The 2nd meeting of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy to promote cooperation in offshore wind conference and announced the “promotion of offshore wind plan”, plan to 2019, invested a total of 9.259 trillion won (now the won-dollar exchange rate was about 1112:1) in Korea Southwest waters up to 2,500 MW wind power generation capacity-building offshore wind industry base in order to advance to seize the global offshore wind power market, the Korea into the world’s top three offshore wind powers.

The wind power base construction plan is divided into three projects. A project for the 2011 to 2013, plans to invest one hundred million won 6,036 domestic scale building 100MW offshore wind turbine test site for the accumulation of wind power group to run the relevant experience. Phase II in 2016, plans to invest 3.0254 trillion won will test the base’s power generation capacity to expand to 900MW, Phase III to invest 5.63 trillion won in 2019, the installation of 300 wind turbines 5MW level, thus bringing the total generating capacity of 2,500 MW. Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy said the person, “although South Korea’s offshore wind generators industry is still in its infancy, but in the shipbuilding, offshore platforms, construction, electrical and other related industries are highly competitive, so seize the offshore wind industry, the global market great hope. “

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