’ solar power plant.
Gwangju-si will support the installation of a total 1,200 kW citizens’ solar power plant this year through public competition.
The 'Energy Conversion Village Base Center', which encourages energy conversion movement in everyday life, has also opened every five autonomous districts.
Gwangju is also pushing for the energy convergence industry, linking electricity trading with artificial intelligence (AI), which the city is fostering intensively.
Gwangju has been developing an electricity trading model that sells the ESS of electricity generated from solar power in 2.5 square kilometers of the High Tech Science Industrial Complex since November last year.
Companies and institutions that are participating in the '2030 Enterprise RE100 Promotion Council' are planned to have 100% of their electricity usage comes from renewable energy by 2030.
Gwangju’s mayor said “we have come a long way in transition to eco-friendly city in a short period of about a year,” adding “we will turn Gwangju into a safe eco-friendly clean city by responding to climate crisis through energy transition.”
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Source:Yonhap News (September 20, 2021)
** This article was translated from Korean.