Thursday, August 1st, 2013
SEOUL, KOREA - Korea's largest polysilocon maker OCI has built a 5-megawatt solar power plant in Amsa-dong in the eastern part of Seoul.
The company held on July 30 a completion ceremony at the Amsa Arisu Water Filtration Center with dignitaries including Park Won-soon, Seoul City mayor, Kim Jeongwook, chief director of non-governmental organization Energy & Peace, and Kim Sangyeol, vice chairman of OCI, in attendance.
The Amsa Plant is the first solar power plant built as agreed by a pact among the three parties to construct solar power facilities with a total capacity of 100 megawatts. The plant is built on a 75,000-square-meter site of the Water Filtration Center and generate 6 GWh of electricity a year from 19,700 solar panels, which is enough to supply power for 1,850 households. All electricity generated here will be sold to Korea Southern Power Co.
Kim Sangyeol, OCI vice chairman, said, "The Amsa Solar Power Plant is the first such facility built by us in Korea. We will build the same kind of facilities all across the country including 100 megawatts in the Seoul Metropolitan City area and 400 megawatts in the whole country."
